Have you all seen the trend? Simplicity is a means to say something is basic. Simple. As technology grows, itself becoming more complex, the end result is a more simple interface for the human counterpart.
Don't believe me? Look at some of the things that people have become so incredibly dependent on that we've been put on a par with a little orphan boy during the Industrial Revolution.
Think about the numerous times you've used wikipedia, google, answers.yahoo.com to fulfill a need or desire. Now think about and remember how many times you've retained that knowledge rather then just copying and pasting what you needed at that critical moment. Does anyone remember the Encyclopedia? Even I barely do. Back in the day, research required effort. That effort translated into a love-hate labor, but the process was so meticulous that you generally remembered what you were looking for sheerly for an excuse to justify the hard work.
Look at programs like Firefox that automatically spell check every input we make. Even I can't deny my regular usage of it. For a year or so I relied on firefox so heavily that I had given up spelling experience the correct way and aimed for something ugly such as "expeierence" because I knew my fox de la feugo had my back. How incredibly lazy and unforgivable.
Am I denying the greatness that this technology offers us? Not at all. I am concerned thought that at some point it will become such a necessity that the first thing taught in schools will how to interface with the computer to fix our mistakes.
Technology is wonderful. It's brought society closer, it's advances our possibilities and it's making us completely stupid.
Wednesday, August 20, 2008
Tuesday, August 19, 2008
A little disappointed.
So here I am, a self-proclaimed writer, and I haven't written anything!
I guess that's one of my biggest flaws. Building wonderful story ideas up in my head but then never delivering them. So I'm going to write down my opinions at least on a more regular basis.
One of my biggest peeves as of late is the amount of laziness and apathy I've noticed in society. I work at a movie rental store and I see from time to time a lot trends that annoy me to know end. Most regularly the question "Is this a good movie?" comes at me. It's one thing to read the back of the cover and have questions about the movie's content, but when people see a flashy cover and don't even take the time to figure out if they personally will enjoy something, well it's rather appalling.
People lost the ability to think for themselves a long time ago it seems. Compare a book to the what seems like limitless amount of television programming. Some people would argue that TV s infinite with hundreds of channels available at all hour of the day. The essential issue that people miss is that watching TV requires people to tune into the broadcast companies. Even with the exception of TiVo it is still up to these companies about what programs actually become developed. If you had to pick a favorite color, but someone said you could only pick between red and blue isn't really a choice? Say your favorite color was green? Then what?
That's the beauty and danger of books. They truly are limitless. However at the same time, it becomes tricky to discover your own tastes. Let's face it, mostly people read the bestsellers and in all fairness to those authors, it's well deserved. Harry Potter was worth reading because it was a good story. But that doesn't define eclectic tastes. If someone only reads harry potter and nothing else, have they really discovered their own taste?
It just goes to show you that we mask our own conformity to being spoon fed directions and interests by providing a larger envelope of decisions that are predetermined. Does that mean we are truly free?
I once heard a quote. Ignorance is bliss... when you don't know you're being ignorant.
I guess that's one of my biggest flaws. Building wonderful story ideas up in my head but then never delivering them. So I'm going to write down my opinions at least on a more regular basis.
One of my biggest peeves as of late is the amount of laziness and apathy I've noticed in society. I work at a movie rental store and I see from time to time a lot trends that annoy me to know end. Most regularly the question "Is this a good movie?" comes at me. It's one thing to read the back of the cover and have questions about the movie's content, but when people see a flashy cover and don't even take the time to figure out if they personally will enjoy something, well it's rather appalling.
People lost the ability to think for themselves a long time ago it seems. Compare a book to the what seems like limitless amount of television programming. Some people would argue that TV s infinite with hundreds of channels available at all hour of the day. The essential issue that people miss is that watching TV requires people to tune into the broadcast companies. Even with the exception of TiVo it is still up to these companies about what programs actually become developed. If you had to pick a favorite color, but someone said you could only pick between red and blue isn't really a choice? Say your favorite color was green? Then what?
That's the beauty and danger of books. They truly are limitless. However at the same time, it becomes tricky to discover your own tastes. Let's face it, mostly people read the bestsellers and in all fairness to those authors, it's well deserved. Harry Potter was worth reading because it was a good story. But that doesn't define eclectic tastes. If someone only reads harry potter and nothing else, have they really discovered their own taste?
It just goes to show you that we mask our own conformity to being spoon fed directions and interests by providing a larger envelope of decisions that are predetermined. Does that mean we are truly free?
I once heard a quote. Ignorance is bliss... when you don't know you're being ignorant.
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