I born in the late 80´s, my Dad in 1949, and my brother in
the 90´s we are definitely form different generations and have seen technology
change in several ways. In my case all what I study at Uni back in Perú using
computers, programming, configuring routers and making systems models,
everything have change. Now computers have different Operative Systems, The way
to configure routers has change and there are new models of system
development. In conclusion I will never
end studying. But if you think that is a big change in technology lets talk
about what happen to my dad in his long professional career.
My dad is a Commercial Airplane Pilot with 43 years
experience. One of the biggest changes in his career is that he depends from a
computer now. When he start as a pilot everything was manual.
“I used to set up everything manual, now I give orders to a computer,
is like playing flight simulator”
That is something
that change his career mostly because the computer replace what a human used to
do. There was something called a flight engineer before, he used to do all the
tasks the computer do now, before they were 3 people in the cockpit now there are
2 and a computer.
With flight engineer
With out flight engineer (either case I don´t understand it)
It doesn´t feel right for my dad but my brother that is studying
to be a pilot in this new generation, is loving it. For him is easy going and easy to understand.
Because of this, there was a huge economy change in companies. They invest changing old airplanes for new ones and forget about flight engineer salaries. My dad have seen lots of flight
engineers lose their jobs, because companies didn´t want to promote all of them and make them pilots or
second officers, because there were not enough spots. “you can´t fit 3 if there is
only space for 2”.
Following Appadurai's 5 –scapes we can say that Technoscapes
bring about new types of cultural interactions and exchanges through the power
of technology, which can now happen at unprecedented speeds. Technology, of
course, is very close tied with the economy, which is constantly in flux and,
despite our best efforts to manipulate, is wildly unpredictable and change
every day.
References:
Rantanan, T 2005, ‘Theorizing media and globalisation’, Media
and globolisation 2005, SAGE Publications, London, pp. 6
Appadurai, A. (1990) ‘Disjuncture and Difference in the
Global Cultural Economy’, Theory Culture Society, Sage Publications, London.
