Is this really what we're becoming? -video by Prof. Wesh of Kansas State University
Over the space of our human existence, we have come to an understanding; Improvement means easier and faster. This is easily seen in the developments throughout time. If we look closely at this “improvement” though, we might see that it is actually addicting, hindering our progression, and possibly forcing us to digress in many ways.
A person literally has any information within a second’s reach. One can look anything up. This has had a dramatic change on many things, such as changing how we think and act. If you can get any information on any subject instantly, would you ever try to learn anything? No. No, you wouldn’t. I know that I wouldn’t attempt it anyway.
Things you work for stay with you longer and mean more. Norman Vincent Peale said on this subject, “Nothing of great value in this life comes easily. The things of highest value sometimes come hard. The gold that has the greatest value lies deepest in the earth, as do the diamonds.” I have experienced this personally, as have the rest of the human population. I think that it is even more prevalent among younger adults and teenagers. Plagiarism is a very big issue in this category, and has exploded with the advances with the Internet. We hear more and more about “academic integrity” these days, and you can open a newspaper any day and probably find an article related to the subject.
This ease of information has also made us addicted to it. This can very easily be seen in our world. How many nine year olds do you know that have a cell phone? And what would a child so young really need one for? We have been named Generation M, the iGeneration, Generation Now, the Google Generation, and Generation D. These labels have been derived from our dependence on the Internet and the instant gratification addiction as a result of the technological advances. We are constantly text messaging with our cell phones. We have the Internet on our phones and can even video conference with some. Isn’t this getting a bit ridiculous?
This addiction to technology is affecting our social relationships. Due to this constant bombardment of digital communication, we have lost a lot of the intimacy in these relationships. It’s not new news that we have become much more informal with every aspect of communication. This is a sad thing. What used to be thought of as something that needed to be discussed face to face is now acceptable to send an e-mail about. We avoid conversations. Ask any teenager from the age of twelve to 20 and they will tell you that text messaging is preferred to actually talking on the phone. This is because it is so much easier. You don’t have to even talk. The informalities of communication have been replaced with even more informal means.
This video has a very good message. It really shows how our society today has too much of a dependence on technology. It shows that we are really becoming dumber when we get smarter.
It shows how we are struggling to communicate when we are constantly carrying on conversations. We have hurt ourselves in our progression. The processes are more efficient, but are we? What is this constant instant gratification craving going to do to us?
If you are interested about this subject, M.T. Anderson wrote an excellent book called Feed. This book is about a possible future society where everyone is connected to the “feed” by a chip implanted in their head. The feed is much like our World Wide Web.
Over the space of our human existence, we have come to an understanding; Improvement means easier and faster. This is easily seen in the developments throughout time. If we look closely at this “improvement” though, we might see that it is actually addicting, hindering our progression, and possibly forcing us to digress in many ways.
A person literally has any information within a second’s reach. One can look anything up. This has had a dramatic change on many things, such as changing how we think and act. If you can get any information on any subject instantly, would you ever try to learn anything? No. No, you wouldn’t. I know that I wouldn’t attempt it anyway.
Things you work for stay with you longer and mean more. Norman Vincent Peale said on this subject, “Nothing of great value in this life comes easily. The things of highest value sometimes come hard. The gold that has the greatest value lies deepest in the earth, as do the diamonds.” I have experienced this personally, as have the rest of the human population. I think that it is even more prevalent among younger adults and teenagers. Plagiarism is a very big issue in this category, and has exploded with the advances with the Internet. We hear more and more about “academic integrity” these days, and you can open a newspaper any day and probably find an article related to the subject.
This ease of information has also made us addicted to it. This can very easily be seen in our world. How many nine year olds do you know that have a cell phone? And what would a child so young really need one for? We have been named Generation M, the iGeneration, Generation Now, the Google Generation, and Generation D. These labels have been derived from our dependence on the Internet and the instant gratification addiction as a result of the technological advances. We are constantly text messaging with our cell phones. We have the Internet on our phones and can even video conference with some. Isn’t this getting a bit ridiculous?
This addiction to technology is affecting our social relationships. Due to this constant bombardment of digital communication, we have lost a lot of the intimacy in these relationships. It’s not new news that we have become much more informal with every aspect of communication. This is a sad thing. What used to be thought of as something that needed to be discussed face to face is now acceptable to send an e-mail about. We avoid conversations. Ask any teenager from the age of twelve to 20 and they will tell you that text messaging is preferred to actually talking on the phone. This is because it is so much easier. You don’t have to even talk. The informalities of communication have been replaced with even more informal means.
This video has a very good message. It really shows how our society today has too much of a dependence on technology. It shows that we are really becoming dumber when we get smarter.
It shows how we are struggling to communicate when we are constantly carrying on conversations. We have hurt ourselves in our progression. The processes are more efficient, but are we? What is this constant instant gratification craving going to do to us?
If you are interested about this subject, M.T. Anderson wrote an excellent book called Feed. This book is about a possible future society where everyone is connected to the “feed” by a chip implanted in their head. The feed is much like our World Wide Web.
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