Parental Interview

So i sat down with my mother, who's name is Maribel and i asked her aview questions about our everyday digitalization experience. i asked her three questions only because she really wanted to see an episode of stargate SG 1 so i had to be quick.

#1- "do you actually feel more connected with people because we have all this digitalizaion or do you feel less connected because its the technoligy talking for us?"

#2- "do u feel happier with or without digitalization, and if so with it , then is it a false happiness because its only temperarily making you happy becuase its there at the moment?"

#3-"do you think our generation of teenagers are smarter because we are able to understand the new technoligy better then someone like you who grew up in a time period where all you had was a TV"

her responce was...

#1-" i feel more connected with people like family becuase its so easy just to open my flip phone and go throught my 'my faves' and one click and il be talking to Titi (my Aunt)but back when i was little we never had cell phones to call people. i remember when the cell phone first came out they were so big and clunky and as the years went by things got smaller and everything became so much easier"

#2-" i do feel like its a false sence of happiness because when there isnt anything to watch on tv we feel bored, so the technoligy itself is only making us tempirarly happy until it dissapoints us by not doing what we want it to do. im not gonna lie i cant help but love watching my stargate SG 1 but there other things we could be doing like reading."

#3-" I wouldnt say you guys are smarter because you can figure out how to sync an ipod becuase it doesnt compare to good hard work like doing accounting for a job or putting your mind to figuring it out for urselfs"

Digitalization

So as i sit at my computer table, i have my itunes running, my cell phone is to the right of me and my computer is running as well. Thats three digital sources all at the same time. i cant do my homework without it so what does that say about how i have adapted to digitalization. Life seams to be so much more important with it, it occupies our time and gives us something to do. we rely on it everday and its obvious that we cant live without it.everyone craves the newest devices, and the newest devices do more for us and make life one big shortcut.
what ive come to notice is Digitalization is not perfect, we hype it up so make it seam like its indistuctable when were putting all our trust into a piece of technoligy that isnt perfect. things break, malfuction, crash, blow fuses, explode in come cases, catch fire, shut down. it cant last forever so when it suddenly stops working what are we going to do? Can we stop living digitally? Are we acting differently because of it? How have we evolved mentally, physically and emotionally sence it has begun?