It’s a common phrase used in the 21st century:
“Just Google it and you can find out.”
People want to know their answers right away. Maybe that’s fine if you can’t remember the 17th President of the United States, or you can’t remember how old Bill Gates was when he created his first piece of software, but sometimes it goes just a little bit overboard. I find more and more teenagers want to know the results of everything they do immediately. They want their exam results immediately. They want their projects graded immediately. If they don’t get the result instantaneously, they get angry and, clearly, impatient.
For me, I love the internet. It gives us answers so we don’t have to have a question sitting in the back of our mind for hours. But that kind of instant gratification shouldn’t be transferred to everything. Also, what happens when we don’t have the internet readily available? We need to re-train ourselves to be without the internet every once in a while. We don’t have to have Facebook right in our hands. We need to learn how to have patience. At this rate, we will eventually have no patience at all that we will totally disregard speed limits or any other speed precautions.
Just imagine this: ”I don’t have enough time to put on my seat belt.” ”I don’t have time to eat, that takes too long.” ”You actually take the time to choose what clothes you want to wear?”
From a quick perspective, there is no way of slowing this evolution of humanity. The internet grows every day, with more and more people accessing it every day. In a way, I wish I could stop the One Laptop per Child project, because I feel the children would be able to learn in a better way than using a computer. Sure, it has its advantages. But technology causes nations to lose their culture. C’mon, isn’t everyone afraid of Americanization?
-ThatOneGuy