Within the technology to chronicle daily life comes the theory that we as a society and individually will be able to work harder, live faster and generally improve to the point of living, breathing, emotionalizing machines. We as people will be able to remember and self analyze every portion of our day with ease and without time restriction. I would like to point out though the idea of the computer as a crutch that holds up our lifestyles. While we record every second of our life we easily slip into a process of dependence of a system that runs our lives for us. Our enterprising self gets lost upon the need reanalyze an image or sound and the dumbing down of modern society, who needs to stay witty and sharp when you can rely on a computer to always back you up?
Take a look at this article.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/20071126/sc_livescience/fakephotosalterrealmemories
While this only hints at one of the problems that were presented in the text, secured information and alteration of info, it gives the idea that with a single computer glitch our crutch can become a self deflating and misleading system.
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