Change is inevitable. It is no secret that advancements in time and ideas are destined to change the status quo, but the foresight to analyze the gray area where change occurs is often times unknown because change does not come easy. From the world’s most renowned scholars in ancient Greece detesting the shift from oral-based rhetoric to writing, to influential elites hindering the printing press from breaking long-standing institutions, these examples parallel the modern case of writing alongside automation facing venerable opposition while sitting on the cusp of a similar seismic shift. Momentum garnered from automation is changing numerous facets of everyday life, and it is only a matter of time before automation breaks through and changes
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The Digital Divide is the term that describes the gap between people with and without access to the internet ranging from economic to racial factors. The 2013 United States Census indicates 98 percent of Americans having access to internet services. However, it still establishes that a quarter of those people do not have access to broadband or a consistent platform for internet at home. Studies by the Pew Research Center and Fact Tank in 2016 show a stark contrast in the digital divide through educational and economic factors. There is a 24 percent difference between college and high school graduates, a 22 percent difference between users who make 75k or more a year and users who make less than 50k a year (Rainie). At one point these numbers were slowly closing at the turn of the century, but since 2010, the margins have …show more content…
Institutions like the ones in place today are embedded because of the extents it had to go through to come to fruition, but change is still inevitable. In Tom Standage’s 2013 book, Writing on the Wall, he points out that in the Phaedrus—which is a written dialogue—even “Socrates complains that writing undermines the need to remember things and weakens the mind, creating forgetfulness in the learners soul, because they will not use their memories” (19). Socrates had some of the very same ideas as Carr. Socrates pointed out all of the cognitive ailments that could occur if society was no longer oral based. Like Carr, there is validity in his statements, but not
The Digital Divide is the term that describes the gap between people with and without access to the internet ranging from economic to racial factors. The 2013 United States Census indicates 98 percent of Americans having access to internet services. However, it still establishes that a quarter of those people do not have access to broadband or a consistent platform for internet at home. Studies by the Pew Research Center and Fact Tank in 2016 show a stark contrast in the digital divide through educational and economic factors. There is a 24 percent difference between college and high school graduates, a 22 percent difference between users who make 75k or more a year and users who make less than 50k a year (Rainie). At one point these numbers were slowly closing at the turn of the century, but since 2010, the margins have …show more content…
Institutions like the ones in place today are embedded because of the extents it had to go through to come to fruition, but change is still inevitable. In Tom Standage’s 2013 book, Writing on the Wall, he points out that in the Phaedrus—which is a written dialogue—even “Socrates complains that writing undermines the need to remember things and weakens the mind, creating forgetfulness in the learners soul, because they will not use their memories” (19). Socrates had some of the very same ideas as Carr. Socrates pointed out all of the cognitive ailments that could occur if society was no longer oral based. Like Carr, there is validity in his statements, but not