One of the main things that stuck out was the article in general. The entire last paragraph of the article remnded me so much of Brave New World-when john asks the Deltas if they "like being babies?..mewling and puking." Will or has this rapid growth of information and technology actually suspended the human race from achieving anything or has it advanced it?
Another thing that popped out to me from the article and video was how much information is being created. That we need to absorb more and more knowledge/information to get ahead/survive this world is distrubing. The concept of being able to make more room in one's brain to store more information is just crazy; we are not computers! We have become reliable on computers for such easy tasks.
Also, another main thing that I may have mentioned, but already forgot to talk about is how computers have taken over out lives. Well I have talked about it, but here is more. How many of us have a myspace, facebook, twitter(which is the wierdest of them all), or any other networking? How many times do you go on the internet? WE ARE ON THE INTERNET TO TALK ABOUT HOW THE "ADVANCEMENT" OF TECHNOLOGY HAD TAKEN OVER OUR LIVES. I think that the concept of a computer being smarter than the average human brain (what exactly is average?) is creepy. HAS ANYBODY EVER SEEN THE TERMINATOR MOVIES?! I think that technology has helped us, we have achieved so much because of it, but where is it leading to? Will we rely on technology for everything in a few years? Look how much stuff has advanced in the last 10 years, 5 years, heck 1 year! What will happen if we continue to rely on something that may eventually be smater than us?
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