Homework for the 22

The vast amounts of information that we possess and can posses are limitless because we live in a society in which technology is the center. There is a video on YouTube that is called “Did You Know?” that talks about out the exponential growth of the world. In this video it gives examples of how in the future the top 10 jobs were not real jobs until 2004, and how students are being taught subjects to solve problems that are not problems in the world yet. This is proof that with the exponential growth of the world needs technology. When we think of technology, a lot of us think about cell phones and the internet, which are excellent ways to keep up with the news and learn things that would take long amounts of time to learn. Because of the fast pace world that we live in technology helps us do things faster and more efficiently and we all need technology to live i.e. the internet. In the video it also says that there are 3.1 billion searches on Google every month, and from the year 1992-2008 the number of internet devices went from 1,000,000 to 1,000,000,000. This means that everyone wants a computer in their houses therefore meaning that people are choosing technology over everything else. Technology is replacing books, but despite how people feel that the internet is better, people who have books in their houses are much better off than people who only use “technology.” Link to video (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nteiqLgZFOU&feature=fvst)

Most will say that there is no way that books can replace computers and the power of the internet; like the You Tube video at the rate technology is growing, by the year 2049, a $1000 computer will exceed the computational capabilities of the entire human species. These facts and numbers may be true, but having books in a house would more beneficial that having a computer and/or cell phone with internet capabilities, because information is good, but knowledge is better. When people Google search, they get short snip bits of information, for example if someone were to type in Pythagorean theorem, the top result would be Wikipedia saying a^2+b^2=c^2 and not very much more than that and how to use it. This is helpful, but it is much better to know that the Pythagorean Theorem can be used not just in geometry, but in calculus and trigonometry. By looking that information up on a computer, one would probably not understand that the Pythagorean Theorem can be applied to the trigonometric property of sin^2x+cos^2x=1. This is when a book would be more helpful than a computer because a book would give examples and explain the relationship between functions and equations.