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To be optimistic is to have a point of view that makes situations and events seem like they are positive even though the situation may not be positive at all. Tenner talked about people’s faith in technology from 1880-1929 - the electrical, mechanical and chemical advancement of society. In that time, people were so blinded by technology and the power it had to change society that they forgot some events like the sinking of the Titanic and World War 1. These were events in which people used technology, and the consequences of these technologies resulted in deaths of countless people.
For some reason people did not recognize the results of technology because they were so blinded by the technology itself. They didn't realize the negative effects of what they had created. In 1983, it was documented that television and computers had began changing moderately compared with the other mechanical, chemical and electrical revolutions of that time.
Rube Goldburg built complicated machines to solve simple problems, as Daniel J. Boorstin has called it " complicated ways of simplifying everyday life". He had a positive outlook and built contraptions that made the machine more complicated but the action easier. He is a great example of an optimist because he thinks that technology can be created and made to do any sort of task. He believed that you just had to create a task that was simple and make it even more refined.
Optimism is sometimes blinded by seeing only the positive side that inventions of technology presents to us. Therefore, we are just creating and inventing things that we can't stop. We can't seem to realize the negative effects that these technologies have on society and the world as a whole.
Works Cited:
Tenner, E. (1996). Chapter 1. Ever since frankenstein. Why things bite back: Technology and the revenge of unintended consequences. New York: Knopf.
For some reason people did not recognize the results of technology because they were so blinded by the technology itself. They didn't realize the negative effects of what they had created. In 1983, it was documented that television and computers had began changing moderately compared with the other mechanical, chemical and electrical revolutions of that time.
Rube Goldburg built complicated machines to solve simple problems, as Daniel J. Boorstin has called it " complicated ways of simplifying everyday life". He had a positive outlook and built contraptions that made the machine more complicated but the action easier. He is a great example of an optimist because he thinks that technology can be created and made to do any sort of task. He believed that you just had to create a task that was simple and make it even more refined.
Optimism is sometimes blinded by seeing only the positive side that inventions of technology presents to us. Therefore, we are just creating and inventing things that we can't stop. We can't seem to realize the negative effects that these technologies have on society and the world as a whole.
Works Cited:
Tenner, E. (1996). Chapter 1. Ever since frankenstein. Why things bite back: Technology and the revenge of unintended consequences. New York: Knopf.