Device Paradigm

In class of February 7, 2008 we discussed the device paradigm. The device paradigm claims that modern technology takes the form of devices that are opaque in the way that they work. I have to agree that with regard to modern technology the vast majority of the population does not understand how the basic appliances that we use today works. I believe that there is numerous reasons for this, one of which being most of the appliances we use are not made in America. When is the last time that you have seen a television that was made in a place other than Asia? If we are not even building these technologies then how are we supposed to be aware to the way in which they function? Another reason that we do not know how any of our devices works is because there is so much technology that changes so fast. What is the point of learning how to fix one technology when by the time you learn how to fix that technology it is outdated? I also believe that there is two much information and knowledge about too many things that we begin to become specialized in that field. In modern society it seems like people know about there given field lets say science and little about another field lets say history. We are in a post industrialized society in which people are placed in interdependence with one another. Since each of us is specialized in one thing it can increase the output and effectiveness of that one thing. So in conclusion, maybe we are opaque to some of the ways technology works but we became specialized and more efficient at other things.