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Writer's Block: Pros and Cons
Mar. 5th, 2012 08:14 am[Error: unknown template qotd]Every big change makes some things better and some things worse.
With the invention of the compass, we forgot how to follow the sun and the stars. That's right - once upon a time, you wanted to go somewhere, you just looked up. Sure, there's no longer problems on cloudy days nor cloudy nights, but we've forgotten how to do something so simple. A piece of our natural intelligence is gone.
People don't communicate like they used to, and I think there are ways in which it's made it worse. You can't even meet people by way of small talk anymore - everyone's too busy texting. But once upon a time, maybe they would've been too busy reading the paper, or rushing off to send a telegram. "People these days," their contemporaries muttered.
And it has made the world better, in some ways. Cultural, social and religious boundaries can be taken away completely. Nobody immediately knows what I look like, what I believe, what my bank account statement looks like, or anything else. Okay, admittedly that isn't true for a lot of people, since the internet's become less anonymous, but even so, it happens, and I think that makes the world a little better.
Do i worry we've become too reliant on technology? For now, yes. But hopefully society will be able to adapt to the new change, and I have little doubt it will, and we'll grow with it. People had to learn how to drive safely once; we can learn how to balance between only communicating via twitter and having actual conversations.
With the invention of the compass, we forgot how to follow the sun and the stars. That's right - once upon a time, you wanted to go somewhere, you just looked up. Sure, there's no longer problems on cloudy days nor cloudy nights, but we've forgotten how to do something so simple. A piece of our natural intelligence is gone.
People don't communicate like they used to, and I think there are ways in which it's made it worse. You can't even meet people by way of small talk anymore - everyone's too busy texting. But once upon a time, maybe they would've been too busy reading the paper, or rushing off to send a telegram. "People these days," their contemporaries muttered.
And it has made the world better, in some ways. Cultural, social and religious boundaries can be taken away completely. Nobody immediately knows what I look like, what I believe, what my bank account statement looks like, or anything else. Okay, admittedly that isn't true for a lot of people, since the internet's become less anonymous, but even so, it happens, and I think that makes the world a little better.
Do i worry we've become too reliant on technology? For now, yes. But hopefully society will be able to adapt to the new change, and I have little doubt it will, and we'll grow with it. People had to learn how to drive safely once; we can learn how to balance between only communicating via twitter and having actual conversations.
