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Monday, July 24, 2006

Smart Suds

In today's Brattleboro Reformer, Monday July 24th page five, was an article about a new technology. Smart washer and dryers which can be manipulated via home networks and cell phones. I agree with the comment made by Laura Champine "I think this is a great example of people using a new technology to solve a problem that doesn't exist".

The above link is to a story describing the technology not what appeared in the Reformer as I could not find it to download.

I think that this is a fairly good summation about mcuh of what we have covered throughout this course. While it is important and some might say imperative to know about "new" technologies I am beginning to feel like this is the beginning of a new type of something akin to "political correctness" or as Ken Kesey said" either your on the bus or off the bus".

While mixing my metaphors I believe that the read write web 2.0 is a creation of people creating technologies that may in the beginning have served some noble purpose but have grown into meaningless repositories of blah, blah, blah.

Is there hope I am not sure. My next post will discuss the 600 identities of our future.

posted by Mark Nolan @ 11:06 AM   1 comments

1 Comments:

At 10:28 PM, Blogger Elaine said...

While mixing my metaphors I believe that the read write web 2.0 is a creation of people creating technologies that may in the beginning have served some noble purpose but have grown into meaningless repositories of blah, blah, blah.

Is there hope I am not sure. My next post will discuss the 600 identities of our future.

Is there hope for what? I wonder if your reaction is because you are now saturated with these new technologies? I also get the sense though, that you tend to be a bit cynical in nature, so perhaps you are reacting a bit in character? And what are "the 600 identities of our future"? It sounds like its going to be depressing....

 

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