Monday, February 26, 2007

Mr.Burrell's Frightening Video

I wasnt sure on the procedure for commenting on our collaborators webesites, spefically Mr.Burrells class mostly because they use learner blogs, not blog spot. I did however check out their site and if i could comment on the video "Did You Know?" it would go a little something like this:
Although i found the video intriguing, entertaining, and was amazed by the bluntly presented statistics, i found the video to be overwhelming, and overdramatised. They combined frightening numbers with even more frightening sound effects to scare the veiwers into...well i dont even really know what the goal of the video was. What the producers of this presentation neglected to explain was the basis of human growth, and were humans, not computers. They compare past present and future numbers showing the growth of technology, population and overall modern-ness yet throughout the centuries humans have always and will always be the same. What we value will never change no matter how much computers do. Family, love, mystery, romance, remorse, all these things have remained the same throughout the course of histroy and no matter the changes that took place in technology and modernization these aspects of life are what drives us to be who we are. The idea that a super-computer that "exceeds the computation abilities of the human brain" may seem scary to some, but basically all that means is that they can crunch numbers together better than we can, and we already have that, its called a calculator. The fact is computers will never be able to have feelings, and will never replace the human race, so comparing the two is just a little rediculous.

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