American Values

"write here, write now."

I think the symbol that best embodies " Just Add Water" Is the recycling symbol. Because not only does this image symbolize being environmentally conscious it also means to reuse. Taking the old and making it new. Which is exactly what Ray does with Trona. He took the desolate town and returned it to its Glory. It shows the cycle of civilization and life. There are always depression and golden ages and nothing can last forever.

The small subject of this movie wold have to be the tap water. It's importance in their lives is essential to the plot and makes Ray finally act out a bit to light the fuse for the big explosion.

How are TWN and Just Add Water the same?

Off the top of my head the connections between them seem few and far between.

The depression happening in Trona is almost equivalent to Olivia's perpetual state of mourning. When the Count tries something new...sending a new page (who happens to be attractive) to her everything changes. Just as with Ray and the departure Charline.

Feste is like the Danny Devito character he plays an important role in the world of the play itself but is also important to the audiences presepctive. He is shorter then everyone making him physically commical and has a stripper for a wife making making his character almost somehing in the realm of slapstick.

Another parallel is Sir Toby and his crew. Sir toby is like Rays neighbor- always drunk. Until the end where he proves to be useful and marries Maria. And Ray's neighbor is going to become a Father both talking on responsibilities never given to them before.

The Ethics of Climate Change

In " The Ethics of Climate Change." John Broome shows the side of climate change many of us forget about. The ethical decision behind it. It is said that is it good to live in the present, but in this case is it better to live in the future? We are so concerned with living comfortably now, that our resources have basically been used up. Leaving the people of our world community in 50 or 40 years with nothing to sustain them.
So how do we fix this? Either we find unlimted resources for our future or stop the way we live and slow down Humanity's suicide. But Change takes unity. Change takes time. And Change takes money. All these things we don't have and don't have time for. We need to act now and act quick so our future can sustain itself, so the endless battle of moratality can be sustained.

The way I feel about blogging...

There are many things I feel about blogging; positive feelings don't generally fall into that category.

I'll admit that I have a personal bias. And in the past have had extremely negative experiences with online forums. But every time a teacher has assigned a forum they became a torturous daily exercise, that I would never look forward to.

Okay I admit being able to put your work online is useful in a lot of different ways... sometimes. The argument for online blogging for classes is always something along the lines of

" You don't waste paper."
"It easier to share information with your classmates and the world!"
"It's fun."
"ETC."

We all know what were supposed to get from it, but do actually ever?
For me the answer is simply no.
People could blog their hearts out and half of the time your classmates who should be reading your post lose interest a quarter of the way down the page.
Most people have stopped reading by now or are thinking about stopping.

And its not because the majority is unmotivated, or unable to excel in a learning environment, or turn their assignments in on time, it's just being online seems to induce this behavior. It relates all the way back to one of the first articles we read in class, "Is Google Making Us Stupid" by Nicholas Carr. Our mind capacity to sit with something and concentrate on it for a long period of time has been completely diminished.

Because this blog is so physically unattached from class, it so easy to forget about. It's just another website that we will try and remember to look at, after going on facebook, twitter, myspace, livejournal, looking at the weather for the next week, checking the new york times website, reading your horoscopes from three different websites, watching at least 25 pointless videos on you tube, while vid chatting with your two best friends, down loading the hit song of the day, listening to the hit song of the day, going back on facebook to look at pictures of your x-best friend's boyfriend's sister's birthday party, tweet about your boredom, facebook stalk more people, glance over your email, Then you start stumbling, and once you start stumbling you never stop. You stumble from website to website until you find something interesting to share with your friends. Go back on facebook to post on their wall, tweet again about something funny you found, and repeat.

I realize that freedom of speech is a right every single person has. But sometimes on forums or blogs people take it one step to far. Even in an academic situation there is always one person who is irresponsible with their words, creating confrontational situations that are completely virtual. These attacks can either be indirect or direct. It is going back to Derrida's fear of writing, he fears peoples reactions. People on blogs though seem to use the computer as a mask. They can say what they want no matter how offensive or malicious and be fine with it because they are not being physically confronted.

I am not saying I think the internet is stupid or blogging is a bad thing.
I actually think blogging to about your own personal opinions, or writing about your passions is really awesome. I personally enjoy reading some of these blogs.

As for Blogs and forums in a classroom setting, for me, definitely has more cons than pros.
Blogs in the classroom, is like the idea of a democratic communist nation. Only in theory does it work the way it should. But due to human nature, when it is put into action immediately the chance of equality, balance, and order that government should provide is lost.

Global Warming: The Sasquatch of our Society

"We are in an era of creative destruction."

Big Foot by Michael Specter

Are we really though? This statement has been made and now there is no going back on it. It has been stated, recorded, and published. And the only thing this statement did for me was induce insane fear. I'm not afraid of the truth, I am just afraid it is true. If everything we do, and everything we make produces CO2 then no matter what we will eventually induce our own demise. Is that what he means by creative destruction? How can you destroy creation, when creation is all about... well creating? Is there going to be a time when no one is creating anything and we are stuck in a mundane earth. A limbo between hitting rock bottom and being in a golden age.

Global warming is something that is constantly talked about. And I've heard many people joke about it, I have even joked about it. But discussing it seriously it is no laughing matter. It's the depressing truth of how the life that the earth created is now destroying it. It's like all human beings have an Oedipus complex, and mother nature is the parent of the same sex we wish to exclude... or murder. After reading this article I was afraid to move, let alone breathe, fearing that I would make my already enormous footprint even larger. Everyone tries to be conscious, well most people. But half the time none of us know even where to begin. We recycle, only to discover the places our plastic bottles are going are admitting toxins that are actually speeding the rate of global warming. And then we are stuck, in this cycle, that no one can seem to break.

What, Are, Why or Why Not?

A writer can be many things.
And when thinking about writing the first thing that comes to mind is an artist, usually.
I'm not sure I would consider the man who writes the obituaries for the sunday paper an artist. Or an accident report from your insurance company.

Being a "writer" is extremely specific art, and this art has many sub categories: Novels, poem, short stories, fiction, non-fiction....etc.

Overall a writer is a person who uses there experiences, imagination, opinion, and or any other personal bias to try and capture and persuade an audience of a specific nature, through the use of the written language. Which is terrifically different from the spoken language.

Am I a writer? I like to pretend sometimes. I used to write short stories. Once in 5th grade I decided to start writing a novel. So I guess I would consider myself part writer, but I am so many other things. Creative ways to express yourself are endless.

Hi, my name is ______________. Welcome to the writing center!

The writing center for me was quite the experience. I barely made it to my appointment that day because of the weather. It was a hurricane outside and I could barely walk with out being smacked in a different direction by the wind and rain. As I tried to save my computer from any water damage, I moved as quickly as my body would allow me. When I finally reached the writing center, I bustled in, huffying and puffing, and completely drenched. I had manage to salvage my laptop, all my books however weren't quite as lucky.

The tutor who helped was junior or senior, male, and very kind. I will leave him nameless for his privacy (and also because I wouldn't be able to remember his name or his face if you payed me). For this reason lets just call him Jake.

We sat down with my laptop and because I was a little disorganized he seemed to be also. I hadn't printed out a copy, but it didn't seem to matter we just used my computer( which did I mention was low on battery?).

Despite my misfortunate given circumstances Jake was quite helpful. We went over my opening paragraph and made it completely solid, and then continued on to the rest of my paper. The only thing that I would have to complain about is that he was really inattentive. If he didn't need to pay attention to me at that moment in time, you could bet he was looking at his computer or staring at his watch, or out the window.

Our hour had passed and we were about half way done. It annoyed me that half way through mid sentence he cut me off to say that our time was up. I asked Jake if he had another appointment, he hesitated and said "Yeah, yeah, yeah.". My computer was going to die anyway but he really couldn't wait to get rid of me. As I packed up my computer put my rain jacket back on and got myself together to face the ridiculous weather that was still outside. I noticed he had gone back to playing a video game on his computer. I check my phone: 1:15... another appointment really? Come on Jake! Help a girl in need, a girl who's paper was in need of serious help. Wasn't it his job to help me? Wasn't he getting paid to sit there and help me?

It would seem that didn't matter. Overall he was very helpful, but there were a couple of things that could have been adjusted to make my experience better and have better results from going.

I tied the belt on my jacket and gave one more " Jake do your job and tell me you wouldn't mind helping me for another ten minutes" look at him. No response.
I left, got luch, and sat there pondering how someone grades a paper that doesn't seem complete.
Dammit Jake -_____-

Just Add Water

JUST ADD WATER!

So much is hidden behind this phrase.
Every infomercial, ever, comes to mind....
" It's a plane that flies it's self... all you have to do is just add water!"
Well not exactly but you get the idea. Condensed orange juice, chia pets, just everything unnatural. Adding water creates a chemical reaction and makes things... well react.
But there are so many meaning behind that phrase in and out of context. Really human life is almost like that. Without water we die. The body can survive with out water up to three days. The body can survive up to forty days with out food. Without water we are dead.
Just add water.
Just hydrate yourself.
Just make sure you can function.
Just live.

If a tree falls in the forest does anyone hear it?

I guess that is kind of the same thing? Well not really but almost .... it's a different sense, I suppose.

"A new way of understanding an already powerful theory is beginning to take shape, one that could change the way we understand the world around us. Do we create what we observe through the act of observation?"(Roebke pg. 230)

That question really gets me, especially since I really don't understand the philosophy behind it. Solipsism is the philosophical theory that self is all that you know to exist(Webster dictionary)...???

WHAT!!?

That barely makes any sense... well I guess it does, kind of?

Philosophy drives me crazy. Does that mean everything behind my back right now is just blank space an entire universe undiscovered and unused by us because we just haven't created anything there?

Observation I believe is key to learning, but creating? In art observation is key to learning and creating your art. But does the same hold true for the world? Do we observe and then create the world surrounding us. Sure there are tons of theories are using your "energy" to attract opportunities, people. good health, and so on. Even science falls back into spirituality sometimes. And this really seems to be on the border line for me at least.


Roebke's arguement is unclear to me still. And I think in a way his conclusion is passive, leaving the reader unstatisfied. I do however really enjoy the end when he ask a question Dr. Zeilinger cannot answer, and a week later there is a job posting for a collaborative philosopher.

Faustian sold his soul to the devil... Have we?

Limitless— that is what has seemed to become the staple of our society according to Berry. Berry directly calls out our society and almost everyone living in it on their wasteful and greedy way of life. When I first read this I tried to dismiss Berry’s view of our country. But not even a quarter of the way through article, not only could I not dismiss his views, I had to accept that they true. Not only true, but shamefully I am living them. We all are though when it comes down to it.

Berry talks about the industrial revolution, and how this is where the idea of a limitless economy started. This is why we live this way, the way we live calls for limitlessness on every aspect . Berry talked about a summit in Louisville Kentucky. This summit was supposed to deal with the problems of fossil fuels and our energy sources. The solutions presented were not solutions at all, but just temporary replacements for our usable and non-refundable sources.

Limitless is not just present in things like our economy. Everyday everywhere you go people want everything for nothing. Even a trip to get ice cream becomes a production. Over 20 flavors over 50 topping, and an endless way of having it served. The choices have become over whelming. Berry is just yelling out for us to wake up and simplify our lifestyle again. Because in reality its not as hard as it seems.

Waste and Greed. Greed and Waste. WasteandGreed

The image of waste fills my mind with mountains of garbage. Just an overwhelming mass of people's trash. Broken computer screens, unwanted toys, rotting food, clothing never worn, shoes missing there match, and just an excess amount of matter. A matter that could have been saved and recycled, but instead was destroyed and made unusable.

Greed and Waste are close in character. Greed in my mind is matter wasted. The foundation of greed comes from waste. We are too greedy to share so we dispose of whatever we can't handle. It is a person that sits there- on their mountain- and they create more, they hoard more things, and eventually it is all wasted.

These two cohorts further the cycle of taking, never giving back, destroying community, simpleness, and just causing destruction.

Derrida's afraid of writing... I mean he writes and all, but still he's afraid of writing.

Jacques Derrida: author, philosopher, speaker.
He is many things, but his one skill that accounts for much of his success, he claims to fear. Why is that? Derrida's fear of writing is something that not is not uncommon. I believe this fear doesn't come from the writing itself, but the fear of human reaction. Every person, every individual judges and reacts to all of other peoples actions. Its natural and unavoidable because of different opinions, different ways of life, and just different people. He uses writing to face his fears, he uses it to venture forward into the unknown of opinions and confrontations.

I have only once really experienced fear after writing. It was a rhetorical analysis of the Bad Romance music video. When I picked Lady Gaga as my topic I knew right away it would be controversial, but not until after the paper was printed and handed in did I start feeling the anxiety build up in my body. My entire paper was about women and their sexuality. What I had experienced in the past at school was these kinds of topics were not discussed and were deemed inappropriate. The Irish catholic girl inside of me became nervous at what my professor would do. I was afraid she would think of me in a negative light and grade my paper poorly because of the blunt topic I was addressing. Later after receiving an A on my paper, I realized that- yes- the subject was controversial but I wasn't being graded on being appropriate.

Derrida uses language as his vehicle to propel his ideas forward. He fears the back lash but never takes back anything he publishes. Its a constant battle between himself. Believing in what he is writing in and fearing the reaction of what he believes.

Hass, Jones, and language.

“Hubris at Zunzal” by Rodney Jones and “The Problem of Describing Trees” address the topic of language. The written language— when you really think about it— is a very strange concept.

In Hass’s poem he sneakily makes his argument by exploiting people who try and make language deeper, prettier, and more meaningful. When in actuality they just stomp on all of those things, making language loose it simplistic beauty.

In Rodney’s poem he commends the written language for being created without it our thoughts, quite literally would be washed away and irretrievable. “ No image like the image of language.” This quote embodies the need and beauty of descriptive language. These poems both center around language. And prove two different points. Balancing out the two extremes. Without it we are lost, with it we are over zealous with its use and abuse its simplistic nature by making it overly complicated.

The Conversation of Mankind

Collaborative Learning and the "Conversation of Mankind"
by Kenneth A. Bruffee

"Education is not a process of assimiliating "the truth" but, as Rorty has put it, a process of learning to "take a hand in what is going on" by joining the conversation of mankind."
-Kenneth A. Bruffee

I chose this quote to start because I feel it really embodies the meaning of the entire piece. Collaborative learning is a technique that we've all been experiencing since pre-school. Personally, I have had really positive experiences, but I also have had disastrous results. Reading Bruffee essay made me consciously recognize that all the peer editing/grading, group projects, and class feed back these past years have been a type of learning technique. I agree, through collaborative learning I have gained a lot of knowledge, a lot faster. Knowledge communities are helpful to the individual’s growth. After all I believe that communities are the reason for individual success.

However a failed community or a failed attempt at using collaborative learning can cause destruction. I can think back to many of my experiences where I was put into a group and told to answer an ambiguous question. The results came out unanimously: all of the groups didn’t answer the question. Or it was not exactly what the teacher was hoping the results would be. So how do you guarantee the success of knowledge communities? I think a lot of it has to do with the individuals themselves. If the individuals aren’t committed or part of different knowledge communities it cause issues.

“Without successful teachers the community will die when it’s current members die, and knowledge as assented to by that community will cease to exist.” So how do teachers fit into this technique? Bruffree claims that teachers are one of the largest knowledge communities. In this learning technique the only issue is who has authority. Where does the sole power lie? I think that power or authority goes to the community or even individual who is part of more Knowledge communities than the average person. Or the person with power could be the expert of one thing .

Data from the Shakespeare Concordance: Music

Music is obviously a constant theme through out Twelfth Night. Even the name of the main character " Viola" is spelt the same way as the instrument the viola. Music, songs, tunes..ect. are constantly being brought up in the text, there are always songs. The play itself starts with music, and ends with a song. Shakespeare relates music to passion, and extremely strong emotion.
In Act I.i, the famous opening monologue Duke Orsino says
"If music be the food of love, play on;
Give me excess of it, that, surfeiting,
The appetite may sicken and so die."
Orsino wants so much of it that he can't take it anymore, he wants to vomit from the excess of it. Music to these characters is something that expresses more emotion then the need for excess love.

All the fools songs, are meloncholoy and compelelty shift the play. For example his last song "For the rain, it raineth everyday."

Brings the audience back to reality, and tells them that basically its time for them all to go back reality, to the pain that everyone has to experience.

In a way music represents many thing, and it is not as romantic as everyone was assumes it is. It's almost an ugly thing, the glutinous attitude so many of the characters have towards it makes its such a hard to theme to completely grasp.

Music basically becomes the most extreme emotions. Of every emotion that is represented.

Sport Royal

Maria calls her manipulation of Malvolio " Sport Royal"....

Maria calling her manipulation of Malvolio "Sport Royal" is something I would expect. Malvolio torments everyone who is not of high status, he is rude, self- centered, and self adored. Messing with him to Maria, Toby, and Fabian is how they entertain themselves. It's a game they play to get revenge and have a laugh also. Basically killing two birds with one stone.

Ink Shedding: Twelfth Night

Orsino: Act II. 4 (around line 37)
"Then let thy love be younger than thyself,
Or thy affection cannot hold that bent;
For women are as roses, who fair flow'r,
Being once displayed, doth fall that very hour."

Here Orsino is discussing women with Cesareo or Viola.
Viola tells Orsino that she is in love with a woman of his age (when it's actually Orsino). Immediately Orsino's reaction is that she is too old for him. He then states that women are like flowers, more specifically Roses. They are beautiful for a short time, but eventually their age and become ugly. Orsino is basically being a shallow jerk- saying you have to marry women while they’re young, while they are still beautiful.

Virtual Iraq Abstract

Sue Halperns main claim in Virtual Iraq is that immersion therapy using a virtual world of war time may dramatically help in dealing with PSTD. Sue’s article talks about many different aspects of the how immersion therapy works. When I first read about immersion therapy I was confused as how going back to the place that hurt you so deeply was a good idea. But seeing the further development of trying to desensitize the person the memories and environment, showed that it works. Sue uses interviews and past experiments related to Virtual Iraq, like virtual Vietnam, to support her argument.
What else was interesting is how masculine the therapy treatment is. Several times in the article it is mentioned how therapy is not masculine, and how it is frowned about in the marines. Even the creator of Virtual Iraq, is described as an extremely masculine person, who drives a specific type of motor cycle. Virtual Iraq is basically immersion therapy for people who cannot accept the idea of divulging there problems to a human being.
Sue talks about this virtual therapy to show how advanced technology is becoming, that now therapy has become virtual reality. The patients or at least “Travis Boyd” showed significant improvement by this experimental trial at virtual therapy.

What do you mean my old PC is in Africa?

When I first read " High Tech Trash" by Chris Carroll-- I was in complete shock. There were no words to describe how ignorant and small I felt.
Everyday I use my computer, Ipod, cell phone and everything in between. My family alone in the past 10 years has generated enough e-waste to fill a small stadium. And the thing is, it never, ever, ever crossed my mind where all our old electronics where actually going. You ship them off to be recycled and you think to your self "Oh wow I am doing such a good thing for the environment. I'm recycling!"... Lo and behold, many months later that same cell phone or computer thought to be recycled sits in a developing nation, going up in flames, and aiding in the demise of our physical world and the health of hundreds of children.
Of course I was disgusted and challenged by the idea of how piles of old electronics being made into shanty towns of flames. Can I actually help? Or is it to late for that? So many people make there living from the trade of scrap metal, people whom you wouldn't even imagine. There is so much turmoil in this world and now it is being enhanced by technology, the technology that was supposed to bring the world further into the future and into a new era of electronics. Well it's certainly bringing our lives to new heights, but I'm afraid over all "e-trash" will be the negative factor that brings all this new technology crumbling down.

High Tech Trash Abstract

High Tech Trash by Chris Carroll, claims the E-trash, has become, a major problem that has yet been properly dealt with. Carroll uses his own personal experiences and statistics to show audiences, or Americans, what actually happens to all of our "e-trash" we discard of. Carroll discusses recycling and how real recycling is beneficial but companies advertise themselves as so, when in reality they are just dumping the garbage. Yes, there are companies like Creative Recycling in Tampa Florida, but the other companies are few and far between. What it really comes down to is awareness. After someone disposes of an old cell phone or computer, nobody really does know where it ends up. What goes around comes around is the moral of this story. We dispose a lot of our trash into developing nations like China. China then makes jewelry, plates, and other household items and sells it back to America, causing a vicious cycle of disease and sickness all around. The sadder part is that many people make a living off of this "e-trash" by burning the wires to get to the metal furthering the pollution of the earth.

small objects, LARGE SUBJECT: Artificial Sweeteners

Equal

Splenda

and

Sweet and Low

In this day and age fake food is starting to replace real food. Every where you look you see things like:
" I can't believe it's not butter."
"Splenda is made with real sugar. But it’s not real sugar!”
“Same great taste, with fewer calories!”

But really what is the point to eating things that are fake? Things that have ingredients like soluble saccharin, calcium silicate, anti- caking agent, and beta-carotene are replacing the ingrediants we actually can recongize. Just in case you didn’t know what Saccharin is ( because I didn't):

Saccharin: is an artificial sweetener. The basic substance, benzoic sulfimide, has effectively no food energy and is much sweeter than sucrose, but has an unpleasant bitter or metallic aftertaste, especially at high concentrations. In countries where saccharin is allowed as a food additive, it is used to sweeten products such as drinks, candies, medicines, and toothpaste.(Wikepidia)

Companies claim that these fake sweeteners are healthier and provide the same sweetness without the negative affects of sugar.

But how can something artificial actually be healthy?

It can't!!

The real issue lies in American culture and portioning of food. People recognize the negative affects sugar has on health. But instead of changing the portion size or taking sugar completely out of someone’s diet, people replace it with artificial sweetener.

Many people argue they want to loose weight! So they replace sugar and butter with fake supplements. But really how many of those people do you know actually see loose weight?
Your body requires a certain amount of sugar to properly digest and function. These sweeteners fulfill no dietary need and the chemicals in them can actually cause you to gain weight.
Sugar just like everything else is all right in small portions. Eating something that is not good for you in large portions or to often will always end in poor physical health.

Balance is key.

Yes, these artificial sweeteners are a nice to thing to have for people who can’t eat sugar at all due to medicals reasons. But most of the time, the people using them don’t need to!
Our society promotes less fat, fewer calories, diet diet DIET! But it never seems to dwell on feeding your body and nourishing it with what it needs.

An "Abstract" outline

IS GOOGLE MAKING US STUPID?
by Nicholas Carr

Warrant:
The Audience uses google, a lot.
You find this right in the title
" Is google making us stupid?

Claim:
Nicholas Carr claim is that the internet is taking away the ability for him to concentrate on one thing. Google isn't making us stupid but retraining our minds to process information differently.

"...And what the net seems to be doing is chipping away my capacity for concentration and contemplation. My mind now expects to take information in the way the net distributes it."

Subclaims:
-People tend to Glorify things that are new instead of reckoning the harm.
-Old media trys to recreate itself to make it more appealing, and fit the "new Media" pg. 24
-Depending on audiences and what we are using to write our style changes. Pg. 23

Support:
-computers have taken away our ability to concentrate. Pg. 21
-even reaing short articles is a task that is left uncompleted by many people now. Pg. 21
- the internet is taking away a part of your natural instinct.
i.e the clock takes away our natural awareness of time. pg. 23

"Is Google Making Us Stupid?"

Okay, so I am now supposed to write for twenty minuets without stopping. I’m not really positive I can do this…
Nicholas Carrs argues in his article “Is Google Making Us Stupid” that search engines are taking away our ability to concentrate for long periods of time, and retain in depth knowledge about multiple subjects. I agree with his argument completely, because I have realized this change in myself as of recently.
The NY Times website is my web home page, and I always read the little headline blurbs, and sometimes I will read the article if it catches my interest. Most of the time though I actually never finish the article, and I always ask myself— why? If the article exceeds three pages I usually stop reading, because by the third page my attention span is starting to rapidly unwind and I start thinking about life instead of the article. The article then becomes information I am just skimming through instead of actually retaining …
I am not sure if Google is making us “stupid”, but changing the way we process knowledge. In the article it related the use of the Internet to the use of clocks, and how people started to live their lives by scientific spans of time, instead of natural instinct. The Internet has changed, and is changing learning, just like clocks desensitized our natural awareness of time. The Internet could take away a person’s natural ability to learn. Even though it’s a step forward for technology it has similar effects that the printing press had on learning. Except this time, everything is virtual and gives anyone and everyone an infinite vat of knowledge at there leisure.
What happens though, is instead of retaining the entirety of Google’s contents, whenever it is needed you go your computer, blackberry, Mac book, iphone ect. when you want learn something to be put in your short term memory. But what happens if technology is suddenly taken away? Will the natural instincts that we as human kind use to live by come back immediately? Or would there just be mass confusion? Technology is not a bad thing by any means, we use it constantly and it is now an enormous part of our everyday lives.
Another comparison Carrs makes is between the creation steam engine and the Internet. Showing how the steam engine took away the necessity of physical labor. Just like the Internet could take away the necessity to think.

This is a problem.

Getting rid of the demand for physical labor by machines replaces the need for physical exercise and other ways of keeping our body healthy and in shape. Which, unfortunately, in this country has become something many people do not find important. So, can the same happen to our brains? Will there be an epidemic like obesity that is created from not using certain parts of our cerebrum? Will there be brain nutritionist, personal brain trainers, websites, books, and magazines all devoted to telling us how to keep our brains healthy. The problem is there is no balance, as progress is made the usage of machines and computers become more extreme. Which leaves me with the question:

When does access to so much information become too much?