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Digital Technology Age and Culture

Digital ubiquity is now very evident. Smartphones, tablets, computers, and so as all other
gadgets can now be seen anytime and anyplace in the world. But as many of the young nowadays
have been born into this Golden era clueless of the challenges we and our predecessors were
faced with, it may be important for us to answer the question, How did we arrive at this point?
The coming of the three waves of technology in the 1900s (the invention of mechanical
gadgets such as the computers, the integration of the internet of things, and the construction of
built-in sensors in devices) is the signal of the advent of the digital culture
Digital culture is one where the use of digital devices such as our cellphones, tablets, and
computers is already integrated in our everyday academic life, work life, and social life an
important advancement for mankind. This integration carried almost all our societys sectors
(agriculture, business, economics, etc.) nowadays one level higher, together with the necessary
level of operational efficiency required in accomplishing them.
Businesses, in response to the availability of better technology, have adapted to the need
to move faster and more efficient. This is the reason why we would see some businesses
employing advance digital cognitive-computing technology like the Watson and Softlayer, built
by the famous International Business Machines (IBM) Corp., for a much more synchronized and
faster operation. We would also see the medicinal field employing imaging and computer
assisted systems like the magnetic resonance imaging and X-ray computing tomography and the
agricultural field like tractors with integrated self-monitoring systems which are all for the
purpose of improving and coping to the fast changing need of modern society.

On the other hand, we would also see similar gadgets in our day-to-day encounters such
as smartphones used by our friends sometimes for the sole purpose of a convenient means of
communication like making calls with relatives (especially those in abroad), entertainment
through playing games, and work through making power point presentations related to their jobs
or academic life.
Revolutionizing tools which promote a huge boost of efficiency and convenience greater
than any of our past advancement have really contributed to molding this faster pace, very
productive, and awe-inspiring lifestyle.
Try imagining your everyday life without your current cellphones, computers, and social
media sites. Would you prefer living back using airmails to electric mails (e-mails) when
communicating to relatives abroad?
The same logic applies for why we use our current day to day gadgets over stone tools
weve learned, created, discovered, or used from the Pre-Neolithic era. We seek and do
innovation not to show our intellectual superiority over other organisms, but rather for the larger
purpose of improving our lives and making them a whole lot easier and better than those of our
predecessors.
Our society has long pursued the course of technological advancement ever since man
learned to use stone tools. We have continued to search, discover, and invent new tools to make
their work easier and faster (more efficient) and make use of these ones to innovate and invent
some more. We could say man treats technology like a religion, and we worship technology, with
all its promise of convenience and of making life more comfortable and easier. But as more and
more are born clueless to the challenges presented our way towards this current civilization,
many become too submissive to this religion. They become too lax (from the taste of its) of its

sweet promises and allures such that the promise of efficiency and a better life is not
fundamentally achieved. As a better life entails more than the gift to have time for fun and
games, a better life means that we achieve wholesome living accompanied with the feeling of
success and achievement from doing something which we could consider important. So why not
use this technology and invent some more? How about contributing to our society for our current
generation and for the generations to come? Or would you choose to enjoy your life sitting
behind your computers or in front of your phones waiting for replies, tweets, and instagram
messages from your friends. Its time to make a decision. Make your decision.

The famous inventors Charles Babbage (programmable computer), Martin Cooper

(mobile phones), and Steve Jobs (iphone) could be considered as the main proponents of the
digital age for they advocated the use of equipment not only centered on the hardware itself, but
ones capable of processing abstract digits/data. As their inventions later on have revolutionized
the use of digital technology in modern society, we could say their advent themselves were
important in modling our current culture.

The connections resulting from the internet of things (use of cloud/world wide web) have
augmented the current equipment we are currently using through better synchronization between
a production line and its suppliers for example.

tied with their work (i.e. making presentation slides or accepting calls from their bosses),
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and tablets due to the adaptation of our generation to the gadgets and

To make computations related to their work much easier, faster, and more efficient.