Naysayers #3

My view is that the technological advancements that society has achieved to this day should benefit society, especially the younger crowd, but with a limit. Young adults and teenagers today waste way too much time on things like Facebook and Twitter.  Andrew McAfee disagrees in his article "Why the Internet is not Making us Stupid." One of his arguments is that people can express themselves online to a very large crowd, some good that does to society. His other argument, which I can agree with, is that kids who live in developed countries have access to more information than every before to expand their knowledge. McAfee, however, doesn't describe the fact that most kids DON'T use this opportunity to look up useful information but instead waste time "expressing" themselves on social media websites.

They Say #3

Didi Cece wrote an article for "The Star" called "Technology is Dumbing Down our society" in which he describes the advancement of technology from the 1950's to the present. The technological advancements are called advancements for a reason, they're suppose to make society better off in the long run. However, he makes a strong point in which he describes school lessons in which kids, from an early age, are taught to use calculators and spell-checks instead of their heads. In Cece's point of view, as well as my own, that seems to make society better off because it makes students, our future workforce, depend more on technology to get work done. Why hire a person to do math related work when I can just hire a calculator?

I really liked Sheed's about how education should be as desirable as winning. I'd add that other than the competition, winning is the most important things to athletes and it should be to non-athletes as well.