With any change you will always have skeptics who are convinced that these new technologies, or advances in any from, are the demise of the “old” traditional way. Yes, most of the time these individuals are radical, and try to make some crazy analogize as to why this new improvement are horrible. But, to their credit sometimes they have good points of opinion under all the crazy antics. The points and opinion of these people typically do not outweigh the tremendous improvement in technology.
I am baffled as to why they don’t come of as more sane? One would think that they would get more attention and followers with a more normal plan of action. On the other had you have outstanding innovation, such as Google. The key is to find the equilibrium. It seems slightly extravagant to say that Google is making us “drummer”. A better way to approach this is, how is Google changing cognition, and is this good, or bad. 9 times out of 10 it is both.
As mentioned earlier both sides have valid contributory points, thus you need to be aware of all aspects. As argued in the Carr article, online reading is making our attention span shorter, and making us more efficient opposed to deep thinkers. Well what if we can do both? Isn’t that the objective to new technology to make life more efficient, to improve society, and so forth. The human species are extremely adaptive, and smart, so why would we not be able to take the good aspects from the former technology, and the benefits from the new technology?
Technology is a valuable tool if used correctly. Everything should be used with the idea of validating it's information before you cite it. I don't think the technology itself is dumbing us down. The dumbing down is a by product of the user not the program. That's when personal responsibility comes into play. But who should monitor it? Or should it be regulated? Who knows. But, as long as there is information/technology out there like everything else it's bound to be used properly and improperly. It's not the system or google or Wikipedia that's the problem it's the user.
ReplyDeleteI totally agree new technology is making our lives more efficient. Who cares if it's making us not think like the people that didn't have it back in the day. It's not making us lazy it's just making our lives easier so we don't have to do it like they did back in the day.
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