In his article “Get Smarter”, Jamais Cascio, an artist and futurist, talks about the significance of the Net in positively shaping our brain’s ability to accommodate to our future environment. The author appreciates the fact that the Internet gives us the ability to see enhancements in our medium and allows us to acquire the “fluid of intelligence the ability to find meaning in confusion and to solve new problems, independent of acquired knowledge”.(Cascio) In others word, our cognitive ability is first evolving in order to respond to changes that are happening. Secondly, by reacting to the complexity of range of media, which provide us with different outlooks we can identify with, we are moving toward technological and more advanced
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In my opinion, humankind’s evolution is an ongoing process We are in the quest of finding clues that will boost our understanding of the world around us and solve critical issues by fostering our “cognitive calisthenics”. Furthering this idea, I support that technological evolution_the Net_ creates a world where the impossible turns to possible. Nicholas Carr after his article “Is Google Making Us Stupid?” arguing that technology reconnects our mental habits of concentration and contemplation while reading, he also states “Once I was a scuba diver in the sea of words. Now I zip along the surface like a guy on a Jet Ski.” (Carr) By endorsing that point, Carr fails to consider the importance to the net or technology for blind people. RON McCallum, a labor law scholar, demonstrated, in a TEDx “how technology allows [...][him] to read”, using Ray Kurzweil reader, technological invention which scans books and reads them aloud. He said: “ “[...]. I love stories. I want to read." Little did I know that I would be part of a technological revolution that would make that dream come true.” (McCallum) Those lines express how technology can actually shape something that sighted people tend to take for granted to an enhancement for blind people. The upshot of all of this is that technology is the sole saver of humanity as it gives us an ethos of responsibility in the
In my opinion, humankind’s evolution is an ongoing process We are in the quest of finding clues that will boost our understanding of the world around us and solve critical issues by fostering our “cognitive calisthenics”. Furthering this idea, I support that technological evolution_the Net_ creates a world where the impossible turns to possible. Nicholas Carr after his article “Is Google Making Us Stupid?” arguing that technology reconnects our mental habits of concentration and contemplation while reading, he also states “Once I was a scuba diver in the sea of words. Now I zip along the surface like a guy on a Jet Ski.” (Carr) By endorsing that point, Carr fails to consider the importance to the net or technology for blind people. RON McCallum, a labor law scholar, demonstrated, in a TEDx “how technology allows [...][him] to read”, using Ray Kurzweil reader, technological invention which scans books and reads them aloud. He said: “ “[...]. I love stories. I want to read." Little did I know that I would be part of a technological revolution that would make that dream come true.” (McCallum) Those lines express how technology can actually shape something that sighted people tend to take for granted to an enhancement for blind people. The upshot of all of this is that technology is the sole saver of humanity as it gives us an ethos of responsibility in the