After watching the Youtube video Alex Kipman: A Futuristic Vision of the age of
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Question
After watching the Youtube video Alex Kipman: A Futuristic Vision of the age of Holograms, I want you to play the part of a futurist. How do you think this 3D holographic technology, once it is available to a wide consumer base, will affect the way we sense and perceive the world around us? In your response, allude to Chapter 5 in Pyschology of Everyday life 4th edition, sensation and perception . How do you think we may grow as human beings with this technology? And do you perceive any negative implications in the development of technology like Alex Kipman describes?
Explanation / Answer
With the extent of globalization and the aim to overcome the geographical distance, it isn't a surprise that our interactions range over an expanse, which is beyond our human physical capacity to curtail. For that reason precisely, the new communication apps and social networking sites have garnered incredible success as far as communication is concerned.
New technology has rendered past technology redundant, and this a truth which is embedded deep within our historical roots since time immemorial. Telephones replaced letters, Cordless phones replaced telephones, mobile phones replaced cordless phones, so on and so forth. And this will continue for more years to come, as science ad scientists are ambitious to break bounds, and challenge their old working models by better ones.
Consumerism has taken a hold over the world, it is about competition and capitalizing ones position in the market in order to gain higher momentum, and, hence, garner even higher levels of profit.
As far as the question of whether it will affect the manner in which we sense and perceive the world around us, the answer would be: Most definitely. According to Auguste Comte - the father of Positivism - the information derived from all sensory experience (sight, smell, touch, hearing, taste) if broken down and understood by logic and reason, forms exclusive source of all authoritative knowledge. It is, in lay terms, based on empiricism, which will ceate a new perceptive environment.
If and when, with the advent of holographic technology, it would be made available to consumers across, it would definitely affect the way we would perceive the circumscribing world. The process and channel of communication would experience a tectonic shift, and not only would this shift be confined to communication, but also to the way in which knowledge would be imparted and perceived; creating an entirely new experience that would, most probably, lead to a higher levels of comprehension and build intellectual curiosity.
And there is also a general consensus on learning better in praxis than in principle. Educationalists all around would be able to almost physically assess and analyze many phenomenons, which haven't been possible until now.
Although, with every advancement and achievement that science pockets: there are risks of them having a gross negative impact on human beings. We, as a race, have not been able to put a lid on the multitude desires we fester along with the growing demands of the present world, which inevitably, and ironically, leads (will lead) to our doom.
While swaying away from our inherent roots, that is the conventional form of interaction and learning, there might be the gain of scientific/practical development, but a potential loss of moral significance.
With a new technological advancement there are always a plethora of pros and cons attached to the very fiber of it, but it depends on our race on how we choose to exploit it. Although, our history does indeed point towards our race not being the wisest (and brightest) with new technological advancements, but that doesn't mean we completely neglect and overlook their good aspect and end up demonizing them.