The impact of technologies in our daily basis.
First of all, I would like to point out the definition of quality and quantity. According to Cambridge dictionary; Quantity, means the size, weight, number etc of something. Whereas quality, means the extent to which something has features which are good or bad, especially features which are good.
According to what we have seen in class; On one hand quality is a gradual betterment, a progressive improvement of society. On the other hand, quantity is a forward movement, as toward a goal.
The idea of progress is an essential aspect for the great changes our society witnesses, even though some of these changes can be positive of negative.
To begin with, it seems obvious that over the past few years our ways of communication has evolved. The development of the internet has opened the gates of a smaller world. It has became so small, that people for example in America, can use the same apps, the same networks as people in Indonesia. Here the economic situation of the country, or its location, isn’t anymore an obstacle for people to get in touch with each other easily.
The main thing that needs to be said is the introduction of the documents bellow.
On one hand we have a circular graph, where the author tried to represent a percentage of the Time spent on every Social network used nowadays.
On the other hand we have a world map representing the people online, per 100,000 of people.
Being able to access the same websites as any other person in the world, no matter where you are; or the fact that we all have the biggest dictionaries in our pockets, our smartphones, are the perfect examples to show the quality face our technologies.
But once these technologies are used in excess, we can speak about the quantity point. Mankind has to find a balance between, using in a good way technologies, and not turning them into our drug.
These Gifs, from the popular series How I meet your mother, are the perfect description of how the excess of new technologies has affected our relationships as human beings. We have five people, the five main characters, sitting around a table, in a bar.
We can see how in 2005, they were all arguing about "how much does americans eat bread". Which is a stupid debate, but at least they were speaking to each other face to face. Whereas years later, in 2011, we see them again in the same pub, sitting in the same positions, but instead of speaking to each other, everyone is texting, blogging, tweeting ect... The life discussion, has been replaced by an abstract one.
