Blog Assignment #6

One source I pulled from “Technology Matters” by Nye is “How Computers Change the Way We Think” by Sherry Turkle. The title of this text basically explains its purpose in itself. Turkle has six different areas where she feels computers are changing the way we think. One is privacy; she talks about how college students are habituated to a world online, like blogging and instant messaging. This is particular interesting because I am a college student and I am using online blogging right now. Turkle feels like people don’t realize that posting things on the internet has no safe-guards and that “privacy is a right, not merely a privilege.” Nye uses this point in chapter 10 in his book. It is a good source to include in the argument that he was presenting and I think he explained it in context very well. Another area Turkle feels how computers are changing us is chat rooms. She feels that people present there selves differently online and makes it harder for people to “develop authentic selves”. Nye also uses this point in chapter 10 to show another side of view on chat rooms. One thing that I thought David E. Nye’s could have included from Turkle’s text is her view on word processing vs. thinking. I thought her view on this topic was very interesting and could enhance his argument of encapsulation.
Another text I got from the library was “The Hard Drive and Human Behavior” by John C. Dvorak. This text actually wasn’t found in David E. Nye’s book but I thought it was a good text to use for my research paper. Dvorak explains “the new philosophy of laziness” which is something I wanted my paper to really focus on. This text concentrates on how he believe that technology is forcing laziness and universal futility. Dvorak feels like these developments won’t be stopped until everything falls apart, or the end of the world.