When this project was assigned I could not deduce what to say so that I could at least finish the assignment and because of this I asked Mrs. Hake what to do. She responded by saying that, "the world is at your fingertips Tim, you can write about yourself or something that interests you". "The world is at your fingertips". What she said didn't strike me as odd due to its truth but it did cause me to stop and think. It made me think about technology and how far we as humans have come in sharing data, info, and even just our lives and personal experiences. To me personally it is truly miraculous, I mean think about it just for a second, we can access almost any piece of known data by flipping a power switch and pressing a few keys. Think of the possibilities, the opportunities we have because of the internet, technology and shared data. There is so much we could speak for or against out there by posting something, but yet it goes to waste on statuses. I won't say I haven't fallen prey to falling in with the crowd and using this amazing resource merely for recreational or even school purposes. I have, but so has almost anybody because it is part of our society today. Until she spoke those words I had never even tried to think about the full power of any one person especially on something that can reach and communicate with almost any human on the planet. We could cause so much happiness and good in this world thanks to the power within our fingertips yet we sit back and laze around or worse yet we use it for cruel purposes. Just imagine the mob mentality worldwide, but for good and instantly able to connect with each other. The possibilities could be endless of what it could do. So I must ask you, what can you do with "the world at your finger tips"?
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That is an interesting sentiment concerning the internet and our ability to communicate with people all the way on the other side of the world without ever even needing to stand up. However, with this wonderful tool, comes some abuse. We have so much access to almost any information we could ever want and the ability to do pretty much anything on the Internet, but it is somewhat impersonal. Instead of sending IM's to a person halfway across the world, I would rather actually go and meet them, experience their culture, have an adventure. To some extent, the Internet gives us a reason to be lazy and not do anything. Why go to the store when we can have anything we want delivered to us? Why go to school when you can have online classes? Why go out and talk to people when you have Facebook? It just gives us a reason to be lazy, so we need to make sure that we don't become inactive sponges.
ReplyDeleteRight, Ellison. Use the force for good :) Nice post, Tim
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