Smartphones

                                         Smartphones

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I think one of the greatest and the worst technologies made in the 21st century is smart phones. I have mixed feelings with them, they can help in everyday life. Also you can just get stuck on them every second of your life, because they offer so much to them.  I find it interesting how many other technologies influenced the creation of the smart phone.

I would say the first thing that influenced the smartphone is easy to guess the phone. At the base of the smartphone is the phone itself. The phone was created to just keep in contact with other people. The phone made it a lot faster to keep in contact with other people. Before, the phone you would either have to use the mail or you could use a telegraph. Just to have instant contact for the first time must have been amazing.

Then the cell phone came out, I think that would be one of the other biggest influences to the smart phone. At first I think cell phones were just kind of a novelty for the rich. They were in no way practical at all at first. The car phone would seem more practical in my eyes for the time. The first cell phones are like carrying around a huge old laptop to today’s standards. If it takes a whole briefcase, and it weighs 25 pounds then I think it is not practical. Over time they got better and smaller, making them more user friendly. Smartphones are mobile so it would make sense that the cell phone would have influenced the smart phone.

I would say the internet would be the final major influence on the smart phone. Almost every single thing you can do on the internet you can now do on your phone. The internet in the beginning was very limiting with not everyone having a personal computer or the skills to use the internet. It was sometimes challenging for people just to pick it up and being able to use the internet for the first time, because of the user interface. Very quickly it got better and better, and now I can’t imagine not having the internet. All most everything that we all do today has the internet involved with it one way or another.

What I think the smartphone will influence of future technologies would be fully integrated life with technology. Meaning that somehow it would become use in some way or another. I think we would get it implanted or somehow we would want to be fused with technology to extend are life and capabilities. Is this a good thing, yes and no like everything else in life? I feel like it maybe a little scary at first, (the doomsday people). Overall, I think it would be perfectly fine in a way, meaning it would not really hurt anyone. Here’s the problem I would find with it one, I think we would lose more personal contact with other people. Second, I think we would loss most if not all contact with nature. Many people now do not like going out into nature and being one with the earth. I feel like being 100 percent integrated with the network would remove the last bit of being able to connect with nature.

Overall, I’m not scared of human progress like some people are. I hope for change all the time in technology, but in that pursuit we should still remember our past. I feel like this keeps us balanced in life, and all life is a balancing act.