I have just recently read about the first bookless library
in America
The other thing is this push for more technology. The push
to do away with the old and center in only on the new. I get tired of all the
technology all the time. I am tired of the push for e-publishing, e-reader
stuff. What happened to cracking open an old fashioned book. Yeah it’s heavier
but who cares. This generation coming up will have no clue about what it is
like to do without technologies. I am only 26 but I didn’t have a computer or
email until I was like 12 and even then I didn’t really use it very often. I
didn’t have a cell phone until I was like 15.
Also this bookless library reminds me of an Outer Limits
episode. Where people had a chip in their brains that told them everything they
needed to know. Regular paper books were a thing of the past and were forbidden
to be had. You must check out a chip to be put in your brain chip which will
tell you the story of the book. Also the government dictated what books could
be told. One guy in this world was part of a group who could not take a brain
chip so he found ways to get hold of actual books. That is how he learned
everything. When the world went crazy and the chips started to glitch they
became unusable. So after that happens they go this man and he shows them what
they must do to learn. Because none of these people knew how to really learn.
Everything was given via the brain chip implant. Is this to be our future?
I am not the only one who thinks this. I read many comments
of the bookless library article and I agreed with many of them. Will some day
books be banned and in doing so just wipe out the computers, whisking away the
literature of countless generations and there lessons. Think a future version of Fahrenheit 451.
Will people get tired of
paper books and just discard them. Will we be forced to go paperless and loose
a little bit of the charm that comes with it? I enjoy the smell of the pages
and to see the little messages in the books from the previous owners.
So I wonder when will technology push to the point where we
must use it or get left and lost in the past. Every month a new cell phone
comes out before the old is even old. Every year countless new computers are
brought on the market. I don’t think we should go back to 1799 but I don’t
think we should loose a little bit of what the past gave us. To see where we
came from and how we got here. Technology isn’t bad by any means but I think we
push forward making new objects to be desired when we really don’t need them. I
sometimes wish that I could live in a simple world. Not one that does away with
all technology but just one that doesn’t swarm us with useless items.
People would rather sit on a computer and see their friend’s posts on facebook then call
said friend up and go hang out,
because they often don’t know those people in the real world. Texts are more
prevalent than a phone call. People have phones shoved in their faces and don’t
see the beauty of the world. People would rather sit in front of a computer
than do hard labor like our ancestors. To farm land is often detestable or not
interesting. To build a building is hard work. But without the hard work on our
ancestor’s shoulders we wouldn’t have all the skyscrapers and beautiful architecture
often found on this world.
So are we to snub the past and keep wanting more and more
technology and technical devices. I fear the day we look up and don’t know our
selves or even contemplate what happened to Earth and beyond. We are even
starting to clutter space with our satellites and other garbage. One day we
will look up and all we will see is an endless collection of debris around our
world. The cities will get bigger and woods and forests and waters will get
smaller.
These are just my thoughts. I don’t know what will happen
but I know we will have quite a cleanup ahead of us if we continue to pollute
and over crowd this world. The only world we have or ever will have. I hope
anyone who reads this understands these are just my thoughts and ramblings.
If any one wishes to weigh in on this subject please do so
in the comments section.
