Wednesday, September 28, 2011

Is the Machine using us?

The "Machine" of the Internet is clearly using us. Each day millions and millions of people upload videos to Youtube, update statuses on Facebook, tweet, email, and post. Even now while I write on this blog, I am a part of this "Machine"-a larger, interactive whole that will take my information and opinions and spit them at everybody else who inhabits the Web. This is not a bad thing, but rather a simple evolution of technology and the role of people within this technology.
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  1. Ethna LaySeptember 29, 2011 at 5:08 AM

    Identify what you mean by "a bad thing." Is a bad thing the technology? the laptop? the blog? the reliance on any of these?

    For me, bad things are the stuff of nightmares. Those concrete objects that can make me lose sleep and rest. Bad things are upsetting and uncomfortable.

    Here the only window you give into the way the machine is using you (us) is that it is NOT a bad thing.

    Remember how inefficient the negative morpheme is in English.

    What are you arguing?

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