Sunday, September 23, 2012
Who needs newspaper anymore? It's all in your house.
Civilization has depended on local or worldly news brought to them to keep in touch with events happening during their lives. Seems like people become increasingly dependent on such news as newer ways of it being delivered presents itself. From stone slabs, to newspapers, to megaphones, to radio, to television, to computers; we have less and less reason to even walk out of our own bedrooms in hopes for the media to tell us what is going on in our lives. Soon, we may not even have any need for our own limbs. But while news can now be given to us through online media, people now have the ability to freely respond to it as though they are standing side by side by the ones printing the news on that printed paper. Although, it also enables people to get carried away that much more as well. It is very easy to lose control when your eyes become glued to the lightly lit screen in front of you. Computerized media has its ways of mesmerizing people.
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I have heard people complain that there is too much violence, war, stupidity now than there has ever been before. I actually think our up to the second media is to blame for this view. Think of history's epic wars and stories of depravity; the burning of alexandria, the Donner party, and World War 2. These horrific events just weren't reported 2 minutes after they happened.
ReplyDeleteIt is true, eventually everything will be automated and what will we have left? The nostalgia of even reading a newspaper is rare now when everyone is carrying an iphone/kindle/ipad around glowing in front of them! Times are changing and it has a very large effect on daily lives.
ReplyDeleteI still subscribe to the newspaper. Even though by the time I sit down to read the paper most of the news I've already seen online, there's just something about physically holding the paper that appeals to me, I'm the same way with books and magazines as well.
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