Roisin Markham

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Technology is answering faster but are we asking the right questions?What are the questions you are asking technology?

Pepper tell me about…

Alexa run my playlist

Google – the most searched for question is

And once you start googling the most frequently asked questions it’s a slippery slope down hill

How do I find…

Where do I eat…

Are you a omnichannel diva? Or only use incognito or Linux?
What are you asking technology to do these days? The experience of well designed apps and slick UX entices us away from out laptops we search for better working tools and don’t find them. We revert to 20 year old packages sized through worlds of marketing. I’m typing this in notes on my mobile? Is it so I’m not distracted – no it’s my mobile! 

I’m using notes because that’s now where I dump everything. It is simple. I type is that technically writing?

So what? Technology is giving us the answers to our questions, to our better self serve options 24/7 that are more efficient then a human…
But what are we demanding of our technology? Has it solved world hunger. No.

could it?

Yes

So why are we not?

Why are we supporting start ups on fintech and not mental health? Why are we incubating for first world problems?

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  1. I am. Thank you. – Roisin Markham Avatar
    I am. Thank you. – Roisin Markham

    […] I believe we need to demand more from the technology. […]

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    I could be really cynical here and say that technology is not solving our worldwide problems for a couple of reasons: 1. Money and 2. Fear.
    Those holding the world’s purse strings are holding the rest of us to ransom, after all there is money to be made in suffering and war. The fear aspect is 2 pronged; those in power are fearful of losing that power once the world’s greatest problems are solved. And the rest of us mere mortals are fearful of technology overtaking our beautiful, albeit lazy human minds.
    Technology is wonderful, there’s no denying that. Advancing our capabilities is part of human growth. Unfortunately we’ve also managed to advance our paranoia and fear of the unknown as we have evolved. We’re not so clever as we think. Technology is moving far quicker than most of us can comprehend.
    BUT, on a more mundane everyday level, I love that I can video chat to friends and family far away. I love that I can respond to this blog and share the conversation with anyone who is interested. I can send and receive photos, messages, calls instantly – all good. But I still like the feel of a paper book, I love to use a dictionary and I still use old fashioned impossible to re-fold maps.

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