Obi Wan Kenobi, in the last Star Wars movie, said that everything is based on a point of view. This is how I have always see journalism and news articles. Someone’s point of view being told to us and it is up to us if we want to believe it, accept it or think differently. I believe that when the media is reporting on new facets such as science, technology or a new type of innovation, the media is merely informing us of something in their own point of view. They aren’t transforming it for us, it is how we see it and understand it that it becomes transformed into our own point of view.
I once heard that science is all about proving old theories wrong. This is the same thing that Kevin Kelly talks about in the Scientists when he says how “science is our most potent invention because it has given us a method to keep reinventing it”. He explains how science is all about evolution of technique, learning from the past and collating different types of data to get a new outcome of information. John Wilbanks says something similar in his article in Seed Magazine when he discusses how the scientific publishic industry has also gone through evolution in the way its used and articles are published. Wilbanks says how “The changes [are] wrought by digital networks”. New times have created a new platform and a need for adaptability.
The future is ever changing. New technology is coming around faster and faster and becomes more economically viable each time so that more families and people have access to it. Where it’s heading though is a completely different question. I personally believe that soon everything that we do on a day to day basis including household chores will be controlled from either a watch or a mobile phone. Mobility and ease is where the future is headed. The only question is, not how far away this is…but how soon this is!!
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