technology continued

This week I decided to just look up how technology will change the world in fifty years. I must say, people are very ambitious. I read on many websites that technology would bring a drastic change almost every aspect of our lives. This includes transportation, communication, energy use, and food production. Many believe that solar energy will be the major method of energy in less than fifty years. One website (http://www.businessinsider.com/10-ways-technology-will-change-the-world-by-2025-2014-6) lists out all of the future technological innovations by 2025. It was interesting to see what another person meant by technology. While I was focusing on computer/engineering related changes, this author also explored how technology would affect medicine an economy. For example, one of changes listed that technology would cause was the prevention of type one diabetes. Borison claimed that “A human genome engineering platform will make it possible to modify disease-carrying genes and prevent conditions like Type I Diabetes.” However, it seems that not all technological change will be good. Some sites indicate that more technology use creates more energy consumption, which is bad for the environment and bad for the economy. I feel that I need to spend more time to fully understand the world’s future in technology, so I hope to look further into it before I start to make conclusions and decide how to present my research.