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Science, And It's Practical Applications, Is The Point

Johnathan Masters
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Science, And It's Practical Applications, Is The Point

At first I whenced at this question because there's a ridiculous amount of pros for technology in life, which applies most especially to education, the consolidation of life's philosophy. What could be a negative? It actually isolates us, instead of unite? There's more alienation, than community and solidarity? That technology could become smarter than us one day, and then we'd be their slaves? Old folks, Luddites, Amish... I don't get them. Technology is the application of science on practical matters, such as making tools. The olds have lived their lives without computers, and have succeeded successfully enough, so, to them, why try to learn something new at this point? Why teach an old dog new tricks?

Then I came across this video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lqM90eQi5-M. Alienation and isolation is a serious concern, moreso than the Terminator scenario, but ultimately, still, I choose technology. I choose to send the Luddites back to the Amish. The massive amounts of benefits of technology, especially computer technologies, with the creation of webpages, designing content, writing articles, to the use of applications to make other important projects, such as Constitutions, new laws, 3D printing, pure democratic potential, newspapers, books, science, health, engineering, it helps in all walks of life, even in menial jobs, so it's essential, and it's more essential in Appalachia because of it's large poverty population, and the Digital Divide is furthering the gap between rich and poor, and those who understand technology will have a much greater one upsmanship than the other. The most important thing about technology, in my opinion, is that one has the ability to use it to learn how to read, and then begin the lifelong process of reading in order to learn. Self-education, the most powerful form of education, since it requires wasting no other person's time for information that's plastered all over the Internet, the Gutenberg printing press Revolution, times potentially 7 Billion. Technology gives all students, of all classes, the ability to learn important computer skills, that's transferable virtually everywhere, and offers upward mobility of those in the ditches, because they can learn valuable skills, that are in high demand, and therefore, lucrative.

References

HigtonBros. (2014). What's on your mind? [Video File]. Retrieved from http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lqM90eQi5-M

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