Journal 1

Technology has become more and more commonplace as time has progressed. That has never been as true as it is today. The reliance we have on technology has reached a point that the educated entities of the world have begun taking serious concern on the roll they play in our lives. This week we talked about the reliance that the students in the class have on technology and related it to several external understandings and points of views on the subject.

We began our first full reading of the course in Mark Twain’s “A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s court” which has begun to discuss the differences in technological advancement between these time periods. This is analogous to our world today where, in comparison to Hank Morgan, we would find ourselves in very similar situations as to what he is experiencing in Camelot.

As the course continues I expect that we will see more discussions of the differences in technological innovations as the name ‘Time/Machine” would suggest. Furthermore, I think that the discussion of our brain as a computer will play heavily into our discussions in the future since it is a powerful metaphor for technological innovation.