http://www.apple.com/iphone/#video
Apart from the instantaneous, almost magical appeal of the iPhone, in my presentation I brought up several key features such as these:
- Beautiful high resolution screen
- Siri
- E-mail functionality
- Camera quality
- Intuitive design
- Lightning port that goes to HDMI
- Facetime capabilities
This technology is not one that the authors of our readings would argue against; the potential for learning and development on the iPhone is astounding. I shall begin to conclude with a poem:
Iphones are black
Iphones are white
Never out of mind
Never out of sight
Can be used for work,
Can be used for school,
Iphones are everything
But infinitesimal.
Apart from the levity, this really is the case. As the vice president of Apple said in the attached video, the iPhone is one of the few things that if one leaves their house without it, they go back and get it. It has become and integral part of our daily lives, and like I said before, this is for the better. The level of communication we are able to achieve is remarkable; over the cellular network, we can make calls, send text messages, and video chat with others around the world. I state, of course, my own humble opinion, but I believe that the iPhone is a device that makes the world a better place.
Iphones are white
Never out of mind
Never out of sight
Can be used for work,
Can be used for school,
Iphones are everything
But infinitesimal.
Apart from the levity, this really is the case. As the vice president of Apple said in the attached video, the iPhone is one of the few things that if one leaves their house without it, they go back and get it. It has become and integral part of our daily lives, and like I said before, this is for the better. The level of communication we are able to achieve is remarkable; over the cellular network, we can make calls, send text messages, and video chat with others around the world. I state, of course, my own humble opinion, but I believe that the iPhone is a device that makes the world a better place.
Your comment about never leaving the house reminds me of the passage in iDisorder when Rosen writes about our dependence on technology. He believes that we are hooked on, and even addicted to, our smartphones. As an iPhone owner, I know that I feel lost and discombobulated when I don't have my phone with me. I know I am one of many who feel this way. I'm constantly checking my phone for text messages, e-mails, and group messages. This causes me to wonder...is this dependence affecting our generation in a negative way? Rosen would say yes, but I can see that this could have both positive and negative effects.
ReplyDeleteHow is the dependence at all negative? The word dependence usually comes with a negative connotation, but feeling needs is not always a bad thing. For example, we need to exercise to be healthy, but no one would call the habit of daily exercise negative. This is how I see the iPhone; it is a tool that makes life easier and better. It unleashes new methods of learning that never used to be possible.
DeleteJosh, I wonder if you wouldn't mind describing these "new methods of learning that never used to be possible." To me it seems that the chief advantage of carrying a smart phone is continuous access to encyclopedic knowledge, but, to me, this knowledge seems worthless without the context and skills of interpretation and application earned by traditional study methods, i.e. reading multiple sources on a single topic with enough time to reflect on how that topic bears on human life.
ReplyDeleteAt the dinner table, friends with smart phones call up one disparate fact after another, as if this (often incorrect) "knowledge" substituted for substance. Meanwhile, I hunger for real conversation, something that speaks of a man's experiences, the things that he has done with his own hands and seen with his own eyes. This is the stuff of life.
Hayden
An iPhone owner myself, I have never wanted to rid myself of an object as much as I have of the iPhone after reading iDisorder. While the technology itself is undoubtedly "cool", its abuse most certainly is not. The way in which people are entrapped in this one little phone in public is, in my opinion, the leading factor in the disintegration of meaningful human contact. Very little in the world bothers me more than when a good conversation is interrupted by a glance at a phone. "I can do both at the same time," is the common justification. Sure, you can do tons of things at once, but as each new task is added, some effort is taken out of another.
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