Technology

BY: VINCENT MOSCO
When I started reading the article about technology and the different myths that are out there I could have cared less. I mean yes, technology is very important to us, in so many different ways, I mean, I’m using my apple Mac book right know. I love being in control of what Am doing, knowing what assignments I need to finish. Everything that is so practical is easy to access. The world is changing everyday and technology is changing with it.
Mosco talks about how we are confused when it comes to the different background about technology. Its like the unspoken of myths. “Cyberspace enthusiasts encourage us to think that we have reached the end of history, the end of geography, and the end of politics. Everything has changed. So we can apply the mute button to whatever has come before”. When I read that statement, I was like that is so right. I mean we never really look back to the start of technology. We never talk about the individuals who came up with is magic thing we call technology. We use it everyday, and yes, we do acknowledge some people like Bill Gates. But we rarely look at the founding fathers of technology.

“Consequently, we need to understand political economic pressures within the cultural context of meaningful myths that lifts us out of the day to day and designate us as a special, perhaps even a chosen, people. Put simply, we want to believe that our era is unique in transforming the world as we have known it.” (Mosco 118).
In that statement it gives an insightful look at what the world is all about. It’s pretty funny looking at all the different ways of understanding life in general. That quote made me think how computers would one day looked upon as old myth.
Overall, I thought the article was well written, and brought up a lot of the interesting facts.