| Castout |
03-10-10 07:53 PM |
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How about electronic publishing? Try reading a book on disc. At best, it's an unpleasant chore: the myopic glow of a clunky computer replaces the friendly pages of a book. And you can't tote that laptop to the beach. Yet Nicholas Negroponte, director of the MIT Media Lab, predicts that we'll soon buy books and newspapers straight over the Intenet. Uh, sure.
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There's such computer peripheral that's called PRINTER.
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What the Internet hucksters won't tell you is tht the Internet is one big ocean of unedited data, without any pretense of completeness. Lacking editors, reviewers or critics, the Internet has become a wasteland of unfiltered data. You don't know what to ignore and what's worth reading.
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They don't tell you because you're expected to be aware of that! It's called virtual street smart where one is expected to be apply his or her own judgment with regard to the information that he or she got from the internet.
In less than free countries there's no such thing as freedom of press thus the people in that country only read what their government want them to read even to the point of printing propaganda as news headline. This is INSULTING to the people's intellect and no way to develop the community to be an independent and critical lot. It's best to make a community of bots and zombies.
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Logged onto the World Wide Web, I hunt for the date of the Battle of Trafalgar. Hundreds of files show up, and it takes 15 minutes to unravel them—one's a biography written by an eighth grader, the second is a computer game that doesn't work and the third is an image of a London monument. None answers my question, and my search is periodically interrupted by messages like, "Too many connectios, try again later."
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One needs to be internet smart to find what he's looking for from the internet. It's still way faster than coming to a physical library one place at a time and look for the information yourself
"What the Internet hucksters won't tell you is tht the Internet is one big ocean of unedited data, without any pretense of completeness. Lacking editors, reviewers or critics, the Internet has become a wasteland of unfiltered data. You don't know what to ignore and what's worth reading. "
The fact that the writer himself knows that the internet is one big ocean of unedited data and information is a BIG HINT that everybody else who's reading this will know that too after using the internet after some short while
And whose standard should all the information be edited to? Hitler's? Stalin's? CIA? or the kid next door?
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These expensive toys are difficult to use in classrooms and require extensive teacher training. Sure, kids love videogames—but think of your own experience: can you recall even one educational filmstrip of decades past? I'll bet you remember the two or three great teachers who made a difference in your life.
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A decade ago they didn't use filmstrip to teach students. Even when they did they would use it only rarely. The writer is mentioning the computer as toys that implies that they are TOOL not meant to replace any human teacher! So What's the point of saying that it couldn't replace human teachers? Because they are not meant to replace people!
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Stores will become obselete. So how come my local mall does more business in an afternoon than the entire Internet handles in a month? Even if there were a trustworthy way to send money over the Internet—which there isn't—the network is missing a most essential ingredient of capitalism: salespeople.
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Well that would mean his local mall is either in a very good business time or the internet business he set up was not winning over competition. Because most probably ONLINE BUSINESSES COMPETE GLOBALLY!
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What's missing from this electronic wonderland? Human contact. Discount the fawning techno-burble about virtual communities. Computers and networks isolate us from one another. A network chat line is a limp substitute for meeting friends over coffee.
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That's the whole point of internet that we could stay in touch even though we are not physically near one another. It's called communication technology the same with LIVE TV, MOBILE SET, SNAIL MAIL, TELEGRAM, RADIO. |
