It's time for technology to evolve again

Faisal Hirji

CAS 283 blog 1

9/12/2014


Today we live in a world dominated by new and innovative forms of technology. This extends from our professional lives right down to our social lives. Social media in fact has become so extensive that you can now easily communicate with people, and find out news about what's happening, all over the world in seconds. We live in a time people even call the social media era. While initially this was a huge step but now are all the "upgrades" really benefiting us? It is about time we stop trying to upgrade for profit and we try to improve other facets of our lives for advancement. 
             E waste is a legitimate problem creating forms of waste and pollution we seemingly just cannot deal with. Smart Phones must be regulated tighter on all fronts. Furthermore corporate greed has forced corruption and caused an unwanted stranglehold on the public. How many people actually read the terms and conditions before agreeing and having there information sent out to corporations resulting is spam along with other unwanted forms of technological harassment. While one might argue people should know what they sign many of these sites restrict access if the terms and conditions are not excepted shutting them out and essentially giving them no way out.
             Government regulations aside we want to gain knowledge advance as a society be ahead of the world and find ways to enhance our lives and the world we seem to be destroying. So in a way are all these new smartphones, televisions, gaming systems etc. the way to that? No, absolutely not we need to stop spending so much time on frivolous entities corporate greed aside. what we need to focus on is evolving medicine, transportation, and environmentally friendly methods to prevents us from causing all the destruction that we do through our overuse and excess amount of pollution and general wastefulness as a people. 
              The simple solution is to look for ways to suppress corporate greed or at least reward those who refuse to sell out to the corporations making defaulting the less attractive offer. Are Government regulations plausible? I certainly think so if we can implement a system that forces companies to scale back on the frivolous products that they release without singling out companies and keeping competition alive we will produce less e waste and it would probably stop the public from always wanting more and instead putting their money into better investments and helping benefit the better world we look to create.