Nowadays, agency is everywhere in our life. Agency and people are interdependent. Agency rely on the information people search for, and people need agencies to help them achieve their goals in a short time. That is why many applications today have personalized services. As the reading Designing Agentive Technology: Al that works for people mentioned, “you can even say that an agent is the ultimate expression of goal-focused design thinking because it gets users to their goals with the least effort possible.” For example, when we want to buy clothes from amazon, we just need to type the keyword. Then the searching agency will help you to find the one you like according to the data it collects from your search records. Also, like much listening software has personalized services. It will recommend you new pieces of music every day according to the music you download and your personal collections. Agency is like people’s subconscious minds. It helps us with our goals in our lives but minimizes the effort it takes to get there. However, I think agency also will let people’s ability to proactively search for information. Since they also prepare all information for people, people may develop a dependency on them. However, with the development of technology and agencies, they have already become part of our life. Therefore, It is important for us to use agencies appropriately.
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I think that the dependency on technological agencies is a real threat to human advancements because it limits creativity and exploration as people rely too much on agencies. I also think that people should have complete awareness about how these agencies influence their lives be it positively for example in the your case of the amazon purchases or negatively through the dependency.
I completely agree with your statement that “Agency is like people’s subconscious minds”. Technology has become so advanced in our modern day world, that it helps us firstly when we do not expect it, as well as when we need it most. I think that over time we have gotten very dependent on technology as a resource, but at the same time, it has increased our efficiency tremendously. While we do need awareness as Alvin mentioned in his reply comment, I think as a whole we have adapted to the new pace of information recall. It is now all dependent on our awareness and acceptance when a delay occurs.