"Web 2.0 ... The Machine is Us/ing Us”, by Michael Wesch, talks about how the advancements of technology (specifically text) has opened up a lot of avenues for people to use. Blogs, YouTube videos, websites, all of those things have been opened to us essentially through text. Text written on paper is harder to change and move while you can do all these amazing things with text on the internet. We can now gather massive storages of information which would be impossible to do with text on paper.
I believe that in some this is a good advancement for humanity. It does allow us to gather larger amounts of information and garner intelligence. At the same time it takes away a little of what makes us humans. Humans are supposed to go out into the world to find intelligence; not just sit at a computer and type in what they want to know. Yes this does connect people, but are those good connections? Can people actually claim to be friends with or know someone if they have never met or even talked to them? We have made a great thing with the internet but it can also be a threat. I don’t mean a threat to the nation (although it probably could be) but I mean a threat to individuals. Many kids are bullied at school and the internet just gives them another place to be bullied which might lead to them committing suicide. Predators are another problem. People claim that we try to protect children from them, yet we give them another opportunity to harm children. All in all, I believe that the internet is an amazing invention but it is just as bad as it is good.
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