I thought we could think for ourselves?

After all of the reading done in "The Shallows" I realized that the content of the internet is what is changing us. Every little thing that we use on the internet affects how our brain thinks and works. its like clocks for example... we are so dependent on them that if they no longer existed what would we do ?

Confessions..

"It is people who are disappointing each other. Technology merely enables us to create a mythology in which this does not matter".  Technology is very advanced to the point where you can say and do anything on any social network. I kinda thought about a twitter concept when I read this. "Subtweeting" People get so annoyed and irritated when they figure out that someone subtweeted them, after this happens a big arguement will come out of it on twitter. Technology just made that happen because you know that the person who subtweets someone wasnt going to confront them in person. People always dissapoint others because that is just life, but technology allows us to do it in a easier and not the best way.

Betrayal of ourselves

I highlighted this in Chapter 11. "Online worlds and role playing games ask you to construct, edit, and perform a self. Yet, In these performances, like the performances we saw with sociable robots, something else breaks through. When we perform a life through our avatars, we express our hopes, strengths, and vulerabilities".  I think that a lot is wrong with the world today, that people can not express those qualities about themselves in real life but they can online. No one is proud of who they are enough these days to express it out loud. Technology has made it so easy for us to ignore our hopes and strengths and create everything we image in a avatar online.

RANDOM

Does anyone else think its kinda ironic how before posting a comment it makes you type the words you see to make sure you are not a robot? This has nothing to do with the book.. but It kinda relates to the fact of "robots".

technology is enhancing everything

When I was little, I never played with any of the robot like toys. I didnt play with them because I thought they were kinda strange because of how they even worked. Now, technology is getting so much more advance. By technology being this advanced, a lot more complex robot like toys are capable of making. People probably thought that with this much technology, we can skip the toys and try to make life like robots. That is what is going on now, they are making cog robots and these robots are seriously life like..kinda creepy. I think that this is effecting commmunication with real people. People say that texting and email avoid communication but I think fake people do too.

How Kids Think Now....

As I started reading "Alone Together", I found certain topics that kinda caught my attention. The one that caught my most attention was " A ten-year old girl told me that she would prefer a robot turtle because aliveness comes with aesthtic inconvenience". (pg 4)  When I was little and even still now I love animals, and always use to think "why cant these animals be real" when I went to a museum or theme park. This just showed me how much the different generations think now. Kids think greater things will come out of technology instead of reality.

Looking Forward...Whats Next and Who is to Blame?

I love how Bauerlein refers to the certain age group from 22-30 as the "twixsters".  These are people that basically just got by. The made it through college and got jobs but in the end will still end up living with their parents. The reason for this is because they think they have reached their full expectation and the truth is they have only done the least. What people need is for the generation above them to encourage them to make their standards higher and be willing to work harder than what is just expected. If its the generations above us's fault than just imagine what the generations after us are going to be like?..