Google is making us REtarded.

I do agree that "What Taylor did for the work of the hand is what Google is doing for the work of the mind" because of the quickness it has added to our lifestyles. Taylor looked for ways to speed up the way humans operated they're daily lifestyles, while Google has offered instant answers for whatever questions someone can think of. Google has even become a verb, for instance someone will tell you to just "Google it" whenever there is an answer that you don't know. People can look up anything they wish and copy anything also from any site Google can produce. Copying whole essays and using Google during class has become more popular. They no longer have to think for themselves because it has become a means of convenience to just type in whatever you please. I wouldn't say we are becoming stupid, because after all these people still have to think of the questions to ask. I do say people have become lazy though because they do not venture into books or think up their own answers to these questions that they have. Google has branched itself into every aspect of people's lives now with tshirts, homepages for internet users, and of course the famous Google site. Seriously the guy that created this probably wipes his booty with 100 dollar bills. Insanity, I tell ya.. Haha sorryy for the mental image. Anywayss, oh yeah I forgot, you can text Google too if you didn't already know that. Yes, its made an impact on our cellular devices as well, my friend. 46645 or GOOGL is the number to text for like.. Business addresses and such. All in favor of who use it.. Ha, guilty. It has replaced paper research and made instant gratification that much more accessible, and the resulting product is none other than future generations of laziness and ignorance. Sad, sad day..

Post modernism - What does it all mean?

I believe that there has always been a correlation between knowledge and power, but recently times have indeed changed. Regardless of how smart you are, power is instituted by popularity and media now, not the ability to build mass contraptions for the good of humanity. Power is based on numbers. The more votes that can be pulled in, the more CD's sold, the more viewers for a TV station. I think that's what we're heading toward to be honest. It isn't necessarily the quality of the person, the work, the machine; I believe its the efficiency and what can be brought forth in the shortest amount of time possible. Yes, bigger is always better in most cases, and this theory was definitely kept in mind when new computers, iPods, and other technologically savvy devices were developed. Yet, they keep improving, why? When will we be satisfied? When, if ever, will humans seize the need for the split second gratification that has enveloped our society and morphed it into a postmodern idealistic world? The numbers keep growing, but what does this say? Is this good, bad, a sign of turmoil? Must we stop or continue on with this need for statistical comparisons that are used to constantly "improve" our way of living? We recently talked about deconstruction in class, and in a way this is what we are leading up to here. Numbers are being tossed and replaced so quickly, there is no foundation or basis to be politically criticized or argued upon, if I may paraphrase from Postmoderism. The world seems to turn a little more quickly on its axis these days, and we're all going to have serious migraines if all this improvement gets out of hand, if it hasn't done so already.

Cat's Cradle :)

So far, I like this book collectively. Kurt Vonnegut is a simplistic genius. There aren't really any pictures in this one, so that kinda sucks, but the imagery is priceless. Like when the youngest son is describing his father when he shows him the cat's cradle, how horrid you know? Vonnegut is so crafty when it comes to thinking out of the box, so right brain. The father I believe is a reflection of his thinking, that abnormal detachment that you don't find in most people. I mean, the guy is building an atom bomb and couldn't care less about the uses of this invention or the amount of deaths that will occur once its used.
For instance, "What is sin?" is a definite red flag that this guy has a screw loose. He's amoral. I wouldn't say careless, because it does seem that he has feelings and the potential to care about something by the way he treats that piece of string to make his cat's cradle. I wonder what the cat's cradle symbolizes. It's a support system for a cat.. Yeah I got nothing. I have to keep reading. Anyway, the layout Vonnegut has plotted so far is funny, in my opinion. There's a midget, a bug fighter, an estranged bomb maker, and a sister that has "3 kids", and a guy that is super fascinated with all of it. It's like a reality show. So clever. These all must symbolize something. The bug fighting son is a small scale representation of his father, D said that in class. The father sees absolutely nothing wrong with his son's activity, even though it is something many children do. But, when he hits his sister and she's screaming? He does nothing about it, and better yet, its almost a transparent occurrence to him because its like he never saw it at all. Strange.