Monday, December 12, 2011
Your so Fresh Emily Dickinson
I find Dickinsons writing as being fresh through her word choice. She uses words that show a great sense of imagery such as "bright" "light" "dazzle". I think many do not write in the way that she did and it needed a lot of thinking to piece together her own thoughts. I find her writing exciting, which conclusively makes her writing fresh.
Is Technology Corrupting our Future Youth?
Without computers, phones, internet, and iPods. One could only wonder how we lived before our technological revolution. Just thirty to forty years ago, only black and white television graced American living rooms. On a sunny day, the neighborhood would be outside: kids playing tag, games of kickball and parents grilling outside and watching their kids, grateful for the beautiful day. In the twenty-first century, rain or shine kids are playing video games inside and not socially interacting with their peers. They’re not worried about the activities that they could be enjoying outside, their worried about the big game of football going on on their plasma flat screen 52’ T.V. Are we hurting future generations because of this technological exposure?
In “he Information: How the Internet Gets Inside Us” Adam Gopnik, relays how the Internet is diminishing our own personal thoughts and ways of communication. Gopnik categorizes our technological shift into many different kinds of thinkers and their personal feelings on technology. The two main titles for these thinkers are the Never-Betters who fully support the technological advancement and think that our society has never been better than it is today. In opposition there is the Better-Nevers who have the same mindset as Gopnik. He supports unquestionably that technology helps our everyday lives, but that such progress is rapidly changing and he even suggests that the advancement of technology will soon be taking over our minds and our future generations will not be self-sufficent. Therefore, they will rely predominantly on technology then on their own intellect.
The excerpt from “The New and Improved” Brain by Gary Small and Gigi Vorgan has almost a similar notion as Gopnik, but they focus on our minds biological adaptation to the technology shifts our generation is experiencing, rather than how we are socially adapting to the progression in technology. This article is directed towards our forthcoming generations, which answers our question, if we are hurting the future because of technology. Our impending generations will have an advantage in the work force in comparison to past or present age groups, because of their rapid knowledge and skills obtained from our digital progression. “Digital Natives” as Vorgan and Small call those who are again, technologically savvy, will have the ability to better sift through large amounts of information rapidly. Along with our digital cultures advancement through video games, our ability to multi task without error is steadily increasing. Alternatively, we will become more socially isolated with our decrease in personal interaction due to our heightened attention toward video games and the Internet. Small and Vorgan conclude that we are not only becoming more technologically savvy, but it is also improving our intelligence through our digital advancement, although forms of social communication and interaction will slowly diminish if technology keeps progressing.
“Is Google Making Us Stupid?” by Nicholas Carr, is also an explanation on how the Internet is slowly deteriorating our own self-thoughts. Carr mainly focuses on how the Internet is weakening our ability to focus and stick to one single thought and or task while surfing through articles on the Web. While reading articles online, we are now skimming through them instead of reading all the materials that are available to us. This is affecting our thinking process and shortening our attention spans. In Carr’s article another writer claims he cannot sit down and read a book the way he used to because of the creation of the Internet. Many people are expressing the same issue in the article, that their attention is also now wondering when they are reading and they are just trying to obtain the information needed. Carr concludes that we rely on the Internet for just about anything and everything in our day-to-day lives, but he believes that the internet is not assisting us, it is just a distraction.
A short film by Michael Wesch tells us how the Internet figures out our interests and our likes, to slowly take over our minds when we are on the Internet. On the side of our screens are always advertisements or items we may be fascinated with. Although, it is not just the Internet that memorizes our interests, but also almost all applications know what our likes, from our fonts to colors to size to webpage’s, and even finishes our sentences. “The machine” as Wesch refers the computer, knows us more than we know ourselves in a sense. That the machine is slowly taking over our intellect and we do not even know that it is occuring. But who is the machine? The machine is us evidently. We control what is put into it, we control how we use it, we control when we use it. If we do not use the machine, the machine does not use us. Wesch’s ending statement is that we humans are the machines.
All authors had the same ideology on our centuries technological revolution. All our progress in technology is assisting our everyday living patterns. It has brought a new insight into our future and has broadened our intelligence and the way we think. On the contrary, many thinkers have a negative connotation towards our societies progress. They believe that technology is diminishing our own thinking patterns and our own self-thought. This may be true, but only time and the more our technology evolves will tell.
Our society today would not be able to survive without technology. That is evidently what our future generations are being born into. Those in the future will not know what it is to cuddle up with a nice book at night; they will be cuddling up to their kindle. The future generations will not know what it is like to run over to the neighbor’s house to see if they are home to play a game of kickball. The future generation will not know how to have a normal face-to-face conversation without technology being a distraction. The Internet and the advancement in technology helps define us, but we are losing our self-creativity and fulfillment. We make the creations on this earth, the creations do not make us, that is what we are neglecting the most. The freest mind is the most powerful one.
Your not beautiful thats why your so beautiful
Shakespeare uses the same tone as Collins "Litany" because they both degrade their loved ones. They both say how their is more beauty out there in the world than their beloved women, but you would think to say that they don't think anything else is more beautiful. Although, in the end they describe that their really is nothing as beautiful than the lack their of the beauty that is so superficial to the common eye.
WTF?! Ipad
Meddy finds this video relevant to our class because of our assignments that have fallen within the structuring of our class. We have worked many weeks as a class on how technology is a NEED in todays society, and is corrupting our future generations. This video is extremely relevant to our thesis because this child is not finding an ordinary magazine as entertaining as the Ipad. Just goes to show that technology is slowly taking over and is working its way to the younger generations which will be much more reliant on technology.
Is it really nothing?
Shakespeares commentary on Much Ado About Nothing does not really have to do with nothing. Through Act 1 and parts of Act 2, it is clearly evident that Shakespeare is trying to show the love of Beatrice and Benedick to the audience. These characters will not only bring us to the comical climax along with other primary characters, but will also bring a spin to the premise of the play.
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