**The Dangers of Taking Tech for Granted**

We've come a long way since today when it comes to navigation systems. Google Maps is now "info-rich" with constantly updated traffic, transit, and foot directions, allowing us to adjust our trip on the fly. Additionally, Waze tells us about cops five miles away, helping us avoid speeding tickets. It's easy to appreciate these advancements, but we should also acknowledge just how good we have it compared to what it was like in the past.

**The Power of Computational Photography**

Computational photography in smartphones is another area where we've made tremendous progress. This technology allows us to take amazing photos without having to worry about fine-tuning settings. In fact, photo taken on today's phones often rival those taken on a proper camera. However, there's one thing that can make us hate the algorithm: watching one 911 video for 30 minutes, only to have it recommended back to us again and again.

**The Algorithm is More Than Just a Recommendation Engine**

Despite its sometimes annoying nature, I think the algorithm is pretty cool. It works as intended, don't watch that video for 30 minutes, and it thinks you like it. But what's more interesting is how both users and services thrive on curated content. This means we spend longer periods of time watching stuff, which in turn allows the system to serve us more ads and generate more money – a win-win situation.

**The Algorithm Knows Us Better Than We Know Ourselves**

Even though services like Tick Tock and YouTube pull way more data from us than they actually need, they've managed to get it right. They know us better than our best friends, parents, or even ourselves! This is how YouTube has found me new music artists and YouTubers to follow, and Tick Tock is even scarier. However, I let it go in the scheme of getting awesome content fed to me.

**The Algorithm's Role in Success**

In addition to its annoying nature, the algorithm also plays a crucial role in my success on YouTube with this channel. It serves me well in many ways, and I try not to take it for granted. The algorithm is how we got connected – like what you see here? Hit that subscribe button and ring the notification bell to get notified when I upload more videos.

**The Dangers of Taking Tech for Granted (Part 2)**

Time and visibility are two reasons why tech enthusiasts can take things for granted, but a third and less straightforward reason is engaging in debate – especially over the internet. It's easy to get caught up in negativity with lots of content to consume across various websites with different focuses and communities driving them.

**The Importance of Constructive Debate**

Firstly, having an opinion isn't a bad thing; they can help inform our knowledge on something, especially for constructive pieces like reviews. Those can help consumers figure out whether they should buy something or not. Also, contrast and conflict naturally make for better content – without it, sports and movies would be stale.

**The Power of Tech**

How often do you think about smartphones? They're powerful supercomputers in your pocket that can be your home office, streaming setup, and living room all in one! You might like them, hate them, or die on a hill for one thing – but regardless, I think it's essential to take a step back and remember just how good these things are.

**The End**

Next time you find that one dude who replies to all your iPhone posts like Steve Jobs personally in their cereal, take solace in the fact that you're a better person and don't take tech for granted. Thank you very much for watching this episode of Denki Channel – let me know what tech do you appreciate the most? Also, I'd be grateful if you could hit that subscribe button – we're approaching 100,000 here's hoping I can hit it by the end of the year. Otherwise, I'll catch y'all in the next one!

WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: ena lot of us here can spend hours reading up on Tech articles and watching videos every single week but have you ever stopped to consider that Tech is cool let's talk about it I've had a thought churning in my head over the past couple of days and that's Tech enthusiasts oftentimes take tech for granted whether they mean to or not and for different reasons sometimes consumer Tech has come so far cool things that came out years and years ago are now the norm now I'm not out here saying you should appreciate all the ones and zeros that go into your favorite apps and video games but man in the past 10 to 15 years things have gotten wild especially thanks to the internet for example let's take navigation a lot of us rely on apps like Waze and Google Maps on a daily basis to get to our destinations on time but it's easy to forget that things haven't always been this robust and feature filled we can certainly go back to the era of paper maps that you would buy from like AAA or a rest stop but one of my first memories of the internet was using mapquestion you would type in your point a your point B hit enter and it would give you a list of turn-by-turn directions and a map app that you would print out on a piece of paper to take on your road trip actually used it a lot to help my family get the car down from New York all the way to Disney World the 18-hour drive might have sucked but at least we didn't get lost if not for MapQuest there were personal GPS devices whether it was built into your car's head unit or an actual handheld device both of which were totally fine for the time albeit expensive at which point you just relied on MapQuest more but then we saw the Advent of the smartphone which is closer to the experience that most of us have today it took a few years off the line to get GPS turn-by-turn directions reliable enough to replace a dedicated navigation unit though the transition period was surprisingly interesting one of the first things I always wanted to try as a budding Tech Enthusiast was the TomTom GPS navigation system for the iPhone you paid 99 dollars for for the app and an extra 100 for a kit that would enhance the GPS speaker and microphone of your iPhone to make it a proper TomTom replacement man we've come a long way since nowadays Google Maps is info rich with constantly updated traffic Transit and foot directions to adjust your trip on the fly as well as Waze telling me that there's a cop five miles away to help me avoid a speeding ticket we can certainly appreciate these things as they are now but I think it's easy to take for granted just how good we have it especially compared to what it was like in the past time is one aspect that can cause people to take things for granted and visibility is a whole other it's easy to forget how good things can be especially if they mainly work behind the scenes take computational Photography in smartphones this allows us to take amazing photos in the moment without having to worry about fine-tuning settings in fact it's gotten so good that photo's taken on today's phones in many ways rival those taken on a proper camera however the best example I have lined up is the algorithm yep spicy the algorithm is a very easy thing to hate and I see why all it takes is watching One 911 video for like 30 minutes and all of a sudden that's all of your recommendations but Playing devil's advocate I think the algorithm is pretty cool one it's working as intended don't watch that video for 30 minutes it thinks you like it but two both users and the service alike thrive on curated content it gets us watching stuff for longer periods of time which means the system can serve us more ads and generate more money it's a win-win Plus in a very weird way even if services like Tick Tock and YouTube are pulling way more data on me than they actually need a guys who works super well knows me better than my best friends do my parents it knows me better than my own self that's how YouTube has found me new music artists and YouTubers to follow and Tick Tock is even scarier but I let it go in the scheme of getting awesome content fed to me between that and the mild success I've seen here on YouTube with this Channel all thanks to the algorithm it's one of those things I try not to take for granted because because it serves me so well in many ways plus it's how we got connected like what you see on here you should also hit the Subscribe button and ring the notification Bell to get notified on when I upload more videos okay so I mentioned time and visibility as two reasons for how Tech enthusiasts can take things for granted but a third and less straightforward reason is when they engage in debate especially over the internet and that's because it's a place where it's easy to get caught up in negativity with lots of content to consume across various websites with focuses and communities driving them best case scenario it can lead to fun conversation however Because the Internet is the way that it is everybody has an opinion now first let me be clear having an opinion isn't a bad thing they can help inform our knowledge on something especially for constructive pieces like reviews those can help consumers figure out whether they should buy something or not also contrast and conflict naturally make for better content without it Sports and movies would be staless but In the Heat of excitement over discussion it can be easy to lose sight of the fact that at the end of the day Tech is really cool consider this how often do you think about smartphones whether they're running iOS or Android the fact that they are powerful supercomputers in your pocket that can be your home office streaming setup and living room all in one you might like it hate it or die on a hill for one but regardless I think it's important to take a step back and remember just how good these things are kind of sounds naive but also not entirely out there yeah so next time you find that one dude that replies to all of your iPhone posts like Steve Jobs personally in his cereal damn take solace and the fact that you're a better person and doesn't take tech for granted no thanks very much for watching this episode of denki Channel and let me know what tech do you appreciate the most also I would very much appreciate it if you could hit that subscribe button we are approaching 100 000 here's hoping I can hit it by the end of the year and otherwise I'll catch y'all in the next onea lot of us here can spend hours reading up on Tech articles and watching videos every single week but have you ever stopped to consider that Tech is cool let's talk about it I've had a thought churning in my head over the past couple of days and that's Tech enthusiasts oftentimes take tech for granted whether they mean to or not and for different reasons sometimes consumer Tech has come so far cool things that came out years and years ago are now the norm now I'm not out here saying you should appreciate all the ones and zeros that go into your favorite apps and video games but man in the past 10 to 15 years things have gotten wild especially thanks to the internet for example let's take navigation a lot of us rely on apps like Waze and Google Maps on a daily basis to get to our destinations on time but it's easy to forget that things haven't always been this robust and feature filled we can certainly go back to the era of paper maps that you would buy from like AAA or a rest stop but one of my first memories of the internet was using mapquestion you would type in your point a your point B hit enter and it would give you a list of turn-by-turn directions and a map app that you would print out on a piece of paper to take on your road trip actually used it a lot to help my family get the car down from New York all the way to Disney World the 18-hour drive might have sucked but at least we didn't get lost if not for MapQuest there were personal GPS devices whether it was built into your car's head unit or an actual handheld device both of which were totally fine for the time albeit expensive at which point you just relied on MapQuest more but then we saw the Advent of the smartphone which is closer to the experience that most of us have today it took a few years off the line to get GPS turn-by-turn directions reliable enough to replace a dedicated navigation unit though the transition period was surprisingly interesting one of the first things I always wanted to try as a budding Tech Enthusiast was the TomTom GPS navigation system for the iPhone you paid 99 dollars for for the app and an extra 100 for a kit that would enhance the GPS speaker and microphone of your iPhone to make it a proper TomTom replacement man we've come a long way since nowadays Google Maps is info rich with constantly updated traffic Transit and foot directions to adjust your trip on the fly as well as Waze telling me that there's a cop five miles away to help me avoid a speeding ticket we can certainly appreciate these things as they are now but I think it's easy to take for granted just how good we have it especially compared to what it was like in the past time is one aspect that can cause people to take things for granted and visibility is a whole other it's easy to forget how good things can be especially if they mainly work behind the scenes take computational Photography in smartphones this allows us to take amazing photos in the moment without having to worry about fine-tuning settings in fact it's gotten so good that photo's taken on today's phones in many ways rival those taken on a proper camera however the best example I have lined up is the algorithm yep spicy the algorithm is a very easy thing to hate and I see why all it takes is watching One 911 video for like 30 minutes and all of a sudden that's all of your recommendations but Playing devil's advocate I think the algorithm is pretty cool one it's working as intended don't watch that video for 30 minutes it thinks you like it but two both users and the service alike thrive on curated content it gets us watching stuff for longer periods of time which means the system can serve us more ads and generate more money it's a win-win Plus in a very weird way even if services like Tick Tock and YouTube are pulling way more data on me than they actually need a guys who works super well knows me better than my best friends do my parents it knows me better than my own self that's how YouTube has found me new music artists and YouTubers to follow and Tick Tock is even scarier but I let it go in the scheme of getting awesome content fed to me between that and the mild success I've seen here on YouTube with this Channel all thanks to the algorithm it's one of those things I try not to take for granted because because it serves me so well in many ways plus it's how we got connected like what you see on here you should also hit the Subscribe button and ring the notification Bell to get notified on when I upload more videos okay so I mentioned time and visibility as two reasons for how Tech enthusiasts can take things for granted but a third and less straightforward reason is when they engage in debate especially over the internet and that's because it's a place where it's easy to get caught up in negativity with lots of content to consume across various websites with focuses and communities driving them best case scenario it can lead to fun conversation however Because the Internet is the way that it is everybody has an opinion now first let me be clear having an opinion isn't a bad thing they can help inform our knowledge on something especially for constructive pieces like reviews those can help consumers figure out whether they should buy something or not also contrast and conflict naturally make for better content without it Sports and movies would be staless but In the Heat of excitement over discussion it can be easy to lose sight of the fact that at the end of the day Tech is really cool consider this how often do you think about smartphones whether they're running iOS or Android the fact that they are powerful supercomputers in your pocket that can be your home office streaming setup and living room all in one you might like it hate it or die on a hill for one but regardless I think it's important to take a step back and remember just how good these things are kind of sounds naive but also not entirely out there yeah so next time you find that one dude that replies to all of your iPhone posts like Steve Jobs personally in his cereal damn take solace and the fact that you're a better person and doesn't take tech for granted no thanks very much for watching this episode of denki Channel and let me know what tech do you appreciate the most also I would very much appreciate it if you could hit that subscribe button we are approaching 100 000 here's hoping I can hit it by the end of the year and otherwise I'll catch y'all in the next one