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The human mind, when healthy and functioning, thirsts for knowledge and information. As technology advances, so does our desire to challenge the limits of what we know and what we want to know. The accessibility of information and how quickly we can receive it fuels the expansion of technology and developing networks. Without these advancements, we would be knowledge thirsty zombies searching for the next brain to suck. So what exists is a coexistence of the human mind and machine.
The egg cannot be without the chicken, and the chicken cannot be without the egg. It is an age old discussion, but in a way holds true to the symbiosis of human knowledge and the computer. Our advancing knowledge of the world around us has been aided by the growth of technology, which continues to grow because we challenge our limits of what we know. The world has grown significantly by the sharing of ideas and knowledge between humans and computers. Any information that needs to be acquired is available at the touch of a few buttons. Discussions between two people, or even multiple people, can occur when they are half way around the world from each other. People are finding that they do not need to be in the same room to be holding a discussion.
It is interesting to learn that information is as accessible as people had hoped it would be sixty years ago, their ideas of the future were not far off. However, it will be fascinating to see how it will be sixty years from now. All I can think of is Hyperion by Dan Simmons where people have chip implants and obtain information in nano seconds. And the warm human touch is being replaced by the glow of a computer screen, the haunting question is did people sixty years ago think of how these advancements would effect us culturally? I wonder how will it effect us as advancements continue?
I like your post. “Our advancing knowledge of the world around us has been aided by the growth of technology, which continues to grow because we challenge our limits of what we know.” That is so true. Without changes in society or of technology where would all of these new innovations that have come out today be? What is your opinion? Please comment.
Despite your intro, this makes perfect sense. But I think you could have dug a bit deeper. Actually, if you started with that last paragraph, and took off from there, making good use of the readings, I bet you would have ended up in some interesting places.