How Do They Do It?!?

It is amazing how far we have advanced since the 1830s. What makes it even more amazing is what made these inventors even think to start trying to figure out how to make life easier with these crazy inventions? Adobe Photoshop is a tool that is critical to my job function. Without it, I would not be able to product the graphics needed for projects. But as I sit there and use the program, it baffles my mind at the team of software writers at Adobe for creating such a powerful application. And not only does the application remain the top software in its category, the computers that are being developed use Photoshop as a benchmark for their processors, as well as high end graphically intense PC games. I mean, how do they even start to create anything like that? Not being a strong programmer, I just couldn’t even see where to begin. But ask me to create a graphic, you've got it! Much kudos to programmers and developers!

And then the idea of customizing lifestyles is happening everyday all around us with all the new technologies that supposedly are able to predict and read what we want to see and feel. The excerpt brings up web pages often about this because it seems to be the easiest method for customization. Websites can be programmed to leave cookies in the user’s computer in hopes to be able to retrieve the information later to display certain ads that the user had once expressed interest in previously. Working with HTML, I have built a website at my company that tracks the user’s data in a cookie that then we use to display themes and settings that they had chosen before. Even looking at how all the main search engines allow you to customize your main page to include the types of news and information that you are most interested in.

We are quickly moving into a time where we almost expect everything to be handed to us on a platter whether it is information on a website or the preferred temperature in a room that we spend most of our time in. Not trying to say that we are getting lazy, but our expectations of technology have gotten a lot higher and it is our human nature to try to push it to its limits.