Digital Revolution

I'm posting this here because all longer posts ( what Wei Hsiang and Jim have done is correct) should be blogged as posts rather than comments. The comments part is for you to leave responses to other people's ideas, etc. Ghostgum

I've seen all of these that I could, although the YouTube video that was imbedded in another sight was 'no longer available' so I couldn't see it.
That first YouTube video was amazing. It seems to be completely for the 'Digital Revolution'. It's amazing how digital technologies penetrate the society, I can't even come close to imagining life without things like Google.com or Live.com. And the way the time is ever decreasing for new technologies to reach 40,000,000 people is amazing. 38 years for the radio, to only four years for the internet, and two years for Facebook.

The way there are so many new words in English, compared to Shakespeare's time, really shows how technologies are shaping our lives, as a large portion of these words will be things relating to technologies (ie. 'Internet', 'Computer' etc.).

I can't believe that one weeks worth of New York Times contains more information then a person's whole life in the 18th century. It really shows how far the world has come, and how far it will probably go in the near future.

If that video is correct, by the year 2049 which is within our lifetimes their will be a computer of average cost (the average iMac today costs $1300) will be more intelligant than the entire human species, now while this is great for computing technologies, one can't help but remember '2001: A Space Odyssey' ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2001:_A_Space_Odyssey_(film) )

In the other video, I noticed it said how computer games where actually helping kids learn things, and expanding their knowledge. I happen to agree with this, as I know that even some violent games, like 'God of War', which I happen to have played, contains puzzle-like activities, in which you must actually think to know how to do something. Playing the game 'Runescape', a long time ago, was when I first learnt about stalicmites and stalictites, and also when I learnt what bronze was (copper with some tin), and how steel was made (iron with carbon added).

Unfortunately, that Digital Youth audio thing won't work, so I can't see it, and it won't let me download it and play it from my desktop, so I can't comment on it.
Basically, I don't think that our generation is the dumbest because of these technologies, In fact, I think they could actually be improving our intelligance.

PS: Sorry if this is too informal, I'm not sure.
PSS: Blogger won't let me blogg at 'BOOK & BLOG', the blog that Mr. Jaques blogges at a lot, does anyone know how I can change this?

December 15, 2008 8:06 PM Jim Cullen