Blog Post #7

I think there are a lot of benefits to technology, incredible things have come from it. getting in touch with old friends and relatives, new media to view, but the other side of the coin, there are negatives. i think a lot of the negatives come from greed though. for instance the video we watched on AI is the first negative that pops into my head. i even mention in that blog post that I personally think its a slippery slope because of greed. we as humans in such an advanced age as this one, of course we want more and want to see what limitations we can breakthrough, but that can be dangerous. not just because of the creation of AI, but because of things like facebook, twitter, and instagram. with social media, there ups as i mentioned previously like making and maintaining connections, but theres also a serious privacy invader that comes with it. for example, 

i remember a couple years ago hearing of a test one couple did to see if their facebook ads truly did come from the app/phone listening in on conversations. this couple didn't have a pet cat, so they began to talk as if they did. talking about their cat, what kinds of food, toys, and litter to buy for the animal. and sure enough not long after a few days of this experiment, they began to receive facebook ads for cat litter.

i think the diffusion theory is really interesting. the idea of early vs late adapters is a confusing topic though. i think a lot could play into why someone was on the technology band wagon early vs later. i think the late adapters sort of had a realization that things would never be the same and technology was here to stay so they were sort of forced into the new age.