As much as I think some forms of technology have really benefited society, I think a lot of times it has negatively affected us. Instantaneous communication, for example, is something that has instigated the rise of problems like bullying. When kids and teenagers go home, they are still connected to their peers through the Internet. If they are having issues with bullying at school, it will follow them home. This is just one aspect I don't like about this form of technology.

I believe that technology like this is extremely useful to us today. For example, tele-med visits have become more and more apparent after the lockdown during the pandemic. During that time, there were instances I needed a doctor and it was nice to know that this was an option. I also think this is useful when it comes to people with disabilities that might not be able to come into the office. Technology like this has made some things way more assessable to people and I think that's such a great thing.

This kind of reminds me of the game 'Operation'! I know its the opposite reaction to what happened here, but the doctor being able to feel the vibration of the probes and forceps reminds me of when you hit the side when trying to retrieve a piece in the game. Besides this, I think that this is an amazing way to use this technology during that time period. I'm quite intrigued on how they did this.

I think this is interesting compared to how people communicate today. When telegraphy was introduced, people were expected to decide things quicker and respond faster. Now in the age of technology, I've noticed that people are not expected to do this anyone. Its actually more acceptable to wait on responding to messages. People also have used this as a way to brainstorm and curate responses. I have always thought this was such a strange expectation of texting etiquette.

I never realized or thought about how telegraphic communication would influence the time of the rails. I can see how it would make it faster like stations being able to communicate with one another to get specific times. Also now that people knew what time the trains were coming, they didn't have to wait such a long time at the stations. Once again, I never thought about this connection but I think its pretty amazing.

I feel like this has become one of the more important aspects of my life since becoming an adult. As a voter, I have made sure that I'm staying informed and doing my research to make choices based on fact, and using those facts to base my opinions. Unfortunately, I have seen places in the United States start to resort to a dangerous method of teaching, banning certain aspects of history to make it look better. I think as we see more of this happening, the more confusing it will be for our younger generation to grow up.

There are so many different examples of how our modern day is still affected by things that have happened in our past. An example that I think about often is the effects The War on Drugs' still has today. The extreme sentencing of drug-related crimes continues to increase over the years. The population of people who were convicted of drug-related crimes has increased more than 500 percent, making it half of the federal prison population. That's just an example that came to mind, but a lot of other things are still affected by our history.

This passage reminds me a lot about the resurfacing of past fashion trends and art in today's society. As an example, I know 70's fashion and aesthetics have been making quite the comeback over the past few years. Many people, including myself, are very much appreciative of the styles of people like Stevie Nicks and Jane Birkin. I have seen my style start to incorporate aspects of these women and other influence artists of the time. I know this wasn't related to the part about human understanding, but I'm always fascinated by the way trends can come and go, and then come back again in the future.

I personally have been wanting to look deeper into my family history for a long time! Growing up, I feel like my family did a good job at trying to incorporate our family heritage into our lives. My great grandmother and grandfather were both Slovakian, so I grew up eating lokse and kolacky and celebrating Russian Christmas (on top of American Christmas.) The other side of my family is Irish / Welsh, but we didn't really have many traditions. As I've grown up, we have done less and less of this and its made me feel like I've lost a little part of my identity. So a goal of mine is to start digging around into the archives of my family and possibly get that spark of identity back that I feel I've lost.