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__Assignment #1: Why I chose this topic__ Even when I was little, technology was always one of the things that caught my attention. The lights, sounds, keys, and colorful buttons, all amazed me. Every time anyone of my family members got a new gadget, I would be the first one asking questions and wanting to learn how to work it. I think that my generation of kids is the most caught up in all technology that has been coming out for the last few years. I don’t know if that’s a good or bad thing. It can be a good thing because we can be the next people in making these new gadgets but it can also be a bad thing because it is constantly distracting us from things like school work. I find myself using a lot of these gadgets because they help me keep in touch with my friends, family, and help me with my homework since a lot of the new technology seems to now be incorporated in education. I feel like because of the spur of technology, we have all these new advances in things like medicine, education, and even social life.

I remember when I was younger and everyone was crazy about beepers. Everyone had a beeper and that was the way people communicated. But now we have things like regular flip phones which seem to be getting out of style, sidekicks, Blackberry’s, Phones with walkie-talkies, Ipod’s with music, a phone and a camera incorporated all in at once, and digital flat screen TV’s with no antenna. I nearly feel like I cannot live without any of these items. My flat screen television gives me better quality than any old television lying around in my house, so I ditched the old one. My TV even tells me whose calling because it has a Caller-id feature in the cable box. I find that to be amazing, I don’t have to get up and answer the phone if I don’t want to talk to the person who is calling. I cannot spend a whole day without going on the internet, texting, taking pictures, or watching TV. I think it’s a bad thing because instead of we once having these things as a luxury we now need these objects more than anything. Sometimes I see people who’d rather keep being on the internet looking at gossip or watching videos on Youtube instead of eating when they’re hungry.

Since there are all these new sorts of technology, I feel like America as a whole is becoming lazy. Before we had to go to the library to do a paper for school, now we can just go on the internet to find information on anything you can think of. I chose this topic because I feel like I am a part of the generation that is getting sucked into all this technology out in the world. I want to learn more about this topic and one day hope to be a part of making new technology for new generations coming up. I’ve always wondered if companies have a certain way they sell their items. I wonder if they already have technology in for about the next 10 years and each is better but only take them out slowly or if they literally make a new gadget every year and then start planning for the next. The career that I want to pursue has technology involved and I want to know if there are going to be any new advances in the next few years that I should know about.