Why "must the system be first?" Shouldn't the people how made the system, well people in general be first? I do agree with Carr, the human brain has become "an outdated computer that needs a faster processor." So much information is thrown at people throughout a normal day that it is hard to even remember what someone told you that morning. Have you heard that people only remember the first thing they are told in a day? (Or something like that) That is why there are commercials, we need a break to have our brains register what we just watched. Vonnegut made a good decision by making the chapters of his book Cat's Cradle so short-he wanted to keep the masses interested and not have them give up on his book because they couldn't concentrate. Google has not helped us. It gives people information right away, I know this may sound like a nice thing, but people do not go out and search for information on their own now. And how do we know if the information given by Google is correct? It is easy to change info by just hacking someone's site.
Taylor wanted "the gradual substitution of science for the rule of thumb thoughout the mechnic arts." His concpet would bring about "a utpoia of perfect efficiency." So science can make everything perfect? Taylor must have been crazy. How can something that can cause so much harm towards the human race, humanity, the planet, the universe help create a perfect utopia. A perfect Utopia should not/would not include science in general.
So I went off a little. So I agree with Carr, the human race has a short attention span that is/was caused by the advancements of technology and Google has helped this along by having this technology andinformation right at someone's fingertips.
2 comments:
Hey! Good post, Megan! I totally agree with you on how the our minds not up to the technology of everything else. Like PCs are slow and Mac is cool!! It doesn't mean that we need to up-date people on the language of technology and have people adapt to it. I personally think that we need to tone down all this madness. Look how fast we have gone with all this technology. In that video that we saw a couple weeks ago, the radio took several decades to get to 50,000 people. And facebook took like 2 years. its amazing how fast we are absorbed into technology that we need short breaks. And yeah, I never really thought about that statement you said about people only remembering certain things. I guess we are worse then old people.... sad. Anyways, great ideas in your post.
Hey Megan,
Great blog! One thing that you brought to my attention that i had not thought was that, Have you heard that people only remember the first thing they are told in a day? (Or something like that) That is why there are commercials, we need a break to have our brains register what we just watched.” To me this kind is of ironic that T.V. is supposed to be a break from working; yet, we need a break from T.V. I agree with you that our brains can’t keep up with the technology overload. Like you said, even though Google is easier, it is not better. By looking up things on Google, we never really become smarter. Not only could someone hack into a site and write false information, the author may not be qualified to really know what they are saying. Your blog was really interesting and i enjoyed reading it!
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