While watching Jeopardy with the guest opponent Watson and recently talking in Biology about how our technology in medicines is still behind, I came to thinking about how our present day, our modern day, will the be the past of tomorrow. All of our technology will look barbaric and our lifestyles will be a thing of the past when we are older! It was only in 1928 when the first television came onto the market and then the computer was placed on the market in 1982. Personally, I know people in say that when they were in college, they were researching, learning, and programming how to make a button or tab work as a link on computers. To me that seems so long ago, but it was really during my parents youth, so what will my kids say about the new technology I have today? What will be the new way to hold music? Can laptops be get any thinner? Will touch screens be an irrational idea?
I hope technology is more focused and involved in medical research rather than entertainment; one because kids need to stop staring at monitors all day making their brains turn to mush, and two, we should be capable to cure many conditions which we are dealing with irrationally, including radiation therapy for cancer patients. It is sad that with all of our entertainment technology increasing constantly, our medical technology is lacking. I hope when I'm old, I can tell my grandchildren about how hard I had it with the limited amount of technology I lived with as a kid. I mean honestly, my grandparents lived without electricity (and shoes) when they grew up!
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