Today’s world of letters and symbols that make up the languages we communicate with in our everyday lives. Most of the Digital Natives today know what everyone is and every acronym made up. But they have failed in learning the most important of all the languages ever put on a computer. The:is what represents all those letters and symbols that we use so much. Every letter in the alphabet can be represented with the correct combination of “1 and 0”.
We as a society use this concept every day in almost every aspect of our lives. We surf the web, talk on the phone, and share digital media. We do this all day long; even in a class where we are suppose to be paying attention to the teacher. The ease of use that computers and cell phones have made communicating from one person to another person has been felt in all classrooms around the world. Students have out their computer and claim to be taking notes but soon as the teacher goes away they switch pages and pull up games, live chats, or other forms of distractions.
To learn how to use a computer or cell phone does not take a whole lot of effort, my 3 year old nephew knows how to work my sister’s cell phone and computer better than most. But where all of us have failed is learning how they work, their communications. We as a society have been brought up in a world where everything is just a mouse click away. This mouse click though has a lot of secondary task assigned to it that the user never will see. Every time you click your mouse and open a new screen, you are telling the computer to access its memory and open a certain file. This is millions and millions more of 1’s and 0’s arranged perfectly to perform a specific task. This allows us to communicate our ideas to the world, a simple arrangement of numbers, which only a few have learned.
The question I have is this, if you had to type everything you said out with the numbers 1 and 0, would you still communicate as much as you do now? Would people leave their computers for a pen and piece of paper? How long would it take for people to learn and respect their computers for all of what they do and not just call it junk?
Thats a really good point, i've never even thought to learn it really. Not only that but i don't know many people that have taken the time to sit down and learn it. But with that same argument are there that many people who need to? I mean i've gotten on just fine without knowing it but maybe I could have done more if I had. Have you seen it beneficial in your life?
ReplyDeleteThis blows my mind. I've never understood how language and especially complex functions can be reduced to 0's and 1's. If I had to sort through all of that, I would absolutely not mess with it. I'm glad people did so that we could advance, but technology is useful because it's convenient. There's a level of something being cool, but if it's too much to work with, it won't catch on.
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