Extend That It's 100 Years From Now Case Study
1. Pretend that it’s 100 years from now. Which piece of technology from our era do you think people will think we were foolish to have used? Why do you think they’ll think this? What are the costs and benefits of technology?
The piece of technology from our era that people will think we were foolish to have was the laptop. Pretty soon there will be tablets and phones that store and can do processes faster than any laptop every could. These tablets and phones are going to weigh less than any phone, tablet, or laptop that is used today and are going to be made of a slab of glass. Future generations are going to have this because they had increased their knowledge and decreased the amount of space that was needed to hold the insides of a computer. …show more content…
It impacted my reading of the story not too much because of how I have seen it how it was back then and how it is now. This depiction was very intentional because when you want to describe something to someone then you should you have to show them your opinion on the subject and then you show them others’ opinions. The only thing that I have read that describes past technology as old, and would make a better ornamental piece then an actual useful object, is this …show more content…
They will write that we had technology that was unsophisticated and it had very little uses compared to what they might have then. They might also write about how this generation and its addiction to technology and how the average teenager could not get off of his or her phone. Medical technology might also get written about and how it was very unsophisticated and it was nothing like what they might have then. Lastly, everything will be stored and used on a device kind of like a phone and these new “phones” are going to have a lot more capacity for more intense apps and extremely more storage space.
4. In the context of this article, what is the goal of education? Why should we strive to understand the past, present, and future? Cite evidence from this text, your own experience, and other literature, art, or history in your
The piece of technology from our era that people will think we were foolish to have was the laptop. Pretty soon there will be tablets and phones that store and can do processes faster than any laptop every could. These tablets and phones are going to weigh less than any phone, tablet, or laptop that is used today and are going to be made of a slab of glass. Future generations are going to have this because they had increased their knowledge and decreased the amount of space that was needed to hold the insides of a computer. …show more content…
It impacted my reading of the story not too much because of how I have seen it how it was back then and how it is now. This depiction was very intentional because when you want to describe something to someone then you should you have to show them your opinion on the subject and then you show them others’ opinions. The only thing that I have read that describes past technology as old, and would make a better ornamental piece then an actual useful object, is this …show more content…
They will write that we had technology that was unsophisticated and it had very little uses compared to what they might have then. They might also write about how this generation and its addiction to technology and how the average teenager could not get off of his or her phone. Medical technology might also get written about and how it was very unsophisticated and it was nothing like what they might have then. Lastly, everything will be stored and used on a device kind of like a phone and these new “phones” are going to have a lot more capacity for more intense apps and extremely more storage space.
4. In the context of this article, what is the goal of education? Why should we strive to understand the past, present, and future? Cite evidence from this text, your own experience, and other literature, art, or history in your