Click on the link above and let your mind be blown by the history of the Web. It's amazing how fast the development of the Web has gone and even more so how the speed of the development is accelerating.
I think the study of the Web is something that should be talked about more. In fact, it should even be a part of history classes. I know about it because I'm a Communications minor, yet, the Web affects all of us. It re-wires our brains and makes us act different.
Right now we are at a phase of transition where many people might reject the reality that we are changing drastically because of this. Yet, if we deny it we will completely lose ourselves. We need to embrace the positive things that the Web provides us with and challenge the negative ones. Why is it wrong to text at dinner? Is there a new code of manners that needs to be written about when technology is appropriate? Certainly, professors and teachers have made that code clear in their syllabus.
Yet the reality is that because we have changed as humans, we need to educate the new generation differently. Remember when your mom said, "Stand up straight and don't put your elbows on the table!" Now we have to say even to our friends, "Can you not text while we're having lunch?"
Yet, technology unites us. We can share videos, photographs and thoughts together as well. You and your friends can listen to music together from a playlist created by someone in Chile. You and your dad can see the funny video cousin John posted in your wall.
Be where you are. That is the key. Before texting, tweeting, changing your status or instagraming, see your surroundings and think if you are including or excluding people with technology.
When Guttenberg invented the printing press, literacy rose so that the elite, upper class wasn't the only one to understand the world and develop intellectual ideas. Now the Web has allowed us to create and share our ideas. Yet, it is important to remember that if we lose touch of the reality outside of the Web, we will never enjoy the world that we learn and undertand about within it.
I love your blog post! The picture at the end is so cute! You're writing style is clear and concise. You make the topic interesting and pull the reader in. Good job :)
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