... I'm going to ask for more memory, or so goes the old tech joke. In a sense the article is right, if we follow actual knowledge of facts as inteligence then maybe google is unitentionally making us dumber by increase the occurences in which we just "google" something instead of relying on what we know. This is a side effect of psuedo-modernism, we are overwhelmed by the sheer amount of data in the world we withdraw. Look at some of the most sucessful works in recent years, most of them are escapist fantasy. For those into video games take the most recent teamfortress game, there is no reason for anything, no story, no canon(barring the bit about the RED spy being the BLU scout's father). Another example would be the predominance of shoot 'em up movies and while that alone is nothing new, the bloodless fight scene Transporter 2 where in the title character beats down eight pseudo kung-fu-ish masters by standing in one spot and letting eight of them charge him one by one. Yes, hollywood has been doing this for years but it has become quite prominant lately, though in all kung-fu or other martial arts movies the Conservation of Ninjutsu is in full effect, but it's only gotten worse.
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Well I'm going to be straight with you Ted... you use extremely sophisticated diction that I can only somewhat understand haha But from what I did follow... here are my comments :)
ReplyDeleteOk so when you mentioned that Google may in fact be the cause of increased dumbness due to the simplicity of asking questions and immediately receiving answers, I did somewhat agree with you. However, I think that if we all just went off what we know, our facts would be in reality more opinionated because we would not have a source such as Google to back up specific points. I think that Google realistically is good for our society because it causes us to question certain things and then have the drive to find the answer. I love Google and I think that that is evident in the sentences I have expressed :)
Ok that's all for now :)
Haha by the way, your ending sentence reminds me of smokey the bear's quote...
"Only you can prevent forest fires" haha :D
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I too am noticing an increased amount of escapist material. I think recently, mankind has had a little more time in their hands and not much to do with it. Now that we don't have to spend so much energy on survival, we attempt to escape the little responsibility we have left. The influx of vampire and undead themed movies lately seem to allude to a more morbid and death- escapist trend. Our society will do all in its power to keep from being bored, thus allowing the internet and google to take us away.
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