We are too reliant on technology (not that anyone cares)

Are we too reliant on technology?

Yes.

I suppose I need 380 more words, so I guess I’ll elaborate more on this. You see, I’m using technology right now to type this blog, and I’m pretty sure you used technology to type the prompt for this assignment as well. You could’ve written it on the board and have us write it down and turn it in, but because we are so dependent on technology neither of those things happened.

Last time I went 24 hours without technology? Hm. Must’ve been when I was like 5, 6, 7 or some young age when I could barely speak English and only cared about play-doh and butterflies. I’ve used technology for most of my life and I don’t plan on changing it. Or maybe it was when I had my wisdom teeth pulled and couldn’t do crap and felt like crap for an overall crappy experience. Probably not, since I usually played video games and drank my tears since I couldn’t open my mouth very much and it was much easier than getting up for water. Needless to say, technology is important in my life and my life sucks without it.

First thing I did that involved technology this morning? Well, I turned off my phone’s annoying alarm then checked the time. I then managed to get on my laptop for no reason whatsoever and do something I already forgot. How early? If you really want to know, it was around seven or six or eight or something like that. I don’t really make it a habit to check the time whenever I wake up unless I’m late to class or decide to eat my dining hall’s nasty breakfast.

>ignoring third question<

Using technology for medical reasons? I’m pretty sure doctors use their technology for medical reasons, but knowing how incompetent and useless most of them are, it probably doesn’t mean much of anything. Sometimes I google symptoms they have and end up with ridiculous results like “you have brain cancer” if I’m just sneezing. It’s amazing how much the symptoms of the common cold resemble every disastrous disease and virus out there, geez.  I guess if you want a serious answer, my grandpa has a breathing machine so he doesn’t die and my cousin uses a back massage giving device to soothe her scoliosis. I don’t know of anyone else who uses technology for any useful purposes whatsoever so let’s just leave it at that.

Rereading this garbage, I didn’t talk at all about why we’re too reliant on technology. People use cell phones and don’t really talk to each face-to-face, lots of classes are switching to technology to teach, it’s making us lazy by having google to answer everything (have you ever seen someone google something stupid like “is asia a country?” Ugh.) and I’m already bored of typing this so that’s the best you’re gonna get outta me.

There’s my 400+ words read ‘em and give me a good grade, please.

Autonomous

"Should countries possessing the technology to build drones and other “killer robots“ that are fully autonomous, and can kill without direct orders or remote control, place limits on their development and use?"

What kind of question is that? Ok, it gets even better with this line:

"What are the consequences if participating nations find that non-signatory countries or rogue states have started or continued to employ such weapons?" 

Seriously?! What good would come from autonomous weapons? And I thought I was the joker in this relationship, pal. You just gave me two reasons to want nothing to do with them. It's like saying, "Which would you like better? Having your flesh slowly ripped open with a butter knife or having rats eat your face off?" Neither of those things sound pleasant, mind you, nor would I be stupid enough to actually pick one. 

If autonomous weapons are so dangerous why would countries even make them? If I created something that could kill anything without me telling it what to do that would sound freakin' awesome, but tell me one, and I mean ONE smart decision any government has made with any weapons. I can imagine something like this getting out in the streets and killing random people daily. Sure, it would certainly help deal with hunger and poverty and such by shredding down the population, but I guess that's highly unethical and blah blah blah since human lives are apparently worth something. I could also imagine some fool somewhere going "oh look, I just created this awesome machine that can kill people without me telling to, everyone should totally give me money!" and right before they continue they get blasted by the same device. And then the machine destroys all of humanity and then you have the movie "9" (which was a fantastic movie, by the way I suggest you watch it after you think up another blog for me to answer sarcastically." 

So, I don't really see the point of autonomous weapons. I really, really don't. I mean, it's much more efficient to train humans than create some machine to create the "terminator effect" and we all know how paranoid people became after the Terminator series. Sigh. Onto the next blog. 

Well, there's my answer. 

How the Internet Influenced Me?

How has the internet influenced me? I have a better question: how has it NOT influenced me? I’m pretty sure 90% of my day consists of internet, and the other 10% is the unimportant necessities of life, such as food, sleep, bathroom breaks, etc. Notice how I didn’t mention class and work, as those things aren’t as necessary as internet.

            How would my life be without technology? I suppose I’d be in a loincloth hunting with rocks and eating grass. More specifically, without internet life would be a lot harder and much more annoying. People say the internet is making us antisocial because most people are wrapped up in their smartphones and such. Well, they’re right, but can you actually imagine sitting down and talking to another human being? Like, who does that anymore? I guess that’s why I don’t do well in social groups, but that’s another story for another blog I won’t take very seriously like this one, I’m sure.

            Now, let me tell you online gaming is where it’s at! Playing games has really helped me cope with anxiety and sadness, cause I’m human like everyone else. It’s fun to be an awesome character in a game and pretend you were that person, or complete quests and become an amazing superhero you’ll never be in real life. That’s the real joy of gaming, right there. It’s also fun hearing from other people who play the same video games you do. And no, I don’t mean the people you play with online directly, cause being social is overrated as I mentioned before, which is precisely why 99.239874923874298374% of people on the internet are stupid and angry for absolutely no reason. I mean watching reviews on YouTube and stuff, cause that requires a lot less effort and social interaction.

            As for Wikipedia, I’m quite glad it’s around. It decreases the brain power and learning capability of most individuals by having all the questionable and probably wrong questions answered in the universe, which is good for lazy people like me who often don’t use their brain for much of anything besides typing and eating. Even then my intelligence is questionable, as I made around 234 errors typing this blog.

            Lastly, it’s great the media is online now. I’m sure it decreased the number of needless paper cuts many innocent Americans suffered each day. Have you seen a poor little child rolling around in a wheelchair because of a bandage on his thumb? I have, it’s very heartbreaking stuff, man. It also makes learning about the world a lot easier to do, though. Who actually wants to know what’s going on anymore? The world is a scary place, and the news consists of 80% murder/rape/violence of any kind, 15% “the government is doing >insert dumb and ridiculous thing here that will surely lead to an unnecessary war or people dying needlessly<” and 5% good stories that embody the well-being of the human soul. So, the bottom line is media is stupid and everyone should avoid it.

I’m sure this blog is over 400 words, and if it isn’t well it should be cause I spent a solid 50 seconds thinking of what to type, and I believe I should get credit for all 50 of those brain tiring seconds.

What I Thought About The Book

Ok, before I type my random sarcasticness, do you honestly think I read this book all the way through? Not that I didn’t find it interesting, but let’s look at some of the gibberish and Asian/Greek/Alien language plastered everywhere in it:

>Sighs< I don’t know what’s up with this book, but at times I did find these mysterious symbols much more captivating than the text. Anyway, let’s pretend I read this thing as I make up the next 380 words required for this blog.

            To be honest, a lot of the book wasn’t really new. Sure, it had concepts that were really cool, but I learned most of it already. Chapters one and two dealt with aspects of computer engineering, which I’m more familiar with as I’m taking the class right now. I knew what he meant by DeMorgan’s Theorem, Boolean algebra, and logic gates, so much of that wasn’t new to me. I did find a few of the diagrams interesting, such as figures 5 and 6, as I didn’t really imagine computers having literal nuts and bolts early on. Chapter 3 reminded me of scratch and some other program from my earlier years I used that involved moving a turtle from place to place. Notice how I didn’t mention chapters 4 and 5? I really didn’t like either of those chapters. It just seemed really repetitive and I found it quite hard to understand. Maybe cause I’m stupid >shrugs< who knows.

            Would I recommend this book to a friend? Let’s define “friend” here. Do you mean someone I care for as a human being, or some random stranger I say “hi” to before hurrying off to wherever I’m going? If it’s the latter, then totally. I could just chuck the book at them and continue on with my day. If I were to give this book to a friend, I’d probably have to bribe them with candy or money. Probably both. Not to say that I hated the book, but I don’t really see any of my friends reading it, especially since most of them barely know how to turn on a computer and the words in it will probably look similar to the gibberish crap written everywhere in my book in the pictures above.

            Hm, since I need a few more words, I guess I can tell you how I felt while reading this book.

            Bored? Engaged? Interested? All of the above.

            That’s it for this blog. Tune in for next week’s installment.