Homework #4 - Triangle comments to Ian and Jacara

Jacara,
You started off your thoughts with an interesting idea about how the overwhelming influence the digital age has on our lives, creates a sense of laziness. People no longer have to get up to get what they want. Your idea makes me think, at any moment we can surf the Internet, shopping online for just about anything. On a computer or television screen products are simply a totally flat image, that we can not touch or try on. so what makes them so attractive to the consumers? Its really odd when you think hard about it, one minute its simply a figure of your imagination and in the matter of a few days or weeks its comes to life and is personally delivered to your door step where it is a real tangible objects (seems almost like magic).

Further reading your homework assignment i appreciate the fact that although you can criticize how the digital age is affecting our generation (for the worse), you still admit to falling under the norm as well.

You mention that we associate "the future" with the rapid advancement of technology. I'm curious to know where that idea all started. As humans evolved in to smarter people technology advanced, thinking about it, how much good did it actually do for the human race. Is it all for nothing since the downfall seems to be happening as i write this blog entry? Why have we come so far just to end it all?

Overall I really enjoyed your entries because I was better able to expand my thoughts on the topic. You where able to clearly express most of your ideas. I know if you had continued to add on and write more, even more amazing ideas would have come up Make sure to re-read your work over for any typos (I know no one likes to proof read, as you might find typos in mine, but its always a good idea!

Ian!
I see that you took the time to go back and write a second draft of your thoughts :) I really enjoyed what you had to say and you bring up a few good points that I never really thought about myself. You are able to remember experiences you have with people (actual human people) more than experiences you have with screens and digitalized personalities. The Memories that are personal to you mean more than the ones that are not.

Another interesting idea you bring up is that when humans are put in a situation where not much activity is happening, ill steal your example of sitting in a chair. Our mind tries to fight the fact that we are sitting in the chair, but it really only makes you think harder about that fact that you are in the chair, where as when you state at a screen you only notice that and nothing around you. You become alienated and almost zombie like. Although this is a really interesting point i would love to see you expand on it even more and relate it back to how it is involved with the fast paced world and the digital age. Why are our minds trained the the way they are? and do you think it has to do with the influence the media has on our everyday life?

You touch down on the good and bad points of having technology in your life, how you admit to spending hours playing games but with out screens you would not be able to do some of the things that ultimately make you smarted like communicating with people across the world.

Overall i really liked the points you brought up, next time i would double check your spelling, but then again it made it all the more original. :)