{"id":874,"date":"2021-09-30T11:20:01","date_gmt":"2021-09-30T15:20:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/?p=874"},"modified":"2021-09-30T11:20:01","modified_gmt":"2021-09-30T15:20:01","slug":"alvin-technology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/2021\/09\/30\/alvin-technology\/","title":{"rendered":"Alvin -Technology"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Technology in general can be considered as one of the few inventions that has led to generational global civilization, cultural shifts and many other aspects in the last few centuries. But as the reading puts it bluntly, the relationship between technology and society is somehow biased with the only considerations being the \u201cthe measure of progress and promise of a good life\u201d ignoring the true reasons why these technologies were formed in the first place and the impacts on society . Power, profit and other opportunistic intentions run these so-called life changing technologies so a question of technology and\u00a0 true reality is posed.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Despite the good that technology brings to the table, we often ignore or disregard the negative impacts of technology given that it is a huge part of modern society and people need to use it on a daily basis which makes this a very difficult topic in terms of passing on the knowledge of technology. An example can be tech companies like Facebook or Instagram\u00a0 being responsible for reducing human attention spans and reducing face to face interactions on a global level but have also at the same time made communication much easier than it has ever been.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">It all comes down to the concept of human-technology interaction and if we the consumers of this technology can be aware of the outcomes that may occur through this interaction and the media has ironically played its role in this by producing shows like black mirror on Netflix that are all about the detriments of technology now and in the future.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Technology in general can be considered as one of the few inventions that has led to generational global civilization, cultural shifts and many other aspects in the last few centuries. But as the reading puts it bluntly, the relationship between technology and society is somehow biased with the only considerations being the \u201cthe measure of progress and promise of a&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/2021\/09\/30\/alvin-technology\/\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5392,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[811],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-874","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/874","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5392"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=874"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/874\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":875,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/874\/revisions\/875"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}