Thursday, October 25, 2007

week7: #17 blog about technology

Adding my comment to another participant's blog was very odd. To me, the printed word is not something to deface or vandalize. Be kind to books. The big transition for me is understanding this is a conversation, not a printed work. Everyone and anyone can put in their 2 cents.

"Wonderful world" sung by Louis Armstrong is my theme song for trying to interface with technology. My first keyboard was a manual typewriter, and now I'm using the internet! By a trick of time this giant leap in technolog has taken place in my life-time which provides a backdrop of before and after.

While there are many upsides, I have to wonder if people are able to distingish between reason & logic, knowledge & wisdom. Even the littlest child toddles to the computer bank here at the library, reaching out almost instinctively for the mouse, staring at the screen. No matter the gender, language, or national origin this behavior is universal. Wonderful world.

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