Technology: High Gratification, Low Patience

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Benjamin Franklin once said, “He that can have patience can have what he will”. But, is patience really necessary in today’s society? In recent years, the younger of us have grown up without the need for patience. We now live in a hyperconnected world we can process data, download a song, search a vast database for virtually unlimited information, send a message, or even order pizza, all with the click of a button. We constantly thirst for better, faster, and easier technology to help us keep up with our lives. To what effect does this have on patience in society as a whole though? Perhaps man’s endless thirst for instant gratification has constantly fueled the improving of technologies over the years, and thus, has caused our patience and attention span to diminish.
Computer hardware has seen one of the biggest leaps within the past twenty years. We are constantly coming out with faster, more powerful, more reliable computer processors with no plateau to improvement in sight.The recent Intel i7-4770k of 2013 can process information nearly eight times faster than the Intel Pentium Dual Core E5200 of 2008 according to cpubenchmark.net. Recent solid state drives have also trumped traditional hard drives by replacing the spinning platter with solid bricks of data, much like a glorified flash drive. For example, the average boot time of Windows 7 on the Boot Time of the Samsung Spinpoint F3 HDD is about forty-two seconds. The average Windows 7 Boot Time of the Crucial M4 SSD is nearly halved in comparison, clocking in at about twenty-two seconds. To some accustomed to the newer faster SSD, the older HDD drives may feel like it takes an eternity to boot up.Dana Levin, a student at Drexel University College of Medicine, comments on the...

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