Thursday, August 25, 2011
Get Smarter
Cascio's vision of the future portraits a society in which humans rely on technology for the majority of their everyday lives if not their entire lives. He states that in the years to come our mass accumulation of technology and knowledge will make us less prone to take actions of any sort, and the thought of this dependency on tecnology is alarming and pointing the human race into a path of inevitable destruction. Humans, he believes, will eventually become complacent and no longer feel the need to be innovative. This is another one of Cascio's reasons as to why we need to "get smarter", and soon before technology and not the human imagination and ingenuity control the fate of man kind.
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I pretty much agree with this summary, but now fully. It's not exactly what I got from the text, but what you're saying makes a lot of sense. Now that we're used to the convenience of modern technology, we're less prone to think for ourselves, and we need to use this technology to make our brains 'go back' to how they used to be. However, I also think the author is arguing on the behalf of technology, that it is actually helping humans become more innovative and independent.
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