Christina Journal Entry #4

It's absolutely mind blowing how humans have created what we have today. We've created phones in 1876, light bulbs in 1879, and how can we forget the internet in 1969. Our knowledge of technology continues to be enriched with more and more information, and material needed becomes more accessible. Living now compared to the early 1800's is like an unwanted piece of hair in a bowl of soup. We can consider the past to be the hair and the present the soup. It's impressive how we have clean water at the touch of our fingertips, and colourful pixel displays, showing whatever we want for our spoiled needs. The hairy past, has nothing on such a bright and appealing present, right? Or we can view the present as the unwanted hair? Air has never been so polluted, resources are becoming scarce, animals are disappearing, and Earth itself is just hurting. Technology has benefitted humans and poked fun at the only planet that supports life. Tell someone that planting trees will give them free wi-fi, then they may plant 10's, 100's or heck, maybe even 1000's! But tell them it only produces oxygen for us to breath, how many would actually get their hands dirty? Blast into the future and we can potentially be living our lives like Deckard. Desiring real animals because they've become such rare treasures or injecting fake emotions because we can't handle reality. Is technology manipulating us, or are we just too greedy, stuck in our own little world to realize that we are destroying Earth?