internet has brought to culture or everyday life?
Access to information. I think about what my life would be like if I couldn't look up the definition of a word on my smart phone (I have a weird obsession with looking up definitions to new words and words I already know the meaning of). We have the world in our actual hand. I remember in middle school one of my teachers made us write an entire paper using only information from the encyclopedias in the library. How limiting is that? I could open Google right now and type "kennedy assassination" and I would get millions of pages of information on it. Not all of that information would be accurate but I could easily figure out which pages were accurate. (Although, history isn't really 100% accurate anyway because we only get certain perspectives and how different would our history books look if we had many different perspectives? We won't get into that.)
Contrarily, what do you feel is the biggest new cultural/social problem that has come
with the internet?
Ohhh, the problems we have. Technology has made us lazy and very, very impatient. My phone dies and I have no way of looking up the thing I wanted to look up and now I'm frustrated. I'm in an area where these spotty service and that spinning dial at the top of my phone goes around and around for what seems like three hours but in reality it's three seconds. I get so frustrated with technology when it doesn't work as fast as my mind does. Shouldn't that be a thing? We're in the twenty first century. We should have speeds as fast as the mind by now.
I am the same way with my phone, isn't it sad how much we rely on our phones? I go to Lake Powell every summer with my family and it is so nice to get away from cell service for a few days. As soon as we pull of the lake though we are all glued to our phones trying to get caught up. It's kind of embarrassing. haha.
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