Taylor argues that, ““In the past the man has been first,” he declared; “in the future the system must be first.” Just take a look at this quote. It seems all wrong. I understand that productivity enhancement is a primary goal for people of the technological fields, but I don’t believe it needs to be taken this far.
The thing with these companies is that they are only focused on one thing. That thing is productivity. But why is it productivity? It’s productivity just to enhance their profits. Therefore, the information that they provide their consumers with is not all faithful. What people don’t realize is that the internet and all the “factual” sites out there are not completely reliable. I mean just look at Wikipedia for example. Anyone can modify that site. And yet, we take it as if it is pure and accurate information.
Okay, so I mean this is kind of bound to happen. Every company does what they have to do to get where they need to get. I mean that’s just the mechanics of business. I’m not scolding the people who created this. Rather, I am concerned with us, the American population. We are the ones who allow this shift of power to happen. We are the ones who rely on these databases as if there is no tomorrow. Or rather I should say, as if there were no libraries. I guess what I’m trying to get across is that there are other access points to information out there, but we don’t use them. I believe that the reason we don’t use them is purely because we Americans are rather lazy. We can’t take the extra five minutes to go to a library and get more faithful and accurate information. Besides, Google and Wikipedia are so much more convenient. Just type in one phrase and all of your information pops up. Anyways, we rely on these internet data bases that may or may not give us reliant information. So therefore yes, I do agree with what Carr said.
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Very true Al, haha I always comment yours I love your little thoughts they're so.. Different from mine. I like getting more than one perspective. Anyways, yeah I do suggest the same thing, go to a library and do it the manual labor sort of way. Our technological basis of a society now was built upon the foundation of Google, for the most part. And yes, the information we are obtaining from these sites is not always faithful because yeah they are looking from a productive perspective, not caring if what they put out there is accurate, faithful, or truthful. Books are not like that, people can't as easilky mmanipulate books and change the meanings and such. Great job Al :) love ya girl
ReplyDeleteHey Girl. You make some very good points in your blog post. And in a away I do agree with what you said. It is the readers' fault for actually using the sites like Wikipedia and Google. If people don't want to be made "stupid" by using the internet, but my solution is: Duh, don't use the internet. I like how you pointed out that there are other access points, like .ibraries. I also agree that we should back pedal, and instead of establishing new types of technology and new access points to information we should be using old access points that are just as good, and force us to take action and not be so lazy. Wooh, thanks for letting me get that out, ha ha. Good job, we had like the same idea, just a different way of saying it.
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