What I believed was a strong statement he made was that he believed that adults should have more trust in the youth. After all the youth is the future and they deserve to have the trust of the older generations. That way instead of having to take the older generation's advances, we are able to create our own. We would end up developing technology, but it is only for our well-being.
Plus, technology is developing, however, it will not be achieved at an incredibly ridiculous speed. We will be able to keep up with the pace and technology won't be able to take over all of us. We will have to live by the motto, "Program or be Programmed". In that case, if we weaken our knowledge of technology, we will get to a point of confusion like that of the older people nowadays. They are often confused or misled by the advanced technologies because they allowed it to overpower them. If we don't learn now while we can, we may be the subject/experiment to the technology. Therefor, we'd be controlled by a cold, metal machine instead of controlling it.
Roy Christopher's points made an impact on me because he calmed down my worries of being left behind by the technologies that are being quickly developed. Although, I still believe that a world without such a great technological success would be a world of more intelligent people. The people would have to do everything for themselves and learn more about life as a human being, unlike when you go online and allow the computer to learn more about you.
Glad to hear the talk was a positive experience. In general, more information leads to more confidence, which leads to less worry. How can you and your peers' online activity earn the trust of older generations?
ReplyDeleteI think that in order to gain the older generation's trust we need to earn it. By earn it I mean to not do anything that would raise questions of our objective of using the internet and advanced technologies.
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