Technology’s Always Been Here

My friend Karmann and I were watching a TV show on ABC.com last night. We noticed that the same five commercials kept getting repeated, so at one point we became bored enough to start analyzing them (the commercials would come on every five minutes so you can understand our boredom). What we realized is that most of the commercials were advertising some newfound version of a piece of technology like the Galaxy S7 edge. We began wondering why most commercials did this. Back when we were kids, we remembered seeing commercials for little kid versions of laptops and cellphones. It seems like, even when we were children, the advertising industry has been dominated by the idea of technology. However, when we were kids, we had to have the imagination for most of it to be fascinating, whereas nowadays, it seems as though imagination is being taken out because the “adult” technology thinks for us instead. We just thought it was interesting that the more imaginative, interactive technology is being pushed out while computers that can think for people are being pulled in.