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Peerzada Haqqani
Professor Marcy
ENGNR-2392
18 April 2014
SIA Paper
Introduction
The evolution of technology in the past two decades has transformed the way we thing and behave greatly. Automation, simplification and integration aptly describe what technology has done to processes and activities allowing us to access information in a faster and relatively more accessible manger. The newest trend in technology is all about mobile and wearable gadgets (Hearing & Ussery, 2012). In 2013, a firm named Pebble introduced the first smart watch. Technological giants like Apple and Samsung have followed suit and have introduced a newline of watches that are compatible with our smart phones. A smart watch is a gadget that goes beyond telling the time and allows you to use it to play songs, communicate with your phone and keep you updated with new happenings using a high-resolution display. Now prominent watchmakers are lining up to design and sell these new watches, they believe that in the near future these watches will replace the need of having “old-school” watches (Moran & Vallejo, 2013). Amongst the main products is the Samsung Galaxy Gear, which allows integration of the wearable watch with a number of devices extending the traditional power of a watch into a control center.
With the advent of newer technology on such frequent basis, we tend to forego the social impact that these devices have on its users. The question of ethics will be brought up, how far engineers are willing to go into this technology, will they stop with integration with a smartphone or they will go all the way to integrate it with our brains? This paper will discuss the social impact analysis of wearable watches and the social impact it has on users.
The Smart Watch
Samsung has been one of the innovators in the mobile sector in the past five years and has transformed the mobile handset from the traditional phone-and-games set to a comprehensive smartphone using underlying Android
Professor Marcy
ENGNR-2392
18 April 2014
SIA Paper
Introduction
The evolution of technology in the past two decades has transformed the way we thing and behave greatly. Automation, simplification and integration aptly describe what technology has done to processes and activities allowing us to access information in a faster and relatively more accessible manger. The newest trend in technology is all about mobile and wearable gadgets (Hearing & Ussery, 2012). In 2013, a firm named Pebble introduced the first smart watch. Technological giants like Apple and Samsung have followed suit and have introduced a newline of watches that are compatible with our smart phones. A smart watch is a gadget that goes beyond telling the time and allows you to use it to play songs, communicate with your phone and keep you updated with new happenings using a high-resolution display. Now prominent watchmakers are lining up to design and sell these new watches, they believe that in the near future these watches will replace the need of having “old-school” watches (Moran & Vallejo, 2013). Amongst the main products is the Samsung Galaxy Gear, which allows integration of the wearable watch with a number of devices extending the traditional power of a watch into a control center.
With the advent of newer technology on such frequent basis, we tend to forego the social impact that these devices have on its users. The question of ethics will be brought up, how far engineers are willing to go into this technology, will they stop with integration with a smartphone or they will go all the way to integrate it with our brains? This paper will discuss the social impact analysis of wearable watches and the social impact it has on users.
The Smart Watch
Samsung has been one of the innovators in the mobile sector in the past five years and has transformed the mobile handset from the traditional phone-and-games set to a comprehensive smartphone using underlying Android
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