First, there's the room you can see through the glass -- that's as our drawing room, just the same only the things go the other way. I can see all of it when I get upon a chair -- all but the bit behind the fireplace. Oh! I do so wish I could see that bit! I want so much to know whether they've a fire in the winter: you never can tell, you know, unless our fire smokes, and then smoke comes up in that room too -- but that may be only pretence, just to make it look as if they had a fire. Well then, the books are something like our books, only the words go the wrong way;
READ THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS BY LEWIS CARROLL
A NEW ENVIRONMENT CREATED BY TECHNOLOGICAL CHANGE
CHARACTERISTICS
- Increased ability to store memory - to remember things and to be reminded. (Blackberry, databases, computer memory, computer programs)
BUT
How easy is it to retrieve it?
Is there a corresponding loss of ability to simply - remember?
Is there a dependence which makes one lose one's confidence that one can remember ( in contrast - oral cultures)?
- REDUCTION OF TRADITIONAL TIME, SPACE BARRIERS
- VAST INCREASE IN THE VOLUME OF AVAILABLE RESOURCES (INFORMATION EXPLOSION)
- LIBERATION AND DEMOCRATIZATION OF RESOURCES ( e.g. archives)
BUT
ALL TECHNOLOGICAL CHANGE IS A TRADE-OFF.- NEIL POSTMAN
ADVANTAGES AND DIS-ADVANTAGES OF TECHNOLOGICAL CHANGE ARE NEVER DISTRIBUTED EVENLY AMONG THE POPULATION - NEIL POSTMAN
