Friday, June 25, 2010
Blog Entry 3: Freestyle
It comes as no surprise that Americans are putting down their books and replacing them with blackberries, home PCs, X-Box, and just about everything else you can think of. We have been slowly but surly outsourcing paper docs for electronic docs for years, you can barely survive in the world without a laptop computer. Kids are getting access to cellular phones soon after they speak there first words. Look at just about any formal job description and computer literacy will be at or near the top. Don't get me wrong, I do recognize all of the wonderful gifts that technology has provided us, I just don't want to see my entire life managed by a computer. Imagine a world wear all books, even libraries, are accessed via your home PC or blackberry. I'm sure there are those among us that would consider that technological advancement, I find it a little scary.
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Hi, Jason. Glad to have you in the course! Kevin is the other firefighter here, and as I posted on his blog, I often work with firefighters in WR 320 Professional Writing where I am impressed with their professionalism.
ReplyDeleteI, too, have mixed feelings about the electronic age. While I feel that half of my brain is online, I am also worried that we may be losing something by spending so much of our lives in front of a screen. I am also a little scared by the on-demand communication represented by cell phones and other similar devices. I don't really want to be on call all the time, so I haven't yet invested in a cell phone. However, I'm having more trouble finding pay phones these days, so I may be forced to get a phone for when I travel... Nancy
We should all be a little scared about advances in technology. We are trying to go paperless on everything we can these days. We are saving trees, but loosing jobs. At the bank I work at we are encouraging e-statements so they don't have to mail statements to customers anymore. We no longer accept applications in person; you must apply online. We mostly do just telephone interviews now. Decline letters for after the telephone interview are generated automatically to email; not individually written any longer. We no longer receive pay stubs; we have to go online and print it if we want one. All these things can save a company money, but where will we be when everyone is out of work?
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