Misuse of technology.

Personally, I believe that the technology that we have today is so misused by the consumers because they simply don't understand the power of the device that they actually have. For example in 1969 NASA managed to send man up to the moon. The computer that they used was one of the best of its time. The mission had a 2.048 MHz CPU computer. We can now find calculators that have better CPU than this

The first the first generation iPhone had 620MHz(which got under clocked to about 412MHz.) And the CPU in the iPhones gradually increased to 600MHz for the iPhone 3G S and 800MHz for the iPhone 4 and iPhone 4 S. So why is it with this increased amount of power that we have in all of our devices this technology is so poorly used?

By saying poorly used I mean not many people actually pay attention to what they have and what it can do, I done a bit of research earlier for the most popular iPhone apps and the top 5 were:

1. Angry Birds
2. Fruit Ninja
3. Doodle Jump
4. Cut the Rope
5. Angry Birds Seasons

So why is it that with all this power we have now in our daily lives do we prefer to throw birds at bricks with pigs in the middle? It beggars believe I find although that could be a person trait that's just me but still. Also the amount of money people spend on phones too. I asked some people the other day: "What do you use your phone for?" the response I got really proves my point that people don't realise the technology that they have on them, they simply replied with:"To ring and text people." If you want to ring and text you can buy a phone for about £30 like myself then you won't be wasting money that you don't have for something that you can't use properly.

That though is just mobile devices that are being misused it happens with nearly device that you can work on. For example I know someone who spent about £1,000 on a Mac, I asked him what he actually does with the Mac he told me he browses the internet and occasionally writes essays on there when he has coursework due. But why, why spend that much on a Mac when that's all you're going to do? You could spend a quarter of that amount on a normal PC and still do exactly the same as you do at home.

Electronic companies aren't making this misuse of technology any better though. If anything they're pushing it so they can earn themselves more money. Every year electronic companies are bringing out items that are faster than their last item they bought out. Then the next year do the same again and again. I suppose this isn't such a bad idea but if a computer company at this very moment said: "We're going to stop making new machines for 4 years, we're only going to sell machines that we've already released." In 4 years time the computer would run at an average speed. This is because the software doesn't have a big enough impact on the machines as of yet. The machines are allowing themselves to run a million things at once when no-one actually does it. My friend for example has a computer and he's a gamer, he can play WoW, Skyrim and another game of his choice all at the same time if he wanted to and his computer would still run. His computer isn't even customized just bought it off the shelf.

Electronic companies should actually make every device personal. People should be able to go to the shop and explain why they want the device and what they'll be using the device for. This way technology won't be as misused, earths materials won't be continuously wasted even more than it already is and people will be able to safe a lot of money this way.

Although I've just done a massive post about people who misuse technology. There are still the people who understand the technology and know how to use it to it's fullest potential. I was speaking to someone the other day who worked on the movie 'Avatar' and was told that the computer that he uses to work on the movie cost him £35,000. I was quite taken back by this but also had some hope. Not everyone misuses the technology that they have in front of them, but unfortunately the vast majority of people do.