PosterĄG Sharon Wu at 11:20:33 11/28/97 from c550-2.svdcc.fju.edu.tw
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| In fifty years, I really could not and I am afraid
to imagine what will become of our lives. Because as our technology are being fast developed and we have better equipment and facilities, there are more and more social problems, especially this year. Serious crimes were committed one after one; natural and hand-made disasters occur more and more frequently. Our world is not becoming better. Maybe it is those privileged people who have more power can always have a better life; those weak and poor live worse. There is not an equal resource allocation. Thus, I think for most common people, as Julia mentions in the book, "there will always be work for people to do" and since the competition will become hotter, our younger generations will live lives with much more pressures. Thus so what is the kind of life of the Hi-tech woman. I only know that the technology development changes and in some ways does improve our material life but at the same time I did not see our spiritual lives becoming better, or at least in Taiwan. It is really weird that since modern technological products save us a lot of time and we can say that we can have more time to do entertainment, what do we really make use of those time? Maybe just as what many people do after work, they lie down on the sofa and watch TV till falling asleep. Besides, the natural scenery is not as well as before and is infected by all kinds of pollution which happen to be due to the development of the modern technology. For example, we make cars, motorcycles which original purpose is to make our transportation faster; however, they turn out to produce the air pollution and what is worse is that too many cars and not enough road space slow down the speed of the cars ,and sometimes it costs our time much more. When in the very new morning we start our new days but breath the dusty air left by yesterday. Should we have to choose such life losing everything instead of getting the advantages of modern lives and also keeping what were good yesterday. In Taiwan, at least, I did not see the hope. Another is that I do think the rapid changes make us have to learn the day-to-day developed modern products like computers which have a very limited one- year product cycle and we have to be ready to take the new coming challenges. Maybe before the old we have not learned well, the new jumps out. In such surrounding, it is not only exciting but also hard to keep our moving forwards. We may easily become distracted. What we want may be just to make a lot of money in order to enjoy the modern technological products and forget about those technological products are only means to help us live more happily not only materially but more important is mentally. Maybe I am too critical and pessimistic. That is because sometimes I am confused about what do I really want and why. The social values make me think that the physically comfort is the priority and money can buy almost everything; holding more money is holding more power and privileges. Everything always has good sides and bad sides. One of the advantages I think in the convenience of portable phones. Since telephone plays a very important part in me life, I really love this modern product and I think it did bring each other closer. What is the love and care that really count. |