A century ago, when the telephone first started to become widely used, the dominant concern was that people would get overwhelmed with information and wouldn’t be able to deal with it. When radio-the first electronic medium-started to quickly spread around the world, some thought it would destroy the family way of life as then lived, bringing the world into the home and, with it, the outside influences and various ways of looking at the world.
When t.v took off in the United States between 1947 and 1955, there were loud social ruminations about how it would demolish reading and that literacy rates would decrease as everyone lost the desire to read. Around this same time, there were two new art forms that were clearly going to lead to the destruction of the moral fabric: comic books and rock ‘n’ roll. While these were not new technologies, they were social craze based on technologies.
Recently, there has been a lot of discussion that asks whether our growing addiction to all things digital is making us dumber. Commentators-including President Barack Obama-have talked about how adults are increasingly suffering from digital distraction and are losing the ability to focus for extended periods of time.
The Internet, the connectivity all our digital devices provide us and the increasing new ways to combine these forces is one of the most trans formative events in the history of human communication. It has, is and will completely change our lives, individually and collectively. It is here to stay and will only increase in speed, magnitude and effect going forward. It is a force that can positively transform us in the coming decade.
Every time there is a new, transforming technology, it always causes concern. When Gutenberg invented the movable type press in 1455, the decades that followed were full of dismay. What would reading do to the acquisition of knowledge? At that time, the common belief was that one could not learn unless one wrote things down and that reading would never become a way to learn. This position was propagated by the entrenched interests at the time-the scribes who wrote all the manuscripts.
One of the criticisms of our addiction to digital devices is that we’re constantly checking them for email, texts and notifications, feeling the need to constantly be in connection with others. That’s certainly true, but it isn’t something shocking. Whenever some new technology arrives that expands our ability to see beyond our physical reality, it initially transfixes us.
One of the key criticisms of our use of the Internet is that we are becoming superficial, going around from website to website. Our persistent use of search engines is looked at as being superficial. Everything I want to know about anything in the world is right here on the computer screen or the tablet screen or the smart phone or the app phone. To have the ability to search for just about anything and find it instantaneously makes the acquisition of knowledge and information immediate and available to anyone with an Internet connection. Few scholars in recorded history have ever had that opportunity. It has become a reality for us all. No wonder we’re excited by the wonderment of it all!
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