What is the future of sport with the combination of technology?
Haile Gabreselasie alongside Kenenisa Bekele are regarded as the greatest long distance runners of all time. Despite this both have lived and felt the effects of poverty living in a third world country-Eithiopia. However both have rocketed to success. Given this one could say that technology doesn’t determine how successful an athlete is, however as soon as talent is recognized technology is introduced. Therefore it is impossible to say that the records in the future will purely be based on talent alone as society now means that technology is always introduced to talent.
Is technology the reason for success?
Third World countries do have sporting success. For instance Chad has a large number of professional football players, however none play in Chad itself, the majority play in France. Furthermore Mali, a country in north Africa, their women’s basketball team qualified for the Beijing Olympics, however they came last in the Olympics itself. I feel that this shows a lot. Although these countries have talent, they cannot compete against the richer countries who involve technology. Although their raw talent is very good, in this world that is just not good enough, and as soon as it is recognized money becomes involved = technology.
Technology will never end. Everybody always wants to be bigger and better. Human beings love to be shocked, to be challenged and to win.
A fundamental rule in technology says that whatever can be done will be done.
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