Can we imagine a world without technology? How lost are we gonna be? Before the advent of smartphones, we knew at least 15 phone numbers by heart. But now we have our own numbers saved up in our phones. This is how technology dependent we are. One small glitch, it’s all chaotic after. With the advent of technology, knowledge has also got a definite revamp. Before, we had to go through tons of library books for information.
Now, it’s all a click away. In a span of seconds, we have everything under the sun on tap of a finger. In this blog, it’s an initiation of how well knowledge has been influenced by technology and its affect in our day to day lives.
Evolution Of Technology
It was 3.3 million years ago, the first advancement of technology took place in the form of tools.
From then, we came across milestones of advancements like irrigation, steam engines, telephone, automobile, computer, internet and up till replacing us itself through artificial intelligence. This has been a quite a ride. We could see how knowledge helped technology to gradually come across so many changes over a period of time.
A beginner’s idea through refined understanding of available resources helped us in inventing things that changed the face of the world. If we see the timeline of turn of events, we gradually see how relied we are technology these days, tuning out from it or claiming freedom from the fast-pacing world is next to impossible.
Let us take a look at the findings that has made human lives easier with the help of knowledge and technology.
With respect to knowledge, the most effective invention will be Internet. Internet is that something which has been under evolution all these years. But we still can name Vinton Cerf and Bob Kahn are credited with inventing the Internet communication we use today. The video gets us into the loop of how internet has become the relevant existence of the globe.
Knowledge And Technology in framework: Scope
Technology is a lifesaver. We can’t think of an existence without being technologically assisted. With advent of technology, everything is available at a stone’s throw. It has enhanced the standard of living and helped people around the globe to find a better stature. When we got technically equipped, we started having efficient production and which in turn helped to bring down the cost of production.
Knowledge or understanding of optimum utilization of resources makes us find ways in which we could lessen the expenses.
The world’s best car manufacturer has a way to tell how technology has helped them to produce quality cars with cheaper cost of production.
Knowledge questions
In what sense, if any, can a machine be said to know something?
Search engines has helped us attain knowledge about anything under the earth with just a click away. As I said earlier, under knowledge the most efficient invention will go for Internet. When compared to the day where books were the prime source of information, things were pretty much erratic as finding books was tedious and time-consuming process and to say it was expensive as well.
With influx of Google and such other search engines it has become easier to have an idea about things happening around us. It has made us global citizens and in pursuit of understanding things and events which are happening even in the outer space.
Knowledge And Technology in Framework: Methods and Tools
Knowledge questions
How do the tools that we use shape the knowledge that we produce?
Remember the time when we studied about how the deserts never used to get rain and how temperatures are definitely over the board and making life difficult for the residents. With technological and knowledge advancements, initiating rain is possible in arid areas and it is called cloud seeding. This makes agricultural activities possible in very dry areas as well. This gives light to the fact that weather which is an uncontrollable can be controlled in the coming few years.
A peek into the sports industry shows us how they tackled the issue of lactic acid with the help of technology. Lactic acid is that substance which is produced in the muscles while training due to lack of oxygen formation. This leads to constant fatigue, tiredness and even unconsciousness. Up till date it was impossible to measure the formation in real time. The University of Massachusetts has formulated a device to help sportspersons in this gray area. When knowledge and technology combine together there is rise of new systems.
From using birds as communication devices, we have come a head way with communication. We have phones which are mini computers and under development for many other intricate uses. Smartphones has replaced calculators, music system, cameras, voice recorders and so on. There has been an extensive development in this area where the global communication has become easier and connecting people all over the globe a child’s thing. Let’s look into evolution of communication over the years.
We could go on and on over how knowledge and technology has made our life on earth simple and less exhausting over the years but are we sure we aren’t we closing out and being relying on such development’s way too much. Let us look further onto how influenced and controlled we are by these inventions.
Knowledge And Technology in Framework: Ethics
Kids these days are living around in an environment of gadgets. When learning has been limited to homes due to Covid-19, there’s an amplified use for knowledge and technology to come together. In turn their survival depends on these e-devices (thanks to us). Making them to do daily things require diverting their attention to a smartphone or an iPad whether it is eating or bathing. I could very well say that they have better handling capacity when it comes taking on these devices.
Content creators are now targeting and influencing kids over this addiction of theirs. In the recent past, adult content was infiltrated through a very famous cartoon show and left the world baffled on how insensitive internet can get.
Knowledge questions
To what extent have technological developments led to an increase in data being collected without people’s consent or when they are unaware that it is being collected?
Privacy is a scam nowadays. Knowledge and technology have taken control over us and is very well taking up the front seat in our lives. We tend to stress the need for privacy and we ourselves fall prey for devices that compromise the same notion.
What an irony right? In a news report by LADBible, an online news report portal, says the story of a mum who got petrified when Amazon Echo Dot asked her to kill herself.
The homes are now a smart space. From the bed to tv to the robotic cleaning machine everything powers up with snap of a button. We give these smart things information on everything about our life, a brilliant hacker is able to get all what they need without any hassle. The kind of power i.e., knowledge and technology that we are giving these devices by expecting to make our chores easier is indeed a nightmare in disguise. And we have to start acting on it before it’s too late.
When we talk about ethics and technology, we can move into an interesting topic of sex robots. There’s lot of contention going on this as to whether to ban these sex tech innovations. Sex robots are usually tallied out with sex toys but sex robots are more equipped and trained enough to quantify the emotional algorithm of the humans they are involved with. The question of ethics rises when how the data collected by these sex robots are kept in by the companies who manufacture and maintain them.
Knowledge and Technology in Framework: Perspective
Knowledge questions
How has technology had an impact on how we browse, search and filter data and information?
Information is the source of life. We need knowledge about lot many things to survive in this planet. Being ignorant about the series of occurrences around us is considered the worst possible trait. In this new age, knowledge and technology with respect to gathering up information is a very easy task. But have you ever thought the authenticity of the news or information we get? We seldom do a fact check on the information and read probably only a one side of a story and share it to the masses.
As we have lot of enlightenment in our hands we never think of the source of the same. We tend to believe everything that we find on Internet is true. But this thought process has caused worse than good.
When engineer turned artist Jiabao Li talks about how technology involves in framing our perspectives of the things we communicate in our surroundings. She augments human sensations with her creations and tries to address impact of technology on one’s perceptions, identity and emotion. She puts forward the fact that how social media projects a biased opinion and we blindly follow it. Through, innovated means of artistical representation she shows how influenced we are because of the one-side projections all over the world.
When there is an exaggerated vigor to make everything around easily accessible, it in turn gives out an opportunity to give out meaningless inventions. Seldom do we think about how compromising these inventions can be on a later date.
When knowledge and technology come hand in hand it indeed provides more light into many sectors around the world. It has increased the accessibility we had which was insufficient a decade before. But through with this knowledge, we are also facing extreme situations in which people are not able to stay in their jobs as they are easily replaced by machines and robots.
Slowly, we are being put into danger by the extreme use of technology. Inventions and technological advancements are definitely required to push us through. Meanwhile, the risk we take without analyzing the impact of the same that might have on us in a future date is terrifying. Hence, knowledge and technology are the perfect piece to go together as critical analysis of the crux is required to imbibe new technologies into the world.
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