Miss Q
Chemistry
22 August 2014
Technology Advancing in Society
The transition into a more technologically advanced society is something that the average individual doesn't have a total grasp over. The transition itself is a phase of society that happens as a result of the general public's collective actions towards technology. In this day and age, we are already incredibly advanced in our technological efforts, just the thought of becoming more centered on technology is intimidating. Many believe we will follow a similar fate as the fictional society of Earth in Pixar's film Wall-E, in which humans appear to be reduced to immobile inhabitants--confined to hovering chairs and video-screens--upon a generation ship in outer space. Concepts like these are what primarily influences the uninformed, and therefore, awareness movements and overall education of today's advancing technological sciences should continue to be supported and implemented across the world.
As far as society has come over the years, it seems that our educational system has not proved to follow suit.
The emblem of the National Technological Universit...
The entrance to Pixar's studio lot in Emeryville, ...
Iran Hostage Crisis student demonstration, Washing..."According to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, which surveyed more than 150,000 people age 16 to 65 in 24 different countries ⦠The U.S. ranked 21 out of 23 countries in math and 17 out of 19 countries in problem solving in the October study." (Beard, Katherine. "Behind America's Decline in Math, Science and Technology" US News US News and World Report LP, 13 Nov 2013. 20 Aug 2014.) Education has been, as far as the generation of children born in the 1990s are concerned, the first introduction to both personal and necessary usage of technology and the technological sciences in an individual's life. However, today's generation of children seem to have forms of technology introduced to them as early as their toddler stages. The new dependency on...