Sunday, September 4, 2011

Technology is made creatively, but used simply

Technology has always had a positive impact on me. It has majorly influenced the way I think about the world and my life. It has made me think with more creativity and inventiveness. Every time I see something that makes me say, "Holy crap! We can do that?!" I'm always eager to find out how it works and how its made. Most of the stuff that makes me say this isn't simply created either. iPods, iPhones, TVs, and computers require an elaborate and creative person to make them so whenever I see this technology I always try to learn how it was made so that I can use that same creative process the engineers used in my life. Even more beneficial is that this technology has granted me the capability of finding out how such things are made. 30 years ago if you wanted to research something you had to walk to the library, find a book on it, hope that book satisfied your curiosity, and walk back to your house and would take about 2 hours. Now, a quick Google search on my iPhone shows me the schematics for a Lexus car, the design of the Duomo of Florence, or how the Large Hadron Collider works. The rise of technology in my generation has made information so widely available and easily accessible to the average person that we now have the ability to get any type of information on anything from investing to cultural history to global news. Without technology I wouldn't be able to absorb the creative process that engineers use to make Space Shuttles and wouldn't even be able to search how a Space Shuttle works in the first place. For me, technology has been a teacher, a textbook, and a source of creativity that I can use for anything, anywhere, at anytime. So yeah, I would say that technology has made a majorly positive impact on me.

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