Thursday, December 4, 2008

Journal #10

The future has a lot to hold for my peers and I. Hopefully, I will be working at a company creating 3 Dimensional graphics for an advertising company or architectural firm. If technology keeps advancing, I may have to learn many new programs to render realistic looking pictures and simulations for other companies. 3D graphics may become easier to create, but the artistic aspect will still be necessary. I currently work at a sign and graphics company and customers believe they know what graphic design is and believe they can create graphics with programs like Microsoft Word. When technology advances, it may be easier to create 3D graphics, but like my sign customers, people will struggle making the artistic decisions to create realism.
My friends may be ahead of the curve. One of my friends is a computer science major who works at a top secret military base. He cannot tell me anything about what he does day to day, which leads me to believe he would be ahead of the new technologies created by the government. The government may have more power over what we do and what we see. Chances are, the government will get us to agree to what they want us to agree on. The government knows how to put things to get the public’s support, i.e. the Iraq War. The government flat out lied to us about nuclear weapons and that Iraq was a real threat. The public, being stunned by the recent attacks, showed full support for our government just to find later on they lied to us. If the government has successfully pulled off this trick in 2001, what makes us believe they won’t pull this off again?
The online community will probably become even larger due to the horrible economy. If we cannot figure out how to fuel our vehicles, or have no motivation to work at a company that we have to travel to. With mass communication, we all could essentially work from home and send our work to a headquarters, which could be anywhere in the world, over the internet. Neighborhoods will no longer be relevant, people will not care how much land they have around their house. People will be entirely enveloped by the internet and all of its charm.
The only way this future would not be possible is if the internet crashes: people would need to localize their world. Prices of basic materials will skyrocket and the “Computer Age” will be in a history book, yes a book! We will all have to revert to the middle ages and work our way back to what we once were (modern times). Government will either have to deviate their power up to local governments, or send out troops to enforce their laws. Technology would be nearly extinct and with technology gone, how would we be monitored?
The future could really go either way, technology advancement or technology extinction. Our world wil most definitely be different. The government may have us all fooled right now, we think our elections areup to us, but it may be preplanned. We may have less power than we think we do. If technology is eliminated, essentially the public would have much more power than the government, we would just have to have enough people stand up for the same idea. More technology would lead the government to have more power over us because we can be constantly monitored. All of this may happen in more than ten years, but eventually we will be either owned by or in charge of technology.