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Sunday, August 18, 2013

Technology equals ignorance?

People who were able to sit through hours of long debates many years ago don't even compare to the people of today. Technology is to be the blame of our shortened attention span in Postman's perspective. We now prefer something visually entertaining over something intellectually stimulating due to technological advancements such as media and television. Television can be very useful and informative however it is more about the more viewers you gain, the more money you get. It is no longer about knowledge and educational but about what would be appealing to the eye of viewers at home. Anything longer than two hours must be held with an intermission in between yet years before people would contently be able to sit for hours, never "bored" and were kept interested as they were the first hour viewing the play/debate/etc. Do you believe as technology advances, the knowledge of society overall decreases? Do you believe technology will be the downfall of our society and knowledge itself?
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  1. UnknownAugust 19, 2013 at 11:00 PM

    I am almost certain that technology will be the downfall of our society and knowledge. Almost no one wanted to learn anymore because they would rather be immersed in technology. We would rather have a machine do something than get up and try it ourselves

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  2. UnknownAugust 20, 2013 at 10:19 PM

    I don't believe technology itself decreases societal knowledge, but it's the technologies that society deems the most usable and necessary that begin to deteriorate society's overall knowledge. However, social media has drowned us in a sea of irrelevancy, and this can be a cause for concern. Americans are dependent on cellphones, smartphones, the internet, social media websites, and television to keep them "informed" on what we consider "news". The danger is that pop culture has become our breaking news. Pop culture does not demand a debate on morals and ethics. It does not inspire intellect. It does not ask us to think. It asks us to see. To visualize. To consume. And as this has become the basis of American culture in the past decade, I do fear that knowledge will become diluted until almost extinct.

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