I set out on a mission to interview several local college students in my home town. At Arizona Western College there is a vast variety of cultures, languages and customs; this is a great place to evaluate different responses about the view point of technology.
I was able to interview four students, for safety reasons and choice by the people who got interviewed their names will be changed. Larry, Berry, Cherry and Carrie are four very different people with personalities that contrast. Berry is attending the college to receive his nursing degree, he is 23 and has great interest in helping to save people. Technology is a great advantage to his life and he appreciates the possibilities that it gives the hospitals to save lives. He says that without technology more people would be dying and who knows what the numbers of the human race would be without the new modern medications, surgeries, and recovery courses they have with patience going through different types of therapy. Berry cannot see the world without technology, it has been a huge part of his life. Cherry is a young woman of 19 studying to get her degree in ultrasound, she uses technology every day through the internet to search for facts and information pertaining to her studies and curiosities. She also believes that technology is an important aspect of human life and without it many new born babies could have the risk of death if not taking the correct precautions. With the technology used for ultra sounds mothers can be told not only the gender of the baby, but also be informed if they have any dangers they may have to face.
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Carrie is a 21 year old woman who is studying to be a Nutritionist. She admits that she uses technology daily through her cell phone and the internet, but says that she wishes she would use her time more efficiently. A lot of the time Carrie is doing homework and conducting research for her nutrition classes, but she says she tends to become distracted and finds herself taking hours to complete an assignment that should've taken only half an hour. "Technology isn't something that is needed in our life, it's only something that us humans desire for selfish interests but helps very little" says Carrie when asked where her standpoint was on technology. Lastly there is one student who really interested me with his responses. Larry is taking courses at Arizona Western to become an athletic coach, he is 20 years old and has been attending the college since 2009 and has one more semester to go before he graduates. He uses technology through his video games, watching the news or other television shows, even keeping up to date with his favorite football team. Larry says that "technology can be taken in many ways depending on where your life is being taken; if you don't use technology then its more likely that person will go against it, but if your a computer programmer for NASA yes you will strongly agree that technology is beneficial. Many people use technology to make life easier, save lives, even to communicate with friends and family across the globe, but who has the right to say its wrong to use it? Yes someone can be abusing it by texting and driving or sexting but there are those out there who are clinging on to life with an oxygen tank and doctors at the ready." Larry's stand point and last comment was that technology has its amazing advantages, but it also has the ability to transform into a virus and harm those who are not protecting themselves.
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