With computers, cell phones, PDA's, IPod’s, and Blackberries able to store all the information we could ever need, will time bring a decrease in brain power for our future generations? Not to mention Google and the ability to look anything up in a fraction of a second. What is the point of learning and memorizing?
As society steadily becomes more and more reliant on these somewhat new sources of storage and information the human brain will devolve. People once had to rely on memory, phone books, file cabinets, and encyclopedias that required time and patience to find what one was looking for. Today we can find the same information in a matter of .33 seconds. The TI-89 calculator can do just about any math problem so what is the point of taking calculus and other math classes.
Will all types of class’s be taken over by technology classes? With the exception of learning technology schooling will become obsolete and college will be taken over by computer science engineering.
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ReplyDeleteI definately see your point in the fact that our world has become way too absorbed with technology. But with the technological world advancing as quickly as it is today, how are we to stop it and save the intelligence of humans? We should bomb China
I see your concerns, however, I don't think all of our classes will be overtaken by technology classes because there is still quite a few subjects that technology can't do for us. English, is a good example of that. Because plagiarism is so easily detected through computer programs, students will always have to be extremely thorough when writing their papers to avoid doing it. In other words, students MUST think for themselves. Given, it is now easier to find information that we need for these papers online, in the end, we still need to put it into our own words and use our brains. So yes, computers do make us more efficient in finding information, but when it comes down to it, we still need to use our brains. If someone asks us a question we should know the answer to, we can't really just say, "hold on, let me Google that really quick." It would make us look very unintelligent.
ReplyDeleteI agree with Summer Skies, I can accept your concerns and see why you might suggest that but I don't think all classes will be replaced. While the internet is full of information it is not a self-educated being in the sense that everything on the internet was on some level created by humans. Their knowledge is essential to the continuing success of the internet. I also don't think the human brain will dissolve, that might have just been a figure of speech, but the human brain is essential for life and I don't think reliance on the internet will end our existence.
ReplyDeleteRight on comments. College isn't about cramming your brains with information. Computers are like the "information highway," but we still have to think. Learning how to learn is the most important part of college, not cramming your head full of facts.
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