Blog 5

As a kid, I remember always having to go to the library be it the school or public to get a book to read or having to go to the store to get pen and paper in order to turn in an essay or project. Back then it was all about physically turning in your work. Now a days, like at WSU, most things are online. Turning a piece of work in has become more and more digital as time has passed and the things we used to see in our past are slowly fading. That's not to say that I don't enjoy the technologies and advancements that we have today. I am surely grateful that I don't have to lug around a bulky CD player in my back pocket anymore and instead have replaced it with either an IPod or simply my phone although it was the more simple technologies that made the experience of listening to music or even reading a more personal and deeper experience. I would still choose to read a regular old book than a digitized version on a Kindle although the advantage to these technologies now have greatly increased the capacity of what we can have on our person at a given time. So, I guess there are both positive and negative sides to moving into a digital age. My parents used to tell me that if you physically write something down on paper it is easier to remember that information later and I actually found that to be somewhat true. For this reason, I am somewhat concerned for future generations of children that are being brought up in the digital age. Not because they will miss out on the simplicity of a CD player but because they will more than likely move away from physically writing things down and memory will be less important.