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Floreren In Het Digitale Tijdperk (2012)

by Tom Chatfield(Favorite Author)

3.28 of 5 Votes: 4

languge

English

genre

Nonfiction

publisher

De Arbeiderspers

review 1: Hmmmm. It was enjoyable enough, but felt like it touched too lightly on everything. I guess that's somewhat the point of the School Of Life series - short, and sharply directed - but here it was just too big of a subject, and the ideas too much of a random collection of ideas to be treated as such. I'd of rather the space be taken up with a deeper discussion on just one of the ideas raised. You will not learn how to thrive in the digital age.It does present a good mixture of positive and negative issues, and overall it reads quite jovially, but the main take away is to simple - ration your time online and don't neglect the other areas of your life.Ok, I will.
review 2: We live in an age of miracles. Technology has gone through fascinating changes in the last fe... morew decades. Looking back a few decades even to the early first years of the 21th century a lot has happen and will continue, that’s how technology works. Intel’s co-founder Gordon E.Moore predicted that every 18 months the CPU chips performance will be doubling, till this day this has been the case. It’s expected that this will continue happening till somewhere between 2015 and 2020. The first digital computers appeared in the 1940s. By the end of 1970s, new machines by Apple, Commodore Tandy sold thousands of unites, it is said that the digital revolution had gone public. Nowadays there are countless of people waiting for the latest technologies to arrive and are fascinated about them. You can see how far companies such as Apple, Microsoft and Sony have become. People are willing to line up at midnight at the release of some certain game or brand products for example the new IPhones or gaming consoles. This is what it has become.On average people tend to stay “plugged-in” most of their waking hours and spending time surfing the internet. Most have probably wondered where do those hours go? These kinds of questions are being thought in the first few chapters of the book. One can think of the book as somewhat a guide how to get along with the technology.With the popularity of technology, more and more people use it to communicate and share the information with their friends. To illustrate, people can use text message and e-mail to communicate and share the information. It is more convenient than using written message. When it comes to memory, in a digital machine, 'memory' describes a binary sequence that encodes information. Limited but increasingly vast in capacity, the average memory of a computer today extends to many billions of digital bits: enough to encompass libraries of books, millions of images, weeks of film. This kind of digital data storage is in some ways superior to a human memory. So, It can really improve people's working efficiency. But if we overuse technological systems, we will lose the humanity. So, taking control is necessary.As for reframing technology, I think that digital age is a double-edged sword. In the article, the author said that because of the prevalence of technology, teenagers have more access to Internet. But teens are willing to learn more about the dangers of the digital world rather than something useful for their studying. I think that this is a big threat to the problem of juvenile precocity. What’s more, people who are lack of self-control addicted to Virtual digital world. In this case, people will spend more time on Internet or mobile phone; they don’t want to spend time with their family. This is very terrible situation. This is why I said that digital age is a double-edged sword.Nowadays search engines become more powerful. They observed the history of the details people surfing the Internet and record it. Throughout period of time of collection, it became strong. After some newly algorithms were invented, which decided how to choose, balance and use these information collected by many years, the powerful search engines were given birth in a digital age. Afterwards, free and open were advocated with the rise of search engines. That is to say, people can probably get whatever they want by search engines if there is someone who would like to share with you. However, a fresh conflict came into being between free and copyright that many people rely on to make a living.Besides, the authority has been departed. Many people use social network every day. Every time you comment, or share something, you face a selection whether to believe what you want to comment or share. It means that authority is someone or something wins more audience.Internet makes the information of pornography and sexuality spreads unprecedentedly fast. The most searched keyword in Google is love, and the second one is sex. And the loss of protection of privacy becomes a fresh problem. From my point of view, this is all starting from the Internet, search engines and social networks in a digital age. We are probably as human as others allow us to be.Author utilizes positive and negative demonstrations to prove all his arguments such as the negative aspects of Twitter like half-truth and special-interest but finally it comes to his own viewpoint. From my point of view, Internet indeed grows in a more open, free, critical thinking road. Human relies on it and it is also affected by it in positive and negative ways. I approve the objective opinion of author. And I believe there will be a new institution around the corner, which could help solute those problems and leave people with optimistic.In chapter 7, Tom discussed how playing games changed our way of lives and what did we get from playing games, in the meantime, what did we lost. And chapter 8 talked about the huge impact technology has on the current political movement and the challenges policy are maker facing in the digital age. The most interesting topic from these chapters is the question brought by Enrico Fermi and also the followed theoretical answers. To be honest, I rarely playing games on any electric devices, but I do spend quite a lot of time on the Internet for entertainment purposes. Could it really be the case that our technology development is forced to pause because of the worldwide addiction to computer games? Maybe at some point in the future, AI might take up our work allowing us to have a decent life without working. But I don't think the majority of us would become very lazy and abandon themselves games and pleasure. Because it's almost impossible for all the humans to live like this. Along with this lifestyle would only be empty and loneliness. less

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