{"id":70,"date":"2024-10-21T20:59:02","date_gmt":"2024-10-21T20:59:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dgst101.owenwheeler.net\/blog\/?p=70"},"modified":"2024-10-21T20:59:02","modified_gmt":"2024-10-21T20:59:02","slug":"digital-engagement-7-the-internet-of-things","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dgst101.owenwheeler.net\/blog\/uncategorized\/digital-engagement-7-the-internet-of-things\/","title":{"rendered":"Digital Engagement #7 &#8211; The Internet of Things"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>For today&#8217;s Digital Engagement, I was tasked with journaling my usage of technology for a day. Here is a screenshot of said journal&#8211;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"641\" height=\"510\" src=\"https:\/\/dgst101.owenwheeler.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/image-1.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-72\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dgst101.owenwheeler.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/image-1.png 641w, https:\/\/dgst101.owenwheeler.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/image-1-300x239.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 641px) 100vw, 641px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>To be quite honest, it&#8217;s definitely a very unprofessional journal, and that&#8217;s because I use technology so flagrantly that recording every single time I used it would be tedious. For example, I check my phone intermittently throughout the day, and my laptop is necessary for most tasks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Most of my technology usage boiled down to:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Laptop + Mouse, Headset<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Phone + AirPods<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>EagleOne Card Swipe\/Tap<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>The most interesting aspect to me is the card swipe feature, which makes me require interacting with some form of technology to return to my room. I absolutely get why it exists, and think it&#8217;s a great use of technology, but it is wild to think about how the internet is essential to my basic survival at this point.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Laptop use has become essential to doing work, nearly all of my assignments are computer-based, so I have to use it. My phone is probably my most &#8220;non-essential&#8221; device at this point, but it&#8217;s ironically the one I use the most. I&#8217;ll also admit that circumstances (identity fraud.) have reduced my overall technology usage, because I&#8217;m currently incapable of using my debit card. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I wish I had more interesting findings, but I&#8217;m not sure I do. Technology is all around us, but I really don&#8217;t own many &#8220;smart&#8221; items. I have a Fridge in my room, but it&#8217;s &#8220;dumb&#8221;, and I didn&#8217;t even use it for that 24 hour period. I generally find &#8220;smart&#8221; items to be unnecessary and overly complicated, so I doubt I&#8217;ll be using many of those in the future.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Except for a Roomba. A Roomba sounds like it&#8217;d be fun. Just a little guy going around vacuuming. Those guys are cool.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For today&#8217;s Digital Engagement, I was tasked with journaling my usage of technology for a day. Here is a screenshot of said journal&#8211; To be&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dgst101.owenwheeler.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dgst101.owenwheeler.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dgst101.owenwheeler.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dgst101.owenwheeler.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dgst101.owenwheeler.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dgst101.owenwheeler.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73,"href":"https:\/\/dgst101.owenwheeler.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70\/revisions\/73"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dgst101.owenwheeler.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dgst101.owenwheeler.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dgst101.owenwheeler.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}