Top ten ways technology has changed the way we live.

How has technology changed the way we live? The article Capturing Changes In The Way We Connect by writer Marcelo Gleiser talks about how technology has changed how we do everyday life. I found ten statements found in the article which I found were the most interesting and most changed how the article is viewed.

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So how do you think technology will improve or make the future worse?

#1 - The author talks about how we naturally look for ways to communicate and talk to other people, with the invention of portable ways to talk to others through many social aesthetics. We can see how humans want to connect with others, it’s a part of our lives and it was made incredibly more easy in just a few decades.

#2 - Marcelo Gleiser talks about social connections being illucinations, saying that conversations we have aren’t as real as we think we are, as having real conversations without machines is how we should connect. He’s saying we are missing a ‘true connection’ rather than a real one.

#3 - The Author continues on this of how we are missing out on things that we used to do in everyday lives, sending letters to friends, we miss out on ‘real connections’. I think this is silly to think after having phones, which basically makes sending letters 10x more easier through our phones.

#4 - Marcelo Gleiser later says that easy solutions like calling a taxi has been made much easier to do and would probably live on for decades to come.

#5 -  Gleiser says that with the growing numbers of applications helping us with every-day problems is making phone users spend more time on their phones at a very high rate.

#6 - Gleiser says that the continuing support for phones is a great thing, but can be turned around if the definition of ‘connection’ is lost through many social concepts created through phone applications.

#7 - At the beginning of the article Gleiser says that digital education can be very important as it can help the way we teach children.

#8 - Gleiser mentions that art is a growing part of our lives, saying that it can connect to many people and with the support of technology art can be appreciated from all types of people. He says that art can be critiqued by all spectrums and be seen by many.

#9 - Later said is that technology should be shown how we should see the world and experience it, instead of technology being the experience. Technology should be part of our lives, not just our lives.

#10 - Gleiser attributes by saying that an unknown power such as constantly connecting to people will soon be universal in the way we live.