Thursday, September 11, 2014
My Personal View
While reading INTO THE MEME and AFTER THE FLOOD, Gleick is clearing stating that there are resources available to be knowledgable but it's useless. On page 337, at the bottom of the page, Gleick states, ''' If the universe is a computer, we may still struggle to access it's memory. If it is a library, it is a library without shelves."' Now that technology is taking over, we'd rather run to a computer first than read what's been left behind and sooner or later we'll forget the passwords. I'm guilty of that. The second sentence it's like a history that never existed if no one picks up the books. Eistein also states something similar to my personal view on page 401, "'mankind is faced with nothing short of the loss of it's memory, and this memory is history. ''' We lose memory because we don't allow ourselves to remember those hurt things that hurt us but mold us. That's the whole start of history. It's written.
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I thought that this was interesting as well. I guess because we're such a (as my mother calls it) "microwave society" we just don't have, or want to make, the time to read and learn about something rather than just going straight to Google. But, it is still super important to try to pick up a book and read about something before you try to look it up on the internet. There are just somethings that you can't learn on Google.
ReplyDeleteMy take when I read that passage '''If the universe is a computer, we may still struggle to access it's memory. If it is a library, it is a library without shelves."' wasn't that we are forgoing the old in lieu of the new, but rather that there is so much available to us now as a result of the advancement of technology that it is impossible to take it all in. Especially now that communication and research are effectively unlimited thanks to the internet, it is easy to become overwhelmed by the vast amount of information available, and it would be impossible to ever learn everything there is to learn or "finish" learning. Maybe that was my take because I am a huge fan of the advancement of technology lol. Personally, I think certain forms of reading and writing are outdated and obsolete and I don't necessarily see anything wrong with their abandonment.
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