Reflection on Professor's Blog

Television, computers, smartphones and tablets have become Americas crutch. They have become the things we rely on the most to give us the answers we seek. They tell us how we should live our lives. They give us the voice we always wanted but praise the ignorant and shun the intellectual. Technology is beginning to dumb America down, having us no longer do for ourselves but have other things and other people do it for us. Critical thinking has become a thing of the past instead if you have a question we look to search engines that we believe has the answers to everything you could possibly ever want to know.

So I agree with what is being said in my professors blog. We fail to realize that we live in "a virtual world where the irrelevant and the sublime are given equal voice." We've stopped questioning who's information is really accurate, and began to follow along the footsteps of providing insufficient information right along with them.

We start to determine our value and worth based of how many likes we get on a post or by how many "friends" we have, when in reality half of the people you call your friends don't even know who you are.

Will there ever be a solution to the point where our kids can grow up knowing that thinking for themselves and having their own opinion isn't looked down upon, its appreciated? Who knows. 

Until then...we wait.