Another EMAC 2321 Assignment…Our professor asked us too read an article by Telegraph.co.uk, entitled “50 things that are being killed by the internet“, he wants us to list 3 things we believe the internet has killed…An interesting question…
The internet has brought on fundamental change in almost every area of our lives, what can we says has been changed, and at what point do we say something has been killed? Here are 3 things which I think have been thoroughly axed by the internet:
1. Physical public forum:
The internet is thoroughly destroying peoples ability to get together, from all walks of life, and talk about important topics. This is destroying the United States political landscape. I once saw a documentary titled Split: A Divided America, and it explained this topic well. Watch it below:
2. The music store experience:
I was developing my love for music right around when Napster was live, I remember my friends brother downloading bands like Pantera and Metallica (Ironic), anyway, although I was never around to really spent time wondering the isles of music stores, I do remember it faintly, where did that go? Now we can sample music online, a bad thing? Nah, however a large part of the experience has been lost from the whole music discovery process, no longer do we have to stand around looking through millions of CD’s and taking a stack of CD’s or cassets over to the demo stand, most websites can recommend great music. Oh, yeah, what happened to the audio CD/physical audio medium? Weird!
3. Down time…
I believe the Telegraph.co.uk article mentions this, however, so true, when is the last time you went and just, “chilled out”…I can pinpoint it, I chilled out for 30 min last august when my truck broke down in canton,TX I went and got an ice cream cone from the Dairy Palace, sat outside in a rocking chair, closed my eyes and just let my mind wonder. It’s been a year, crazy. With the internet at our fingertips constantly nowadays, we are always occupied with something.