Concerns In the Now Age

Everyone cannot deny that nowadays, the world develops in an unbelievable rapid speed. And after the Industrial Revolution, people became aware of the powerful strength of science and technology, and the prosperity of Japan’s economy proved it once again. These facts lead People to believe that they have to get need education. Only if they have some valuable skills to make money, they can survive, or they would be ruthless obsoleted by the society. So people now focus on how to manipulate machines, to become more efficient and competitive. Technology seems omnipotent in people’s minds now.

As the opinion presented by Nicholas Carr in his paper “Is Google Making Us Stupid?”，Internet provide him an extremely incredible life, and like a godsend, he can quickly got the telltale fact or pithy quote he was after by a few Google search instead of sitting all the day round in a library doing some reading. However, does that way of learning more helpful than the conditional one in every aspect? Many people do question about it including Carr, because they find out that their capacity of reading is descending. They cannot calm down to reading something anymore. Even though, Carr talk about some historical technical developments and their significant influences, many famous researches indicate that people feel more comfortable to study and take note through their pens instead of using computers. 

All of these concerns are explored in Chris Hedges’ article “America the Illiterate”. He pointed out that a large amount of Americans do not want to read books since they graduate from school and go to work. With the advanced media resources, people rely more on the images and want to have entertainment instead of calming down to do some readings. People care about different things as time changes. However, from my perspective, we cannot define some people are illiterate simply due to their unwillingness to do academic reading. Not all the people are writers. The guy learns computer science don't need to take the clarity of spirits into account in their daily life. They may care about news, the innovation of products, which can be accessed through the Internet. And That's enough.