The advancement in technology has been exceptionally fast in the 20th and 21st century. With electronic technology and machines being produced and improved all the time, it was very likely that along with the positive aspects of these new advancements, people would also consider the negative aspects and look to criticize new technology. Apple brought out a phone that could literally do everything and no other company in the mobile phone market could compare to it. Not only could you make phone calls and text, but you could also watch videos, take pictures and videos, listen to music, connect to the internet, you had app’s for almost anything. It’s the application market that really blew the other mobile phone companies out of the market at the time. You could download games, books, news, social networking sites in seconds. Of course this was a positive as people could use the phone to store data for work, education, entertainment. But the negative claims began as well, too expensive, quick battery power loss and could a device like this stop face to face communication all together to name just a few claims. Technology will
always have negative aspects because it depends on what the use of the technology is for and who is using it; Albert Einstein once said ‘Technological progress is like an axe in the hands of a pathological criminal’.
Against the backdrop:
a) Select a case
(CR-3)
b) Describe unexpected insight into the selected case.
(AN-4)
c) Examine social change in mobile phone usage and relate it to invention, innovation, and diffusion.
(AN-5)
d) Critique the behavioral reasoning theory in the selected case.
(EV-6)
e) Conjecture the introduction of innovation the key factor in technological advancement.
(CR-7)