For this blog, summarize your reactions to the videos. Then please provide some of your thoughts and feelings on this sentiment: Are we tuning out the physical world? Are we moving closer and closer to living digitally? What are the benefits and drawbacks of living in a digital world?
When I was watching both of the sixth sense videos I was wondering, "so where is this amazing technology since it has been almost 3 years." I grew up in a household that did not have a computer with internet access until I was a junior in high school and needed it for school. I didn't have exting on my phone until college, and when I go home to visit the highest degree of technology in my parents house is the 32" Sony TV. The world I grew up in is going to be far different from the world that my nieces and nephews are growing up in, and I can't even imagine what will be out in the world in the next ten years when I will most likely be having a family of my own.
The world is moving to be more and more digital and there are some amazing advanteges and priviledges that come along with this digital era. Ever since the invention of the smart phone, we no longer have to sit and wonder what that person's name was in that one movie, or what is the capital of that one country. We can simply whip out a smart phone and google it. When it comes to sharing information or needing information this technology has become greatly appropriate, but I do wonder if this digital world is moving too fast. Even from the differences I have seen when my niece (8) is on the computer and completely shuts me out, or when she are playing on my sister's Ipad, the digital is keeping her from living in the physical.
While we will continue to keep inventing and producing, I believe that we need to start trying to live in the moment of the physical real world. The digital is amazing but it should just be used for the necesity of information sharing and receiving and to make our lives easier. We need to make a concentrated effort to live physically whenever possible.
