DSPN Technology Rant



Here we are in 2014 and I’m sitting here wondering how things were like in 1988 when I graduated from John Bartram High School in Philadelphia, Pa without computers.  For me it was normal to be honest, very normal in that communication was not a buzz word that could be broken down into different components. It was simply two people talking either in a conversation or over the phone. Life was, of course, much simpler and communication technology wasn’t needed like it is today. Let’s talk about life back then uninterrupted without the communication technology of today. I can vividly remember my routine as a child and it went just like this, go to school, come home and take off my school clothes, put on some play clothes, do my homework, and go outside to play which involved communicating with other kids face to face. Dodgeball, Football, Basketball, and Stickball were just some of my favorite past-times that I enjoyed and still do to this day. The news came on at 6pm and 11pm and the Television programming was basic and over after the Late Show with David Letterman. Those times seem like a millennium away now with the paradigm shifts that has occurred with communications and technology.  New technologies like cellular phones, mini computers, and internetworks have exploded onto the scene and changed the way we view and operate in the world. Are these new technologies increasing productivity for good purposes and making living a much more enjoyable experience?  Is the usage of the new technologies akin to what we have seen in the Science fiction movie series The Terminator? In that series the machines (technology) overcame the checks and balances of man and took control of the course of the world.  We seem to be on the same path as that science fiction series.