I believe that communication in modern America has gone into a downward spiral in the past 15 years or so. The main reason is that do to the sheer amount of communication, the constant connectivity, the act of communication in and of itself has been rendered totally impersonal. Now don't get me wrong, cell phones and email are very useful, but they should not be used as the basis of creating relationships. They are merely tools for upkeeping one, or for sharing facts(like the homework assignment, dates of events, etc.). I believe that a truly healthy relationship must be formed through personal contact, if it is to survive when contact is not available. I think that if the all the cell phones and Internet went down for two months, at least of the relationships(And I don't mean romantic, just relationships in general) of the youth of America would collapse. In essence, I think that to forge and maintain a meaningful relationship with someone, you need to see them. Not to mention the added dimensions communication takes on(tone, body language, expression) when people are physically in the same place. In brief I think that as a society we are forgetting how to create meaningful relationships, and the worst is yet to come. Sadly, it's only a symptom of the fact that the love of Christ is not in every one's lives, which is the basis for all real relationships. And that's what I think about modern communication.(I really only hit the tip of the iceberg. I'm definitely going to work this out in further detail now, and write an essay.)
-End Transmission
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hmmm....this is like my evil plan to take over the world.....
Care to elaborate, James?
I sort of agree, Dominic.
But it's a poor excuse for never blogging.
Technology itself is not the problem: the problem is how the technology is used. Modern communications could be good for relationships if used properly. For instance, cell phones and e-mail allowed me to talk with my friends here in Flag when I was in Houston for the weekend. The Internet allows James and Thom to comment on your random thoughts despite being 200 miles away.
However, people have used the ease of communication, not to deepen and strengthen relationships, but to make more and more "friends", each one shallow and superficial. People might have hundreds and hundreds of friends on facebook, numbers on their cell phones, or e-mail addresses in their contacts, but when they really need a friend, there's nobody to turn to. That is the tragedy of modern relationships. (This also means that many moderns look back on close friendships from the past, such as David & Jonathan, and say, "they must have been gay".)
[Thom:Care to elaborate, James?]
No.
You might steal my plans.
my...blueprints...
I am creating an army of WALL-E like robots....with guns.
As Clifford Stoll (author of "The Cuckoo's Egg") once put it, what's the big deal with virtual reality when we have real reality all around us?
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