Saturday, April 28, 2012

A Response to "Digital Nation"

This is a response to a video called "Digital Nation" It's very digital.


Yet another video I've seen a couple of times. Although I do like the guy narrating the video, so it's always pleasant enough to watch. This is basically the same as the other video, it even comments on it and brings in clips of it from time to time, further proving his point of the digital age is growing larger and larger with every passing year, becoming a huge, unified digital nation that will soon envelope the entire world.

The narrator repeatedly switches between the good and the bad of the coming digital nation, talking about how our kids will be changed and how that could be good or bad depending on how we as future parents handle them, how our relationships with each other will change, seeing as how a lot of us communicate mostly through electronic means, and so on.

All this rolls down to is we need to be careful about the next coming generation. We need to raise them to appreciate the technology but also teach them how to live without it. We also need to keep our distance from technology from time to time, even now. There are days where I will realize at midnight that I have been on the computer for the entirety of the day and have not left my apartment. Those days make me feel bad, physically and mentally. Even if it's doing homework or something, I do need fresh air and a walk or something and I know it. I also enjoy it as well. So in the next decade, just be careful with technology and don't let it completely envelope your life.

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