Semester 2 Blog 2

We live in a world where everything you do is judged and criticized.  Too often people will get in silly arguments over difference of opinions.  One of Mondello's claims many people may disagree with is that the next generation to come will be isolated because of the lack of CD albums, paper back books, and old school items.  Mondello states in his article titled Our Media, Ourselves: Are we headed For a Matrix? that without these things, life will have no value.  Too frequently people will get caught up in the past and the history, and not focus on what new inventions we all have been gifted with.  New technology is what shapes and changes the way we all live and learn together.  One of Mondello's points he made in this article, was "Won't the next generation be isolated without them-cut off like Vashti, staring at screens all day?"  This can be easily argued that old ways will not be isolated, but new ways and new ideas will be considered as well.  The more renovations and ideas that are introduced to our world, the more advanced we will be as a whole.  This claim can competently be disagreed with because the discovery of new ideas and new products are invented to improve something that already exists, or improve our standards of living.  Without the invention and renovations of things that already exist, our world would always stay the same and the theory of evolution would not exist.  Society easily gets lost in comparing the good with the bad.  New inventions and new technologies are only taken on if society accepts them and moves forward with them.  As stated in The Machine Stops, E.M Forster writes, "I have called you before, mother, but you were always busy or isolated.  I have something particular to say.  What is it, dearest boy? Be quick.  Why could you not send it by pneumatic post?"  This quote clearly shows the way people receive information and how they have taken on a new way of communication through something more advanced, technology.  This is why Mondello’s claim can easily be disagreed with because the generations to come will not be isolated from the world, they will just be more advanced than previous generations.  The world has come a long way since the beginning of time, and its all thanks to new concepts and new products.  The next point to address regarding this claim is that new electronic components have benefited the world greatly.  Without the invention of medical appliances, and medicines, our average life span would be the same as it was 85 years ago.  More people need to step back and learn to acquire the advancements and changes that our world is naturally supposed to go through.  Just like humans grow and develop, our world does too.  In conclusion, Mondello’s claim about the isolation of future generations is effectively disagreeable to the point that computers and music players have not taken the place of paper books or records, but instead they have just been renovated and progressed to accommodate the changes that happen to our world every single day.