Last week in class we talked about the Kinect. Before we talked about it, I had no idea it even existed. Shows how up-to-date I am with technology, right? We watched a video on YouTube about a lady using the Kinect to talk to a fake boy on the television screen. I must admit, it was pretty creepy. The boy was looking and talking to her as if he was in the same room as her. I'm not even going to get into how I don't understand the mechanics of the technology, all I'm going to talk about is the effects of it.
If this Kinect game becomes widely popular in the future, what is going to happen to humanity? If you can become friends with the fake Kinect people, why even bother having friends in real life? I'm not against the Kinect or anything, I just think it should be used for the right reasons. One of the right reasons I could think of would be for educational purposes in classrooms. Not taking the place of a teacher, but assisting the teacher in instructing the children. However, I don't think it should be used on someone who simply wants to a new friend. That would allow people to issolate themselves from society, to the point where there won't be any society at all. The point I'm trying to get across is that I think technology (the Kinect) is a great thing, only if it is used the right way.
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