Obsolescence of Thought

The technology of today makes it so easy to sit back and aimlessly surf the internet or watch television for hours without ever really having to put a thought into it.  I won’t deny having done this, and not many people can.  In today’s world, we are so surrounded with technology that it would be impossible to not engage in some type at some point.  Children of today’s school also have the option with the technology we have to let the internet and people’s posts on the internet completely think for them.  Why would they want to do that, though?  Are they lazy? Are the children of the upcoming generations losing the ability to think for themselves and really learn something in school?  What will happen in twenty to thirty years when they’re the ones running the nation?  Will it really be technology running the nation through them?

 

I found this picture on Pinterest.com.  A girl I graduated with had pinned this, and although I can see the humor in it because so many of us fell back on things like Google, Wikipedia, and copy and paste, hopefully everyone didn’t completely rely on these things to get their educations.  Technology has its advantages, but if people are really relying on it to get through school, then we have a serious issue.  People aren’t picking up books because they can just go to the movies.  People aren’t thinking for themselves because they can just go online and find what someone else thinks and use it for their own thoughts.  People aren’t using libraries to find important information because they can just use Google search to find it.  Technology obsoletes these types of things and many more, and it is causing the technological generations to stop thinking for themselves. 

I feel that in school people are learning more so how to reword someone else’s words as to not have plagiarized than to think for themselves and create their own personal, thought out response.  I hope that this isn’t true for everyone because otherwise thinking of what our world will come to is a scary thought.  The Hypodermic Needle Model might start to become a reality.  People need to be taught how important thinking for themselves really is and how amazing it can be.  Teachers need to be persistent in finding questions that can’t be looked up on Google and that make people learn how to think for themselves and create a well rounded answer otherwise, as I said, our future is a scary thought.