Week 2 Ch. 1 Responce

Meredith Broussard is a software developer and journalist who writes to argue that, “it is not true that social problems would inevitably retreat before a digitally enabled Utopia” instead she strives to make it clear that, “if we start we start to understand the limits of what we can do with technology, we can make better choices about what we should do with it to make the world better for everyone”.

In Broussards book, Artificial Unintelligence, the idea the technology is our all mighty savor that is going to save our world and make it a better place than every before is acknowledged but soon shot down. It is explained the computers today run on facts and math and although they work well and are continually raising technologies standards they are also effecting human nature, which may be wear we see technology start to do more harm than help.

A quote mentioned in the article says, “when all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail”. The great technology that we have at our disposal today is a hammer. If this is true then why do we note see books, pencils and papers in schools, and universities like we once did before? It seems as though just one computer or tablet can handle everything any other tools could. Or can it. This writing challenges this idea. Technology is great, but only when it is the best tool for the task.

Except when people (with good intentions) use this technology under the impression that it is the end all be all tool o todays world, they are blinded and become unaware of the technologies cons. This is why Broussards stress the education of software, coding, and behind the scenes of technology. Overall in order to take control over the hammer that is technology we as a human race must immerse ourselves into computer science in order to dodge a computer ridden future.