Emerging Technologies Week 1: Understands and defines the meaning of technology; differentiates between technology and emerging technologies
In The Meaning of Technology, Pacey claims, “Thus my argument is that, if we wish to understand what technology means to those who invent, tinker with, build, or just use its products, we must investigate how the aesthetic is intertwined with the practical; how the giving meaning is related to building and making; and how work with tools or with hands may have some correspondence with musical experience” (p. 18). Identify a technology that you use daily. Name it. Then, describe your personal relationship to it. How use using it make you feel? What meaning does it bring to your life? Social internet is a place where I find myself daily, whether that be at home, in the workplace or even at my local grocery store. Not only can you see entertaining videos, but you can also keep in touch with the lives of your family members and friends. For me, the app that I tend t...