Bringing It All Together

I have thoroughly enjoyed writing this blog as it has even taught me many things which I would never have even considered looking into. It was fun relating our class discussions and materials to one specific technology, GPS. It seems as tho we have been taking many modern day technologies for granted and don't really understand where they come from and how much work is put into their development. The development of the entire Global Positioning System has been a roller coaster ride from the start. The amount of collaboration on the effort to develop the satellite system as well as each individual hand-held device has been amazing, starting with the US military all the way down to small companies. This got me thinking about how this holds true for almost every technology in our society, such as computers, mp3 players, televisions, etc. Our world is rapidly accelerating into a new tech-age and it will be a wild ride.