Influence of technology in my life

Definitions:

Technology - the application of scientific knowledge for practical purposes, especially in industry.

Science - the intellectual and practical activity encompassing the systematic study of the structure and                              behaviour of the physical and natural world through observation and experiment.

Reflexivity - the coreferential relation between a reflexive pronoun and its antecedent.

Technicism - Technicism is an over reliance or overconfidence in technology as a benefactor of society. Taken to                     the extreme, some argue that technicism is the belief that humanity will ultimately be able to                             control the entirety of existence using technology.

These are a few of the things that aren’t in my mind map but count.

From the Moment I wake up, to the moment I sleep, technology plays a huge part in my life. To be honest I don’t see my life without it. Just imagining living in medieval times, scares the life out of me! Take for example something as simple as a sewer line and toilets with running water. Back in those days, people use to just “do their business” in buckets at night and toss it out the window in the morning. On to the streets! No wonder people got so sick and with such a high mortality rate.

All the above brings us to another technological advancement, Medication. Call me what you want, but if there was a pill for sneezing, I would probably have it. Another beautiful piece of technology is the heater, not forgetting its siblings, the electric blanket, the fan and the air conditioner.

  Glass and plastic are two of the most underrated pieces of technological advancement. I mean they are used for most everything. Containers, cutlery, toys, ornaments, furniture and even buildings are made entirely of or may contain a little of the two. Even certain pieces of clothing are made from plastic.

Some may see it differently but I see clothing and fashion as a technological advancement as well. The way clothing these days is designed to either breathe or seal in heat, the way some fabrics are waterproof or stain resistant. For me as a fashion lover, that is big!

Then we have obvious life savers, the laptops, flash sticks, external hard drives, modems, internet, printers, scanners, software and compatible machinery that has made it easier for us graphic designers animation specialists and photographers to execute our work the way we envision it. At first we had to draw everything by hand, including pictures, now we can simply grab a camera and press a button. What a wonder technology is.

Zeitgeist and Utopia

Zeitgeist and Utopia

Zeitgeist, in my opinion sounded like a Hitler related event. when in actual fact it turned out to be a spirit of time.

Noun
The defining spirit or mood of a particular period of history as shown by the ideas and beliefs of the time.
The Zeitgeist which is spirit of the age or spirit of the time is the intellectual fashion or dominant school of thought that typifies and influences the culture of a particular period in time. For example, the Zeitgeist of modernism typified and influenced architecture, art, and fashion during much of the 20th century.

Definition of ZEITGEIST
: the general intellectual, moral, and cultural climate of an era
Zeit·geist (tstgst, zt-)
n.
The spirit of the time; the taste and outlook characteristic of a period or generation: “It’s easy to see how a student . . . in the 1940′s could imbibe such notions. The Zeitgeist encouraged Philosopher-Kings” (James Atlas).

The noun ZEITGEIST has 1 sense:
1. the spirit of the time; the spirit characteristic of an age or generation
Familiarity information: ZEITGEIST used as a noun is very rare.

Meaning:
The spirit of the time; the spirit characteristic of an age or generation
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Hypernyms (“Zeitgeist” is a kind of…):
feel; feeling; flavor; flavour; look; smell; spirit; tone (the general atmosphere of a place or situation and the effect that it has on people)


UTOPIA on the other hand, i thought was an island in South America. In a sense my notion was close, because a Utopia turns out to be a perfect place to live.

1

: an imaginary and indefinitely remote place

2

often capitalized : a place of ideal perfection especially in laws, government, and social conditions

3

: an impractical scheme for social improvement

n
	( sometimes not capital ) any real or imaginary society, place, state, etc, considered to be perfect or idea

A utopia is a community or society possessing highly desirable or perfect qualities. The word was coined in Greek by Sir Thomas More for his 1516 book Utopia, describing a fictional island society in the Atlantic Ocean. The term has been used to describe both intentional communities that attempt to create an ideal society, and fictional societies portrayed in literature. It has spawned other concepts, most prominently dystopia.

utopia

1) a theoretical “perfect” realm, in which everyone is content, where things get done well by people who are happy to do them, and where all the problems which have plagued our world for millenia no longer apply. whoever came up with the idea was drunk, stoned, tripping or insane. maybe all four. 2) a popular maths-and-text based online game which can be quite complicated. people who play tend to lose all social skills, and spend hours chatting to friends and allies online, saying things like “goddam, just got grabbed by a pumped orc. he’s bottom-feeding, so my kd suicided in retal, razed him and he’s near peasant-death” do not worry if you do not understand the game. half the people who play don’t either. be warned, the game seems to exert a strange and powerful force on those with geekish tendencies.

1 often capitalized : a place of ideal perfection especially in laws, government, and social conditions

2 : an impractical scheme for social improvement
- uto·pi·an /-p-n/ adjective or noun

Word History In 1516 the English statesman Sir Thomas More published a book that compared the condition of his England to that of a perfect and imaginary country, Utopia. Everything that was wrong in England was perfect in Utopia. More was trying to show how people could live together in peace and happiness if they only did what he thought was right. But the name he gave his imaginary country showed that he did not really believe perfection could ever be reached. Utopia means, literally, “no place,” since it was formed from the Greek ou, meaning “no, not,” and topos, “place.” Since More’s time, utopia has come to mean “a place of ideal perfection.” Over the years many books similar to Utopia have been written, and many plans for perfect societies proposed, most of them impractical. Utopiahas also come to mean any such scheme or plan.