After reading the beginning of this article, I thought, "uh oh, more dry material for me to drudge through." But it didn't take long for me to really start thinking about what this article was really saying, and how dead right this guy was even though the article was obviously written along time ago. There's a newer commercial were people are ignoring life while giving all their attention to their phones. A wife in a sexy nighty trying to get her hubby in the mood, a kid trying to play baseball with his Dad to no avail..."it's time for a phone to save us from our phones" it says at the end. That's us now and this article said it 50 years ago!
I think when this article was written we as a society were leaning toward a "symbiosis" with the computer, but its rather obvious now that our society couldn't function, at least as we know it, without our machine counterparts. I'm a bit older than most of my fellow students, and I remember having to plan things with people thoroughly before you separated or went about your individual business. Now, we rely so heavily on our pocket miracles, you can just hit the road and wing it. I can google directions, call anyone on a whim, get my banking done, snap photos and share them with the world...all instantly from a device in pocket.
I really enjoyed the first weed of readings and am excited about were we are going in this class. Looking forward to next week...Happy Fathers Day everyone!
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