Aaron D. Neufeld- BLOG #5- ‘Future Tech’
Looking through photographs, I began thinking about what my future would look like. When I am older and looking back on my past, what will I see? What will I be looking at? Putting the actual content of the photographs aside, what platform will I be viewing pictures on? In the twenty years of my life I’ve already lived, I’ve viewed photographs on various platforms and my parents have seen even more! From shaking Polaroid photos to instant digital photos in not even half a century! My European grandparents could never even grasp the idea of the Internet or the digital world at all. My last remaining grandparent; my grandfather on my mom’s side, is bewildered at how I can take photos of him on my cell phone!
After months of getting him to understand that today’s phones can also take photos, I decided to take a huge jump forward and show him a photo I just took of him, on my laptop in full size. He didn’t understand that the photo he was looking at was the same photo I just took. The instant process doesn’t make any sense to him at all. I had to explain how I sent the photo to my computer through something I had to describe as similar to e-mail. He vaguely understood and I’m not sure if he was more impressed or perplexed. When this man was a child, photographs were a rare luxury. Now he is supposed to grasp the idea the photos can be taken on computers, phones, portable music players (mp3 players), etc. What is the point in a camera anymore? I can’t even begin to imagine what technology lay ahead for myself. In the past ten years alone we were introduced to YouTube, and iPods. iPods went from bulky music players to mini computers with video chatting! The next ten years will surely blow our minds.
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