Monday, October 10, 2011
Only Time Will Tell
As new technology continues to grow, the traditional habits decrease as technology increasingly expands our world. What are grandparents were used to growing up seems like such a long time ago, something some of us couldn't imagine living in. A lifestyle without my cell phone? How did people stay in touch without them- better yet, what about without a laptop and our social networking websites? It's hard for some of us to imagine what it would be like. The technology in our world today has brought in new ways to communicate and interact, like the ipod and smart phones, but what has it taken away? In our grandparents life, they communicated in person. They didn't have ipods to listen to individually, everyone listened to the same thing if they wanted to hear music. These all have changed, however, one of the most influential changes, I believe, is the ways that books are now read. Several people today are reading books on their ipads or kindles, downloading them off the internet. People read their news on their smart phones or their laptops, getting the news on the internet instead of reading a newspaper or magazine. However, past generations and our generation grew up with reading books, learning how to hold them, what way to turn the pages, and things like that. We didn't grow up learning that clicking the next button no our laptop is the way to turn the page. However, I wonder how future generations are going to handel these situations. Are children still going to be able to read books from the hardcover books, or are they going to learn how to type and read online? I feel as if it is important that young children keep this traditional lifestyle of reading actual books. The book itself will teach children not only how to hold it correctly, but how to engage in reading and physically turning the pages. How the future generations use book is a mystery to us and only time will tell.
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Although times are changing and books are becoming a thing of the past, I feel that children will still be required to read hard cover books. With this, children will have the choice to choose whether they like reading a hard cover book or prefer a book on the internet. I prefer a hard cover book over online resources. For myself, it is easier to highlight important items or flip back to a page to reference something. It is also easier for me to keep track of where I am on the page. Since books are becoming more extinct, people may start to value them more. Do you think this could change the way people view literature? It may create more excitement if the books they are reading from are hard to come by.
ReplyDeleteEven though I enjoy having so much new technology such as my computer or my cell phone I don’t think I will ever like the idea of reading a book on a computer screen. I think that having an ipad or a kindle to read on only takes away from the experience of reading a real book. A real book allows you to have something after you are done reading. You can place a book on a shelf and later see all of the great books that you have read. I also don’t like how e readers are taking away from bookstores. Picking a book off amazon is not the same as walking through a bookstore and getting to flip through many books before making a selection. I think that future generations wont even have the option of walking into a bookstore. Every thing will be available online.
ReplyDeleteI personally do not enjoy reading information off the computer. I was actually going to write a post about the same thing right before I saw this post. I think the physical aspect of holding a book really creates a positive interaction. I have read a few articles on my dad's kindle and I just find it boring and dry. I have noticed with my younger cousin that he uses the Leap Star system a lot, and I don't think that he learned as quickly as my cousins and myself. I hope that he eventually will gravitate more towards books, but I think that technology will continue to overtake future generations, eventually diminishing books.
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