Rainbows End and the Discomfort

Rainbows End was a bit uncomfortable for me. I would have felt exactly like Gu with all of the new technologies. In the Minority Report Tom Cruise walked through a bunch of advertisements and they were all shouting his name trying to sell him things. This scene in the movie made me really uncomfortable because we are already heading towards this already. Google will give you advertisements based on what you search on the Internet. I don’t need anymore help trying to stop myself from buying things. I also hate that advertisements think they know me. Also, I’d definitely need glasses, like the Google glasses, because I hate touching my eye and won’t be able to wear the contacts. I’d be the worst AR person because I wont be able to use the technology. Also, I think it would be interesting to see the studies done on headaches and eye problems caused from using the contact lens. I don’t think our eyes are meant to have information that close. People get headaches from looking at computer screens for too long and now we are trying to have computers on our eyes instead. That just seems a little counterproductive to me. I was a little confused about how the email would work. Like I know it’s supposed to be person to person communication, but I guess I don’t really understand how that works really. And also sounds a little weird. I like the pop culture that is thrown into the book as well such as mentioning Rowling. I also disagree that the geeks would be the ones to give up real books for digitization. I like people who like comic books, reading, and fantasy would be the ones to keep real books around. It makes me worried that ebooks are becoming so popular in the schools and that real books are becoming obsolete. I don’t want to lose all the antiquated technologies. I think letter writing is a lost art form. I think typewriters are cool. I love real books and this immanent technology freaks me out because I can only be old fashion for so long before I have to start using the new technology. Although with that said I do own all the apple products so how much do I really dislike technology. I just don’t want everything to become digital. I have a fear of technology crashing and then what will we do. If records are all electronic now and then a crash happens then we have lost everything and have to start over again. It will be like building society from scratch. Plus precious things could be lost forever. I mean how cool is it to have copies of original Shakespeare plays, or first editions of books. If everything becomes digital then how cool does it really become to say hey look at my first edition of this digital copy. It sounds a little silly. Although if it’s knowledge we seek then it won’t be so silly. Who cares how we got the information about Shakespeare as long as we know it. It’s a slippery slop this new technological age we are entering. We must trend lightly.