Hw 8

Hey Quinn,
Thats a pretty creative video. I like how you have the whole phone thing along with your computer and homework. It really gives you insight into what teenagers really do. Like talking to people on the phone while you do your homework. To teenagers that is a common way of life. Then cutting it short to play some xbox. I mean thats what i do, and it treats me ok. Maybe next time show what your doing on the computer or on the paper. But other then that i thought it really did show what us kids do when were not in school.

Anyway, in response to that video, its kind of sad, thats only 2 minutes of my life and yet i do stuff like that for a lot longer. That was just two minutes out of a whole night of doing that. I probably should read and do stuff similar to that but i am not going to lie, the internet is much more interesting then a book. Or thats how it seems to me. And no i wouldn't want my children being like this. I would want them to be able to read and say, ok i am done with the internet and then turn it off and read. Which is better then anything i can do now.

Interviews and Surveys

For my first interview i asked my mom some questions, i started out with what do you think of Digitalization and then moved to how has it changed since you were a child, then what gives you this opinion?

She started with firmly stating that digitilization was a good thing and because of that we are moving along much much faster as a society. Back when she was a child she didn't have this kind of stuff and regardless of that fact she loves that she has it now especially because she works in the news buisness. If she couldn't get information right on the spot when she needed it then she wouldn't have a job because what she is doing needs it to be fresh and new. And even more then that she believes that it isn't corrupting the youth of today but educating and connecting us even more then before

For my second interviews i asked strangers on the street an assortment of questions that went from what do you think of Digitalization and how does it affect you? And, Could you survive without your cellphone of camera? Then, what would you do with out it?

A great interview was with two business people dressed in suits who said that technology was great, they didn't like it but they thought it was doing wonderful things to our society, They said that is was making people bring their work home with them by always being connected. Then when asked if they could live without it they said that they had just come from an open house and people had to turn their blackberry's and halfway through they were itching to turn them back on. For my second interview i talked to an ex-school teacher. When asked the same questions she said it had great intentions but it is turning our society into one that doesn't read the same books and is turning abbreaviations into a language. Texting and IMing is taking our communication skills. Yet we couldn't live without it. What a strange concidence.

For A good friend i interviewed a childhood friend named Aila because she has always had a different point of view on things, not in a bad way, she just sees things differently, so i thought it would be interesting to see what she had to say about this.

Her opinion about if it were bad or good was simply magnificant, she thought it was terrible, which is odd for a teenager of our generation. She thought that people were beginning to live for the future and forgetting what life was really about. Which is living for today because we never know what curveball tomorrow might throw. She thought that it was encouraging the world to engage in war and because it is pushing everyone further and further. Then when asked if she could go without it she gave mixed responses. She doesn't want to live with it but cant do anything else, everyone is connected so if she isn't then she is a social outcast and everyone has their limits. Sometimes people get too deep before they realize where they stand

HW 4 - Triangular Comments 1

hey will, i really liked the connection to how the internet doesn't dumb you down but puts all the information together so that we can be better educated and have easier access to all the information that is available to us instead of having to look everywhere for it. You said that although the digitilization of the world is pulling together and at the same time making our world a more dangerous place. Which is what companies are saying. Their products are good things, but as you said, more and more car crashes are being linked to cell phone usage. Somethings that you could add in there is that by putting all the information in one place it could also be more accessable to people who shouldn't have it, or people who could do bad things with it. Which is why this world is such an angry place, everyone wants power and some people are willing to go to extreme lengths to get it. So maybe by making this world a little more equal we wouldn't have so many of those problems. Some of these thoughts are going in a really good direction, you should get some reasearch to back them up and turn it into something

This new electronic world

Now i am not going to blow any smoke here, before writing this i spent way to much time on this computer surfing the internet, listening to music and talking to friends. Now where does this get me? Nowhere is the answer, but why is that such a problem? I understand that not ever doing anything is a problem, but why cant we have day off to relax on the internet and look up funny pictures or go shopping or do whatever people do on the internet. 

I know that i am a big fan of Fmylife.com and youtube.com. Both of those sites bring me endless amusement and put a smile on my face. But now what people are saying is that these computers and cell phones are making us stupid but i have the perfect example of why they are the best thing that could have happened. 

One day i was in union square and i was with some friends when suddenly i get a bunch of texts from different people telling me that an airplane just crashed into the river. Just as soon as they knew, i knew. And then i passed the information along. But without texting or the computers i would never have known until i got home. 

But what if it were more serious. Like there was a bomb scare near where i was. I like having a little device in my pocket that provides a link to a world of possibilities. On it i can read the news and check my emails. Everyone knew about Michael Jackson's death sooner because it was all over facebook. Through all these little things we become more in the know about the world around us. Call me crazy but i don't think that is too terrible.