Monday, September 14, 2009
Hw 3 - Oh and One More Thing
Lets say for arguments sake, that the human brain can only concentrate on one specific idea at a time for a maximum of 10 minutes. And after that 10 minutes is up the mind automatically jumps to a new topic. Only after you have explored a generous amount of new topics can you go back and rethink on something. With a brain like that it doesn't seem that much information or concentration can be contained. What if that was reality? New things keep being introduced so quickly that there is a very small gap of time in between when product a is introduced relative to when product b introduced. This is how the buyers get tricked, they don't notice that everything that is coming out in the market has probably already been sold somewhere else at a cheaper price, hopefully in a place with free health care.
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Jacara,
ReplyDeleteYou started off your thoughts with an interesting idea about how the overwhelming influence the digital age has on our lives, creates a sense of laziness. People no longer have to get up to get what they want. Your idea makes me think, at any moment we can surf the Internet, shopping online for just about anything. On a computer or television screen products are simply a totally flat image, that we can not touch or try on. so what makes them so attractive to the consumers? Its really odd when you think hard about it, one minute its simply a figure of your imagination and in the matter of a few days or weeks its comes to life and is personally delivered to your door step where it is a real tangible objects (seems almost like magic).
Further reading your homework assignment i appreciate the fact that although you can criticize how the digital age is affecting our generation (for the worse), you still admit to falling under the norm as well.
You mention that we associate "the future" with the rapid advancement of technology. I'm curious to know where that idea all started. As humans evolved in to smarter people technology advanced, thinking about it, how much good did it actually do for the human race. Is it all for nothing since the downfall seems to be happening as i write this blog entry? Why have we come so far just to end it all?
Overall I really enjoyed your entries because I was better able to expand my thoughts on the topic. You where able to clearly express most of your ideas. I know if you had continued to add on and write more, even more amazing ideas would have come up Make sure to re-read your work over for any typos (I know no one likes to proof read, as you might find typos in mine, but its always a good idea!
Thanks for the comment, I like how you think its important to proof read. I rarely do so myself.
ReplyDeleteI think that it is important during this unit to actually accept that being digital is something that a lot of us rely on. So I won't say that being digital is completely hurting us as you say but I think it a matter of balancing how much you use your whatnots and gadgets.
But your comment actually helped me to further my thinking about how we are so amazed with flat 2-D images. I think that you make a good point here. For humans we seem to be amazed with the simplest and yet the most expensive of things.
So here we are these "advanced" people that have this wild obsessive fascination with these small simple things that somehow end up controlling our lives. Why do you think this is? Why do we need these little things?
Jacara,
ReplyDeleteYour theory that perhaps the human mind is built to only concentrate for 10 minutes at a time is an outcome of digitalization. Your mind is like that so you guess maybe minds are made that way.
We'll do a little of this in a week or two, but this relates -
http://www.cla.purdue.edu/academic/engl/theory/postmodernism/modules/baudlldsimulTnmainframe.html