The Digital Age

The reading had compelling and relevant topics about the times we live and our profession. It is important to think about how technology affects us especially as we enter a digital profession, and a world that is becoming increasingly digitalized as we speak. The differences between man and machine are quite apparent in our day and age. However, there are theories that explore the possibility that one day machines my be indistinguishable from humans. If for example, your were to place a human brain and a computer programmed to responded and act like a human brain, in a box and asked them the same questions, and both answered exactly the same how can you tell the difference between man and machine. As technology and the processing power of machines grows exponentially, every so many years, the ability for machines to replicate human traits becomes increasingly of a reality.

Perhaps this connection between machines can be felt even now. As the author suggest machines have caused humans to become increasingly meticulous about their, work, looks, and every day life. A connection that can be made between something organic that humans have made into to a mechanical process, is one that is the most important for human survival. That connection is food processing. In America there are thousands of cattle ranches with millions of cows that are treated as a number in a computer system. Just like the customers that eat their processed meat. It is no longer about what is healthy for human consumption it is now about how fast food can be produced and how fast it can be consumed. Our entire world is about how fast things and be transferred and consumed and how efficiently those things can be done. Computers and the digital age we live in has created an entirely new human experience in the way that we communicate and interact with each other.