Final exam

Frame one

---The World is constantly changing or “progressing” as Geoffrey Meredith would say. I can agree with the vast changes around us and as we progress more in technologies the more we do not have to think for our selves. Why would we need to think so hard or even work hard when we have so many resources at our finger tips? As a the United states we have so many different forms of technologies that even reading as become a challenge in our educational system and work places. Geoffrey Meredith views our exceedingly growing population “illiterate” as we become aware of the knowledge and worldly inventions around us.
--- The phones, computers, cars, music, and more inventions becoming so advanced that as a human population we are actually becoming more uneducated. For example: when America was just discovering education and school systems the human population was ambitious. Very well educated in reading, writing, arithmetic, and they were eager to learn. Meredith states “Remember, the baby- boomer cohort is not only the best educated cohort in history-it likely the best educated that ever will be.” I believe he is saying that in the past when they had very little and books were the equivalent to technology they were educated and well rounded intelligent people. Now in the new millennium we are so advanced in making our selves happy, that we don’t have to work to figure things out there already figured out for us (almost like people thinking for us). I see in my own life that TV and games take up so much time and energy that I don’t feel like I have to really think or do anything for myself. I wish that I would have forced myself to become more self motivated and as Americans we should strive to become those self intelligent people. We should not allow people to think for us or to create more unnecessary technology that will stop the creative flow that as humans we have and should use.
---I suggest that we spend more time practicing how to let go of things like the computer .write on our own and correct our own work instead of letting the programs like Microsoft do it for us. Taking step like this will put motivation and curiosity back in our human existence. Meredith said “ this why the most recent versions of Microsoft’s word program includes not just spelling checkers but subroutines that suggest and correct syntax, grammar, and even paragraph structure. And clearly these functions are needed.” I disagree I believe we can break away from our lazy patterns and not give into what is easiest for us. I know where Geoffrey Meredith is coming from, but we should not use our illiterate ways as an excuse to take short cuts. Solution: start breaking away from lazy habits, and as a society we should consider new ways to educated people, because if we stay in our old ways and continue spoiling generations after generation s then our efforts to be the ambitious people we once were our society will be become nothing more than a zone of self destruction.
--- Meredith view this problem as inevitable and in some since he is right and I agree that people are becoming more and more illiterate as technology evolves, but I believe you can change and evolve better. People can change their behaviors and it takes just one to decide that as a people we are better than what our now and day inventions throw at us. In stead of as Meredith would say “the demise of writing” I say we can change that to the revolution of writing. We as a generation can change our demise into our success and make it a turning point for America and even the world.