How can one call an idea like the internet a bad thing? But how can someone call an idea that enables people of all ages to receive pornography within seconds a good thing or even a great thing? What about illegal file sharing/downloading? How affective and efficient is the email system and what would the world be like without it after my generation has known nothing but an age of its existence? Could businesses function now days without the idea of websites and online advertising? Would some, like the music industry, want to? There are so many questions that attack one another on both sides of the spectrum. The internet is a bad thing, a good thing, and a great thing all at once.
1. What is the problem to which this technology is the solution?
2. Which people and what institutions might be most seriously harmed by a technological solution?
3. What new problems might be created because we have solved this problem?
4. What sort of people and institutions might acquire special economic and political power because of technological change?
Neil Postman asks these questions in order to get us to think.
To think if we really need these new communication technologies like the internet.
To have the ability to fight the bad, and find the good.
To help people, in my opinion, succeed in a world that has been devoured by technology, without the use of technology.
To live truthfully and in a way that God wants us to.
The internet has too many bad things, good things, and great things about it that would take me forever to tell and I still wouldn't get them all. It's just important that you use the internet and other communication technologies only in ways that would be pleasing to God and that you know when to stay away from the bad.
The internet.... it's about personal judgment. And with good personal judgment, the internet is a great thing.
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