Reading response for March 2

Technology and our brains is interesting in that our brains are easily able to adapt to whatever new stimuli it is given.
Having grown up with the new technology of the Internet, I don't know a time where the internet was not present. My father is in the technology industry and as such I have grown up with old and new technology but the internet was always present in my life.

I am not surprised that we are evolving to match our current technology. Humans have always used tools in order to continue to adapt to our situation. The Internet and mobile devices as well as other electronics are no different.

Having grown up around arcade machines and having had a programmer as a father, I have grown up and adapted to many new and increasingly faster technologies. The arcade machines seem archaic in comparison to the fact I can play touch responsive games on my mobile phone. Let alone the fact that I have many different mobile devices that have more computing power than the bulky desktop computers that I had as a child.

My father was using the Internet when it was still primarily messaging boards that engineers and other technologically proficient early adopters.

This having been said, my parents were careful ad to when they exposed us to what technology. My brother and I didn't have access to our own computer, which we shared and had dial up, until I was six. And it was downstairs where my mom could monitor us.

I didn't even get a cell phone until I was 13 and was on my school's track team so it was purely for logistical purposes.

Parents are the gatekeepers of technology for their children. And often expose their children to these technologies before these children might actually be ready to handle the technology.

My best friend has a 10 month old daughter and every time I am with her all she wants is to play with my phone. However, my friend has also made sure her daughter has access to physical copies of books like we did when we were her age.

As technology changes, we must adapt both our methods of parenting and our methods of adoption of this technology.

Biotechnology is a very real future. We must just be careful to not abuse what we have.