In November, Logitech rolled out its billionth mouse from its production line. That is a lot of mice. These days the function of the mouse is being pushed out of the way for new ways of interaction. Touch screens, facial recognition, and speech are all rage in current developments; from ipods to laptops to smart phones. Each new development changing the way we interact with technology. The movement is careening towards the scripted language of writing technology to do this and that to being able to manipulate and interact with the technology as one might a solid object or a person. The computer is only a recent technology and its influence on contemporary society is unprecedented.
Mr Prentice strongly disagreed and said that the pace of progress could not be denied.
“Just look forward five years and computer screens will be built into the walls of our homes and that would make it difficult to drive with a mouse. That’s where all the new technology like multi touch and facial recognition comes in. This is where the computer stops being a computer and becomes part of a building.
“Push things back 30 years and we would never have said we’d sit in front of a computer or that computers would hold all our music when everyone bought gramophones. Computers are not just computers anymore, they are part of our lives,” added Mr Prentice.
Some scientists think the wired world may be changing the way we read, learn and interact with each other.
What does a teenage brain on Google look like? Do all those hours spent online rewire the circuitry? Could these kids even relate better to emoticons than to real people?
These sound like concerns from worried parents. But they’re coming from brain scientists.
Better hop on board for the techno-revolution.
ARTICLE – Is technology rewiring our brains?
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