+Quote: “Our social framework has not changed: from our family units to our military units, he points out, our social structures remain fairly similar to what they were over 1000 years ago. “The Internet itself is not changing the fundamental reality of my thinking any more than it is changing our fundamental proclivity to violence or our innate capacity for love.”
-This quote means that even though the way we do things is changed by using technology, ultimately it hasn’t changed our social constructs, or how we socialize or live in society. I feel this to be slightly true, but also false. The fact is that technology has built barriers between some people, while others it’s opened the door for connection. Those that live farther away often socially closer than those sitting right in front of us.
-Memory:
+One memory I have about technology is when I was little, I would often wake up early to draw, write or read. I didn’t have access to a computer or a smartphone, or video games, the way I kept myself occupied was to one of those 3 things. It would be hours before I even had to go to school and my mother would find me at the dining table, drawing or painting, that table still has paint and glitter from my childhood on it. That changed when I got older and technology became more of my life. I still do those three things, reading, writing and drawing, however, I do it on a technology-based platform. I went from writing on notebook paper to typing in google docs, or on Wattpad. This I feel has increased my ability, my mind often runs faster than my hands can write, so I often lose precious ideas before I can get them written down. Now I can write much faster, with definitions and a thesaurus my fingertips, which in my opinion has made my writing far better than it was previously. Another thing I’ve noticed is, with typing, because my hands can keep up with my brain, my writing tends to be better. Similarly, when I was little I would draw on any paper I could find, I’ve moved digital painting as I got older. When this happened, I found I was missing a key element to my drawing, the feel of it. While I draw I feel the movement of the pencil, I feel the texture of the paper and the graphite on my hand, I can often be more precise in some ways than I can digitally. My skills sometimes seemed like they atrophied over time, even though I was still drawing, I couldn’t seem to transition from digital to physical as easily, as I could from physical to digital. When it came to reading, I used to read physical books, as technology like kindles and online books entered my life I realized I could read without the lights on, which at first made me very happy. But soon I began to miss the idea of a physical book in my hands, and the feel of the pages and the weight of it.
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