I was thinking that changing from Takers to Leavers is not easy or even impossible. Takers would have hard time to let their things to go and convert to Leavers. Technology would be one of things Takers would want to hold. Technology made our life easier, faster, and
more convenient. However, I also believe that technology easily makes people to
think less and sometimes degrades our intellectual ability. I would like to relate to an
article, "Is Google Making Us Stupid?" by
Nicolas Carr. First thing I noticed was the title and I was questioning why
Google makes us stupid, because I used Google to search various information in
all fields. Carr's main idea was that information flows over media and that
even though we could access to information easily, media affects negatively on
people by consistently distracting us and making us to lose focus on long
pieces of reading. I could agree with him, and this reminded me of when I was
taking AP Literature class in my high school. I skipped through many books and
accessed online and found all various information about books, such as
character analysis, settings, and others. Although the sites helped me to do
well on my assignments and tests, I did not directly get connections from
authors through the books and missed several important concepts. I also no longer used a paper dictionary, instead
I searched on websites, which was very fast and easy. However, When I used an online dictionary, I found that the definition did not really stuck on my
head as much as when I looked up a paper dictionary and highlighted the words. I
agreed with Carr's statement, "we turning into 'pancake people'-spread
wide and thin as we connect with that vast network of information accessed by
the mere touch of button."
I also wanted to mention Quinn's idea, "The Leaver
life-style isn't about hunting and gathering, it's about letting the rest of
the community live... The Leaver life is not an antiquated thing that is 'back
there' somewhere. Your task is not to reach back but to reach forward" (p.250).
Does this mean that we do not have to give up technology?
Does this mean that we do not have to give up technology?
Ishmael is done but the ideas
are continued!
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답글삭제I read the article you mentioned. As you are saying and the article is mentioning, technology really is making us not only stupid, but also lose humanity within us. Do you remember that we used to memorize our friends’ phone number? Do you remember that we used to memorize our dear friends’ birthdays? Sadly, we don’t memorize these things anymore. Rather, we would look them up in our smart phones or on Facebook. Some could say that it is good for us not to memorize everything. Also, they would say that we can concentrate on what we really should memorize. Well, if you can’t come up with your best friend’s phone number without getting help from a mere machine, what would be good for memorizing other stuffs? Like you quoted, “the Leaver life-style isn’t about hunting and gathering, it’s about letting the rest of the community live.” Without humanity within us, our community won’t last no matter how high technology we have. That’s why we need to learn from the Leavers
삭제Thanks for your good comment:) We depend on technology and hope that technology does everything for us, which includes managing relationships between people. I agree with you that we are losing humanity. Although technology seems like connecting people in the world, we do not have less close connections with people around us than before. I remembered when I was young I invited my friends to my house. We were talking and running around...crazily.We knew each other very well. However, today, I saw my brother and his friends. They came to our house and started to turn computer and TV. Thye played games and watched some fun shows together. Because they were so concentrated in what they were doing, there were not much communcation between his friends and him. I thought that they were controled by the games and shows, which seemed like their closer friends than their human friends.
답글삭제If there are no verbal communication, but just communication through cell phones and websites, would people change or not? What would be negative outcomes?