Rhymes of History Technology

Thornburg states Rhymes of History is ‘New Technology is a fresh emergence of the impact left many years before from another technology” (Laureate Education, 2009).  I have noticed more recently that there are a number of gadgets today that have been built on the shoulders of more retro forms of the technology.

I chose today’s modern smart device as the perfect technology that continues to rekindle and retrieve from the past. There was a point in the past when you had to rely on a VHS recorder to record all of your video needs. While also utilizing a Polaroid camera to take all of your pictures. If you fast forward to today, this would seems like the longest process to get those things accomplished.  Currently most if not all smart devices give the option to record video and take pictures in the blink of an eye. The smart device rekindles most of the older communication methods as well. With email capabilities, people don’t have to rely on the post office to send letters. In most cases, you can shoot an email and get the message across in a much fast way.

At this point in technology, it’s hard to recollect where we can go from here as it seems we are at the peak technology advancement but I am more than sure in the next 20 years we will look at our current methods and wonder how we ever lived with this technology.

Reference:

Laureate Education, Inc. (2009).  Emerging and future technologies: Rhymes of History.  

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