My Out Take on the Manifesto
The past is the past and people these days make that quite clear. Before cell phones, emails, internet, spell check, and god knows what else is out there people had to check their own work, and find out information the hard way: books. Handwriting was also an issue if not legible. However the tides have turned. No one cares if you have nice handwriting and you can just type something on the computer and print it, easy as that. No one cares if you know all the dates of all the battles ever fought, although very impressive, but anyone can look it up online. And who needs to keep heavy index cards full of information, stacked in the corner collecting dust until the next time used; which my guess would be every 5 years.. Maybe. I’ve never been one to argue that the past was not more difficult, but at least they didn’t have to deal with technological glitches.
I could memorize anything if you gave me enough time, and if I was interested enough in learning it. However, I am usually not. I have the internet for that. I have Google, yahoo, and ask jeeves for that. Yes, it’s not 100% top notch information that has been checked and updated that it is so current, but then again I do not care. It gives me what I want, and I have no need to question that. I am aware that anyone can put anything on the internet, but, I have never really had a case where if the information wasn’t made up I didn’t no. And if I did, it is almost laughable in a sense that I fell for it and didn’t double check with another site. This by the way is easy. I love easy.
I have a project for school, a research project. Naturally I think alright let me go on the computer I’ll have my information in no time. But wait; reading further down the rubric I see that I need 5 book sources. So I think alright, the internet has that too. Nope not allowed she says. We need actual books. So I start, then I remember I have to do a bibliography. I enjoyed it actually; I loved knowing where I was getting my information. It took me about 5 days to get all of my information there. This brings about a point… I never knew where any of my information came from when I research online. I knew the site it came from, but never really fully understood. Makes me think. But it does not make me think enough to double check the source I get every time, I did not enjoy it that much.
Socrates: an ancient Greek thinker. Yep, found out who he was from ask jeeves. My take on what he would ask jeeves would probably be something difficult and outrages. But he would get an answer. Doesn’t everyone get an answer from the internet. It might not be the one we want, but we do not always get what we want. Sad but true. Is it not also true that if the internet would be taken away we would probably cry like babies? Not to be taken literally.
“I’ve never been one to argue that the past was not more difficult, but at least they didn’t have to deal with technological glitches.”
AMEN.
In the past people would go out to a well for water, and had to lug it back to the house to drink. These days are water comes from the refrigerator, and meals come frozen and all you have to do is put them in the microwave. Voila! For mail people would go horseback, we go online type it up click send, the repentant gets it in a matter of seconds. However, once one thing goes wrong online or the email no longer exists, it becomes craziness!
“...never knew where any of my information came from when I research online.”
One thought one has, can be put on a website, jazzed up, and made to look like someone knows what they are talking about, when in reality, they have no idea. The funny part of it all is, we believe it. I guess it’s the laziness of society these days, especially in high students who only want to get a research paper done.
“But wait; reading further down the rubric I see that I need 5 book sources.”
Oh but those dreadful book sources that make you use actual published resources from real people who we know know what they are talking about.
But how to distinguish between who knows the truth and who doesn’t? I looked up ONLINE how to prove ONLINE sites right, or wrong: http://www.2learn.ca/evaluating/evaluating.html
Even funnier than the first instance; i’m proving online sites wrong, offline.
I guess the whole internet surfing thing is ironic by itself. No matter how risky using the sites are, you and I both seem to continue to use those sites, no matter what.
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