Science and Technology: How Can They Change Our Mindset?

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Science and technology help to shape your mindset in many ways. Here are a few examples of this phenomenon.

There is no denying that we live in a technological age. Science is pushing our understanding to the edge of the intellectual precipice and beyond. Every day, the media reports how new advancements change the way we live and perceive the world around us. It is truly an exciting time in which to live. Science and technology also help to shape people's mindsets on many fronts. The following are a few examples of this phenomenon.

Social Involvement

From Facebook to Snap Chat, people have undergone a fundamental shift in their idea of how social interaction happens. Prior to the advent of the Internet, and smart phone technologies, social activities depended heavily on people meeting face to face. This maxim of social interaction no longer applies in the digitally driven Internet age. Today, people remain socially connected, through the use of modern tech, no matter how far away from people they happen to be. They carry their social networks with them everywhere they go. This is viewed as the new norm of how socialization is done. This has caused some people to adopt the notion of being hooked to a digital leash. It is a situation where changes in people's mindsets project a mixed response.

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Science and Nerds Are Now Cool

It used to be that science and the technology that it gave birth to was for the nerds. The nerds were typically pushed aside as social misfits. Today, now that people cannot live without technology pervasively engaging them at every turn, people's mindsets towards science have changed. Nerds are now cool, because the general public recognizes that these are the people bringing them the newest, latest gadgets. This has not simply had an effect on the mindset of people, it has made a tremendous impact on the role of science and nerds in popular culture as well.

Education Pushing Students to Become More Tech Savvy

In the past, the idea of high tech in the classroom was putting pen to paper and chalk to a chalkboard. Today, smart devices literally allow people to be educated through digitally developed platforms and apps.

Colleges and other learning institutions are adopting these modes of communication and instruction as a norm of the process of student education. Many of the courses students take, like this masters in computer science online, help to make them aware of the technology that is both at their fingertips and coming to them from around the corner. It is really just a matter of time before students will learn from artificially intelligent professors residing in virtual classrooms. Their mindset will be changed, not by other humans, but by computers that will tirelessly engage their many questions until deeper understanding is achieved. From artificially intelligent examples, like Siri and Watson, the foundations of this technology already exists and will tend to improve as science and technology continues to progress in this field of study.

Science and Tech for the Future

Science and technology have become the backbone of modern society. Whenever science gives rise to a new form of technology, the impact of new devices, gadgets and ways of performing daily tasks fundamentally changes the mindset of people by reshaping how their world operates. As people transition into the next phase of the tech boom, embracing the Internet of Everything, this will allow technology to more pervasively infiltrate their lives on a more intimate level. Once again, people's mindsets will be reshaped to fit into this next step of the science and technology driven outcome of the ever advancing digital evolution.

By Meghan Belnap

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