Digital Age
Looking back in the past several years, we can see that technology has
contributed an important role in our society nowadays. It changes the way
people work, the way people live, and also the way people treat each
other. Knowing the important of the development of technology, scientists
and engineers are constantly inventing and exploring the world of
technology to build a better society for everybody.
Can you imagine your life with technology in the next thirty years? Do
you prefer to work at the office and chat with your co-worker face to face
or just stay home, transfer files to your computers and chat with your
co-worker through the web camera from home? Do you prefer to have a
little chip implanted in your body, so your family will easily find you?
Or do you prefer to have a private life, so nobody will know where you are
or what you do? I can see clearly the heat of the discussion right now in
every student in the CSC 4735 - Computers Societies and Ethics teach by
instructor John Clark at University of Colorado - Denver lately. Some
choose the new technology and some against it totally. It rises to the
question that whether technology will improve the life of everybody or
just makes it worst. A little chip implanted in your body will make you
feel safer or make you feel less privacy?
Participating in the discussion room in class, reading the article "Only
disconnect, A taste of life in 2033" from the Economist print edition on
January 23rd, 2003, and skipping through lots of frequently ask question
about life with new technology, I myself believe that the exposed of
digital technology in the near future will change the ethical, moral, and
legal issues in every human being.
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...iew. With the advantage of the digital world,
women will have more opportunity in life and participate in her favorite
clubs. If she have the chance to hang out with her husband and her kids
in the real world, her relationship and the bond between her children and
she will be better. Also, if Dick stop worrying about his privacy life,
his life will be better since he did not do anything wrong. Anyway, what
does your life look like in the next 30 years?
WORKS CITED
1. "Only Disconnect, A Taste of Life in 2033"
http://www.economist.com/opinion/displayStory.cfm?story_id=1534295
2. "Now Digital, Spy Camera Technology Widens Gaze" - Laurie J. Flynn
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/21/technology/21CAME.html
3. "Technology to Meld Chips into Humans Draws Closer" - Paul Eng
http://abcnews.go.com/sections/scitech/DailyNews/chipimplant020225.html
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