Matt Edgar also commentates on how now we use the Internet
for everything. He says that now instead of going to the library and searching through
the books to find the answer to our question, we just type it into a search
engine, even though the answer will be less accurate and probably worse as well
as less fitting to our needs.
This shows how our generation has changed. It has become
more technologically advanced, making the technology do the work for us. Our
generation has become lazier with the Internet and we mainly depend on it.
Matt Edgar uses some good examples, which show how we have
changed and moved on, but I believe this has made us lazier.
Think about this:
Order the journal or cut and paste from a random Google
Books snippet view?
Track down the original 12-inch vinyl or settle for the
bedroom remix on MP3?
Search through books in the library or search for it on the
Internet and settle for any answer?
You know what you should
do, and you know what you will do.
Matt Edgar uses a metaphor ‘like a theatrical lighting
effect’ to describe the above. Using it he means that the technological side is
so bright and visible to us that it darkens the non-technological stuff so we
don’t see it and forget about it.
I find this idea very worrying, but on the other hand, interesting and true.
