The internet is scary exciting.

I am glad to have read the "Is google making us stupid?" article. The article gave me some insight into my own dealings with literature, because as a reader I have experienced some of the inability to concentrate and mind wandering Nicholas Carr writes about. I thought I had ADD, but actually the connection between internet distractions and concentration distractions began to make sense in that article.

While reading the article I thought about some of the artwork I've enjoyed over the last few years, and a lot of the art used today is very dynamic. I believe that is because artists have to work overtime to grab and hold a person's attention because our minds are over-stimulated while we surf the net that something needs to be incredibly attractive to interest us.

I cannot say whether I think use of the internet is good or bad for the future of people, but I do believe without a doubt that it has forever changed the way people work, play, and think. As the article explained, the expansions in technology in the past have worked towards progression. However, we may have already reached the brink of technological expansion and are now digging a hole for ourselves.

In my opinion, people, especially Americans, want everything to be bigger, better, and faster. Skyscrapers, lamborghini's, and the best movie graphics available. Our world has grown, quite literally and everyday people have ideas to go further. With the internet, information from humans may no longer be needed or wanted. If you wanted to know how the shrimp scampi at Liberatore's is you might find someone to ask who has been there and hope that they indeed ordered the shrimp scampi and that they have a review of it for you. Or, you could easily navigate to buzzd.com and find reviews from people who have been there and can tell you what is a tasty dish. Or better yet, go to Liberatores' website and look at pictures of the shrimp scampi all in a of couple clicks.

I think the internet is revolutionary. It's exciting and remarkably useful. However, I worry about interactions between humans and human wisdom slowly dwindling away. We no longer need to discuss life with eachother when we can do it over the internet. Even half of this class is completed without any human interaction. I don't even want to try and fathom artificial intelligence because it scares me. That could mean there might literally be no purpose for humans at all. I enjoy the internet and hope it can serve information to us without causing a drop in brain capacity. But, I do fear that I may not be able to keep up especially with trying to be a designer.