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Megan McMurray Reflection #1
To be completely frank, the article titled As We May Think, was as dry as the photography that is talks about. I feel the opening of the article was good and stimulated many thoughts such as: Why is it that we rely so much on technology in professions that were built on the opposite of technology and rather focused on the mind and its capabilities. I feel that technology, although useful and helpful in many ways, seems to cause more trouble than it seems to try to cure. Take, for instance, me. I am diabetic, and because of this diagnosis and the fact that my body hates me, I am constantly connected to a machine that decides whether or not I am healthy. I am on a pump that has the power to make me incredibly sick or incredibly unstable or even in a coma. This very machine has made me very sick because it has malfunctioned or completely broken or just decided to make its own decisions. Although it was built to make my life a whole lot easier, it has made my life harder in some respects. I feel that this article makes me incredibly bored because it talks too much about the specific aspects of pieces of technology and strays too far away from the point that was made in the beginning paragraph. Another aspect that makes technology, mainly the internet, seem like it stems off of past ideas in a simpler and easily accessible object is the article of the History of the WWW.
This article is very interesting to me because I never would have thought the first references to the World Wide Web dated back into the 60’s, and rather I would have thought that the first indications that the future would hold some sort of system that can readily show related topics at first glance is that of the Dewy Decimal System. I feel that many people can easily relate this system with that of the WWW because a search for a certain word using google or another search engine, one can easily see related topics, just like if one was to consult the Dewy Decimal System. But another valid point to ournecessity of the internet is that most people, if they even know what the Dewy Decimal System is, they do not know how to use it anymore.