Technology's Epic Story

     Technology is more than the electronics that you use to talk to your friends and family, it is not just the coffee makers, watches, and tools that you use to make things easier throughout the day. Technology as defined by Kevin Kelly in his TED talk "Technology's Epic Story" can be traced all the way back to the big bang, and is simply any new information. Kelly points out that there are no bad ideas just like there are no bad children. We have to find the right uses for the technologies that we are inventing. We will continue inventing and finding uses for technologies as we always have, and like the invention of organisms, language, computers and more, we will become a part of these technologies. Having new innovations means new choices, more freedoms and greater possibilities. This is why people move into cities or even go to school, and it is why we must never stop the improvement of technology.

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     Watching this video really got me thinking on what technologies will come about in the future, but more importantly where do we want these new technologies to take us. I believe that innovations should combine available knowledge and resources fort the betterment of humankind. Technology is an extension of our own species and even earths evolution, but to quote George Carlin in his darkly comical standup act, "The world will be here long, long after we are gone...It is a self correcting system." Technology, man made or not, will continue, and I believe it is up to our society to keep up.