Small post 2 - Technology affecting society

In class, we have talked a lot about how technology affects society. Since technology is ever-changing, there will always be new terms that are developed to describe what new technologies do. Thus, society changes to embrace new technological terms as technology evolves. As I read the articles assigned for Tuesday, societal change to match technology really stuck out to me in the word choice of the authors. For example, the articles we had to read on family history technology ranged from 1991 to 2010. With each new article, new tech vocabulary words were used that hadn't been used in the previous articles: words like "wiki", "email", and "hyperlink". In one of the articles, it even included a glossary of terms, which explained all the computer mumbo-jumbo that had been used throughout the article. This process still continues today. As long as technology changes, society and terminology will have to change in order to keep up with it.