Yesterday while I was at tennis practice for some reason my
coach and I got on the subject about how technology used to be back during her
time in the 70’s and how it has evolved into the 21st century. Some
examples are of course the typewriter s to the computers, payphones to cell
phones, book encyclopedias to the internet and lastly the library to online
books, kindles or shortcutting the books. I will definitely say that I am
extremely thankful that we have the internet and I can’t even force myself to
complain against it and say that we have it hard. Especially after talking with
the my coach and hearing about how she had to actually look up information in
the encyclopedia and look through card catalogs to find articles and old newspaper articles, it made
me really appreciate the simple things we take for granted. Microsoft Word and
Google are my two main most granted for inventions. Had it not been for Bill
Gates and his most famous software we would be writing research papers and
thesis’ and other such papers either on handwritten or with the typewriter
still. As for Google, Google is my best friend. I have no idea where I would be
without my heavy reliance on that beautiful search engine, but unfortunately it
has taken away from what I am capable of doing. I am grateful for Google but
are anyone of you guys disappointed that is does diminish your capabilities?
I agree with you when you say google diminishes your capabilities because it causes you to do absolutely no research what so ever which shortens our attention span. I feel all this technology is slowly eating our brains which very bad for the human race.
ReplyDeleteIn your post Ridhi, you point out that without Bill Gates we would be writing papers by hand or by the typewriter. One thing that really irks me is that you assume without Gates' inventions, we would still be writing papers in an old-fanshoined way. The problem is, if you take Gates out of the picture, say he never existed, how would you know that someone else would not have come up with another document-composing program? I would even say that if Gates did not invent those, someone else probably would have invented something very similar.
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