2. What do you see as a potential future for the development of technologies heading towards? Do you perceive it as heqding more towards texting or perhaps is the use of texting now a side effect of a lack of mobile technology that would allow the user to write complete or more thought-provoking sentences. Why do you agree or disagree. Justify your answer.
The more advanced technology becomes, the easier it becomes to carry it with us. For instance, the telephone used to be attached to the wall. Telephones then evolved so that we could carry them around the house without a cord. And now, we have cell phones that we can carry across the world. I think that the next step(far, far in the future, though) is having a chip inside of our brains that we do not have to hold. Anyone can contact us at anytime (I haven't been watching too many sci-fi movies, I swear). Of course, how soon this will happen, I am not sure. It may get to a point that as soon as a baby is born, the chip will become surgically placed inside his/her brain instead of it being optional. This has many drawbacks in regards to privacy, of course, but then again, in the future it may not be seen as invasion of privacy. After all, people used to think that a telephone inside of their homes was an invasion of privacy but now they don't.
In regards to texting, I think that maybe texting devices will all have a stylus so that it will be faster to write/text. The problem here is what the book, txting the gr8 db8 notes: if someone's handwriting is bad, the device will not input the correct letters/words. The stylus, for people with good handwriting, will aid in longer and more complex sentences and thoughts.
I obviously agree(from what I wrote above) that texting will have to change eventually since it is hard to type long sentences quickly on a cell phone.
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