I completely relate to the lifestyle pieced together by dozens of students in the video. It's another blurb, another shock-value statement type video, but one that begs the question: To What End? If this is how technology has changed our lives as students even in the last 10 years, what's in store for the next 10? Are these changes making us dumber, lazier, more ignorant, less aware of ourselves? How bad is it? How much worse can it, or will it get? Heck, is it even bad, or is that a moot point?
When I consider these things, I usually try to convince myself that it depends on personal experience, and depends on what each person does that they find fulfilling. Maybe I spend more time on the computer or watching TV than the average person, or maybe I spend less time, I'm not even sure. Still, I feel like I'm currently at a good balance of how I use technology to maximize my life.
But then... how do I know what's good for me? And regardless, what are the implications to me if others abuse these thoughts to the level implied by the video?
Questions....
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