#3 What May Occur

"Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense." - Gertrude Stein.
After watching the video human dystopia I thought that this quote related to the matter of what technology could lead to in the future. In the animated movie Wall-E it shows human life taking place on a spacecraft in outer space. On the spacecraft everything is completely run by technology. With the constant use of technology humans began to rely more on the technology in which they considered they needed. The humans then began to get obese doing nothing that required using more than their mouth and finger movement. The scene where the two men were talking to eachother through a projected hologram when they were right next to eachother, not even turning to actually speak to one another. While in another scene one of the men fell out of his hovering chair and couldn't even get himself up. When I contemplate on the differences between today and the movie Wall-E it upsets me. It upsets me because our generation is more caught up into using technology so much that we might end up relying on nothing but technology. Technology surrounds us. As I am writing this blog post I am guessing that mostly everyone is using technology im some way, shape, or form. However, Personally, I would rather talk to someone in person than through an electronic device. However, I do realize many people, already, would rather speak to someone through a computer. If we could break ourselves out of these habits, we won't continue to ask ourselves "What has our generation come to? Why didn't we fix the problem when we had a chance? Why do we rely so much on something that can malfunction." On that note, I believe we need to rely more on ourselves than an electronic device.