Blog 7

This chapter went much deeper into the technology and how it relaties to our society of today then any of the other chapters. This chapter to me seem to show us how technology relates to humans cultures. It talks about how when a technology advice is used in a culture the culture itself changes as a whole. One example from the text is the australians sardine cans. They use these as a center piece for their headwear. they used it for headgear on the pure fact of its shape. To them the can is only a object not a can and they percieve that it is used for your head because it is circular. Another example from the text was the different uses of the clock. We use the clock as a time keeper where as in the text the chinese clock is used as a astromonical calender. It is used to keep what we call a calender. After this Ihde starts talking bout how first and third world countries differ. His mai point was in order to become a very sucessful country you have to be technologically advanced and in order to do that you have to be educated. This is why the first world countries are so much more advanced then the third world coutnries.