After watching the YouTube video "The Machine is Us/ing us," I realized how much and how rapidly the internet has become such a vital part of our lives as humankind. It is actually slightly alarming to think of how dependent our culture is on technology and internet access. This title alone shows us that something we were capable of creating is now vital for the creation of every day tasks, business transactions, medical treatments, and life in general. Even though the web is a product of our intelligence and creativity, it seems like we are teaching it to have a mind of its own...and that is scary.
This new, technologically advanced web can extremely influence one who is ready to enter the workforce. For example, being technologically literate in our generation will further one's career from the very start because of the growing demand of new technologies and the ill-educated business owners of older generations. These older populations in the workforce were not given the opportunity to learn how to work with certain technologies, therefore they turn to our generation for help. Those ready to dive in to their careers have the advantage of doing extensive research on different businesses and jobs of interest, a luxury that was not possible in the past. A negative influence could possibly be caused by the most popular sites today: Facebook, MySpace, and YouTube. Questionable pictures and messages on profiles from the college years come back to haunt certain young adults when and increasing amount of corporations and businesses are checking facebook stats before hiring.
Web 2.0 has not only changed for people ready to get a job; it has changed the current workforce as a whole. New technologies have taken work to an entirely different level, with more access to information, more advertising to the global community, and more services and actions made possible only because of these machines that we've made. Is this a positive or a negative aspect of life? It depends on who you ask. I believe that every fire starts with a flame, and at the rate our world is going, every technological advance is just pouring on the gasoline. We need to go back to the pre-internet, pre-cellphone, pre-digital days and rethink what life was like. The phrase, "we will have to rethink everything" shows that as time passes, we have let our works, ideas, privacy, morals, and work ethic gradually slide down as we adjust to the next new thing.
But no one wants to rethink everything, because no one has time for that.
We'd rather a machine do our thinking for us.
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