Technology Good or Bad?

“More and more, we’re being asked to live with technology that is technically reliable, because it was created to fit our knowledge of the physical world, but that is so complex or so counterintuitive that it’s actually unusable by most human beings” (Vicente: 17). Both, Vicente and Vonnegut’s stories were very interesting reads based on the beliefs of technology and what individuals such as themselves think of the use of technology. Both author’s seem to share their different thoughts about technology. Vicente has a very negative view of technology and expresses his opinions very strongly all throughout the story. I think that, indeed, technology does infact take a great tole upon our lives. Without technology we wouldn’t beable to get bigger answers and discover things as well as we can now. However, Vicente talks about medical uses of technolgy and the fact that even though it does help us find answers, sometimes it doesn’t give us the answers that we need or isn’t as useful as we need it to be. It’s obvious that Vicente thinks of technology as being used too much, and I can agree with him to an extent, but we still do need technology in this world to make discoveries and things to keep humans living. Vonnegut’s opinions of technology, on the other hand, to me seem a bit different than Vicente’s opinions. In Vonnegut’s story, he makes his story about a man who goes around and tries to write a book based off smart individuals who have made brilliant discoveries based off technology and science. It seems that Vonnegut is trying to get his readers to see that technolgy brings our the best in people’s minds. Vicente mentioned this kind of information in his story in saying that people are already smart, but technology makes the minds smarter. Both author’s discuss other ideas of technology, and things that allow people to see that without technology, the would would be a lot different.
Vicente talks about “the human factor” to what my understanding means that technology is what makes a person. Technology is the “human factor” of life. Either you are controlled by it, or you control it. This is where Vicente and Vonnegut’s view points differ a little bit because Vicente’s points in her story seem to say that, yes, technology is a great thing, but is it too controlling of our lives? While reading her story, I didn’t come to the realization of how much technologyreally can control our lives to a very high extent. In addition, Vonnegut’s story has a guy that travels around to all places trying to get more information on brilliant people who have dealt with science and technology, and he makes it seem like technology is a good thing based off the kinds of things it has brought to the world. I guess, in my own personal opinion, we absolutely need technolgy. Yes, it doesn’t always give us the answers we need right away and can be controlling, but without it we wouldn’t have half the things we do today.