Smarter Than You Think By Clive Thompson
Are humans in a race against the machine? Will the machines be taking over us one day?The same ever-popular fear lingered among some of us for generations. Some people is questioning whether technologies will benefit or harm us? I wholeheartedly deem that technologies is beneficent to us. Machines make human become more efficient if we know how to cooperate with them. Most importantly, technology have been around for so long. Without our realization, we are heavily relying on machines in order to carry out our daily life. It is almost save to say that it would be impossible to in our current world without using technologies. In “Smarter Than You Think” by Clive Thompson, the author is stating his idea on how humans are much better off when
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We are using machines for nearly every second in our day, from the start to finish. I live in a world that technology is a part of every aspect of lives hence I don't feel that technology could be harmful to us. However, Brooke Gladstone and Josh Neufeld bough up an interesting point as to why other people might not be so ecstatic about technology: “Anything that is in the world when you're born is normal and ordinary and is just a natural part of the way the world works. Anything that's invented between when 15 and 35 is new and exciting and revolutionary. Anything invented after you're 35 is against the natural order of things” (338) Gladstone and Neufeld. In another word, we became to blind to the potential dangers from technologies. People who have not been around technologies are, with no doubt, view it as strange and abnormal hence they discourage the usage of technologies. Others might not approve of the new and advanced technologies due their fear of losing their jobs to those machines. Indeed, people are losing their jobs to the newly developed machines: “it maybe hard to believe, but before the end of this century, 70 percent of today's occupations will be likewise replaced by automation” (300) Kelly. However, the new technologies also created more jobs to make up for our previous jobs. Jobs that we didn't know we needed one or jobs that we have not yet
We are using machines for nearly every second in our day, from the start to finish. I live in a world that technology is a part of every aspect of lives hence I don't feel that technology could be harmful to us. However, Brooke Gladstone and Josh Neufeld bough up an interesting point as to why other people might not be so ecstatic about technology: “Anything that is in the world when you're born is normal and ordinary and is just a natural part of the way the world works. Anything that's invented between when 15 and 35 is new and exciting and revolutionary. Anything invented after you're 35 is against the natural order of things” (338) Gladstone and Neufeld. In another word, we became to blind to the potential dangers from technologies. People who have not been around technologies are, with no doubt, view it as strange and abnormal hence they discourage the usage of technologies. Others might not approve of the new and advanced technologies due their fear of losing their jobs to those machines. Indeed, people are losing their jobs to the newly developed machines: “it maybe hard to believe, but before the end of this century, 70 percent of today's occupations will be likewise replaced by automation” (300) Kelly. However, the new technologies also created more jobs to make up for our previous jobs. Jobs that we didn't know we needed one or jobs that we have not yet