After much thought and having read a lot of my fellow classmates responses to the topic of "Next New Thing," I have a very dark outlook for the long run. I see where technology is taking us, we are becoming ever so dependent on technology and what it does for us. Our need to be connected with one another is becoming a more and more distant long shot if not for the use of technology. Our dependence will someday become a crutch; one fellow classmate referenced the movie "iRobot" when speaking about our future outlook, I would refute this and counter with a more bleak outlook as is the case in the Pixar movie, "WALL-E," where we become so dependent on machines and tech doing things for us. In the movie, even menial tasks were undertaken by machines; things like walking were no longer necessary, this caused humans to gain vast amounts of weight and their bones to weaken and become smaller.
I know that this is a rather grim outlook, but it falls back on our inability to do things the hard way, always looking to make things more simpler. We have to find the very fine balance between innovation and practicality. Sometimes you have to ask, "Sure we can make a better mouse trap, the question is why?"
