fleeting course of technology

I finally got some money and decided to invest besides a bit of my  money to technology. everything from a few hundred to games, and it’s in app purchases, to writing apps, to recording apps. I also will spend a sum of money on repairs plus upgrading a braille screen and acquiring a larger screen. This has gotten to me to reflect.

 

It is interesting how in this age of technology how we have so many options in apps that perform similarly but yet differently. Some companies make products more suited for ones needs and another another’s needs.

 

We look about us and we see a variety of devices, with a variety of apps. It is interesting to contemplate how much technology can do and how far it has come. technology can do many thousands of things  that just a few years ago there were a few thousands less, that we wouldn’t dream of. 

 

I posted my last entry roughly 5 years prior to this, and may it be much shorter until my next writing and contemplation, hopefully right???

 

In that five years we have seen massive changes in technology and growth in innovations. a five year old technology isn’t very old, but in the tech world it’s almost considered long lasting especially if it’s a computer. I got this unit I am typing on a year prior to the writing of the last entry or about. and they’ve come up with much thinner units in terms of laptops, even software boxes have grown thinner. The amount of storage spaces have dramatically increased and things have gotten smaller. What you may need special machines for or things you would not think a computer could do yet, has been figured out.

 

The ingenuity that have brought about these changes, and the human creativity that has worked on such innovations.

 

I recently got more money then I would usually and decided to perform a makeover for my technology. To make it productive and useful and helpful to me. I looked through the entire museum of app entries posted on this site which rates how accessible each app is. I felt as if I was traversing a hall of a grand library or even museum of app archives. It was certainly an interesting experience. seeing when these apps were in fashion, and how much more innovative we have gotten. there was apps for converting to formats where you can listen to music offline on your iPod. oh wait….., except who does that anymore? Now even the poorest person has netflix and HULU, or spotify, pandora, or apple music. Gone are the days when mp3 players were cool and hip and you brought them around to listen to music.

 

I remember I bought a nano in 2011 and I thought it was pretty cool. It was my first IOS device. I know you are saying, it’s not much of an iOS device, but it was….. Then I got the iPhone 5. it was the coolest toy and the neatest game in town. Now an iPhone or an iPad does it all and you have three powerful cameras on the newest ones. Long gone are those old ancient third rate devices from a 2020 perspective. except they were not quite third rate back then. they were excellent and neat in 2012 or so. an iPhone 4s seem so basic, almost barbaric now. who on earth uses that anymore? some old fart without sense probably!!!!!!!! 

 

It’s mind boggling to think of all of this. digital music was well on it’s way but in a lot of ways was just starting and phasing out of the CDS was happening in the early 2010s.

 

It’s a chaotic and fascinating world a tech world is it not?

An Inner psychological sense.

Many in the world claim artlessly that they are who they are either because they simply are that way or rather that it is merely because. They argue that one needs no reason to be or no reason that they have become the person who they are today.Is this true?

 

Are we always a constant static entity? Is our nature set as either bad or good from birth? An English philosopher in the eighteenth century named John Locke proposed a theory known as tabula rasa or the blank slate. This theory claims that we were born with a blank mind and only our senses and through our experiences that we understand. It is the unfolding of events which have developed in  our person, which causes a person to become who they are at any given point in time. The truth is people are not able to fully grasp this reality most times simply by living. Most use there outwards five senses, which are sight, hearing, taste, smell, and touch. there are also inner senses which are not psychological that we utilize daily such as the senses of hunger, thirst, tiredness, sickness, weakness, etc… etc… With only these senses it is not illogical that some sees who they are as an individual is almost magical or occult. 

 

reflection is the inner most sense which exists. It is to sense yourself, and to be acquainted with yourself. If one thinks back or examines records of who they were one is able to gain much insight both on how to improve  and how they are presently who they are. One must critically analyze this data by asking themselves analytical questions. Such questions may be. Why did I act this why? and question yourself further when you have answered the question down to what you hold as convictions. what was your reasoning and thought process was then. Did you hold as truths different premises and ideals? What ideas/reasoning was developed from these events and what events was triggered by this event? What other events did these words or events trigger or what triggered these words that were spoken? How did you as an individual effectively cause these words to be said and what effect or consequences did these words have on you? Etc… Etc……

 

 

I thought I would amuse myself and prove to someone what character I was when I was. reading through archives has been rather reflective, and enlightening. It has taught me much about who I was, why I am the person I am now, how human nature works, what action there can be from a reaction, what direction I could take, and how I came to who I am presently. 

 

This proves the power of reflection and demonstrates the working of reflection as Descartes theorizes it in the eighteenth century. It also if reflected upon and this did not come to me until I sat down to write this that it proves Locke’s theory of tabula Rasa. This then proves rather well why we are the way we are and helps define who we are. This makes the just because reason seem rather vague and substanceless.