Okay, well good morning everyone! Hope you slept well and your weekend was a good one! Well I’m not really sure exactly which prompt I will be answering, it might be in-between but I guess we’ll see as I start writing, so here we go!
I just want to start out my saying that the video we watched on Friday was crazy! All this statistics they presented us, made me think about how, as a society, we really are moving into a new era. One statistic presented was “Today, the number of text messages sent and received everyday exceeds the total population of the planet.” That number is just absurd, although I am one of those “crazy teens” who spend a majority of their time texting, it never hit me the number of texts sent and received daily was that large. Also, I never knew how effective the internet was and really how much people used it to do. Like the statistic that “1 out of 8 couples married last year met online.” It’s almost like if someone really cannot find something or in this case, someone then they look online because you can find “everything” on the Internet, I just never knew how undefined the “everything” was. It is sort of scary to see how much people rely on the Internet for.
According to Dr. Alan Kirby’s the new era we are about to enter into is called Pseudo-modernism. Kirby states that “In postmodernism, one read, watched, listened, as before. In pseudo-modernism one phones, clicks, presses, surfs, chooses, moves, downloads.” His insight is just further confirming that we are on our way to becoming completely dependent on technology and such other things. America has transformed drastically and so has the lifestyle. Like if you ask any teenager to just give up their cell phone, computer, Internet and television I think they would have a heart-attack, myself included. We as a society have become so dependent on technology and I just hope we don’t turn into a Brave New World society at this rate.
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Hey Tori! Great Blog! I totally agree with you how out of hand society (myself included) has gotten with technology. One thing in particular that stuck out to me that you said was, “It is sort of scary to see how much people rely on the Internet for.” This statement speaks volumes because it makes me wonder if people can even think for themselves. Even though technology gives us more knowledge, it dumbs people down, since they give up reading and writing to research things on the internet. It is if the technology has become the answer to everyone’s prayers rather than a god or faith.
ReplyDeleteI also hope that we don’t become like Brave New World.It does seem very possible.As we all know, that would be way scary. Anyways, I enjoyed reading your blog it was fantastic! See ya tommorrow.
It is scary to see how much people really do rely on the internet lately. Marriages are based on the internet, shopping, talking to friends, watching movies before they even come out in theaters. Yeah, youtube has beat the system somehow. Insane. I think giving up my phone would be like blinding me with mace and telling me to run through a forest full or california redwoods.. It'd be the worst experience ever. I love your ideas though, its crazy to see the change in verbs that are our daily actions. Like.. surf, click, browse, whatever. They've drastically changed from the way we used to operate our daily lives. But yeah, I'm done. Bye tor :)
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