Type anything into the search bar on Google and anything relevant to that word or those words will pop-up. Thousands of papers or blogs or websites related to that topic will show up. Google has the answers to many questions. Ask Google who was the 14th president or why does Swiss cheese have holes in it and you will find you answer. The Internet has become an abundance of information relating to anything and everything. Books also have to answers to many questions. Ever since Google first started it has only become more and more popular. It is more convenient. It makes life easier. Turning on the computer and typing a few words is much easier than going to the library and searching for a book. Google alone has made our society lazy and stubborn.
Having massive amounts of information on a website such as Google is great for the public who have access to the Internet. Although having such information is awesome, Google can gain access to any book or scholarly journal as long as the writer says that they can have access to it. If they can not get in touch with that person they still have a right to copyright it. People think that this is unfair seeing as if the book is online for everyone to see how is the book still making profit. If it is free online why would someone go out and buy it? The general public is not allowed to copyright anything that they do not have permission for. Google is allowed to copyright anything even if they do not have permission. How is that fair? Yes Google is trying to help the public by giving away this information to just anyone who has internet access. I think that is is wrong for people to be able to put something online without the writers permission.
The purpose of libraries will soon die out. If everyone is going online, using kindles, nooks, and other sources of reading material there will be no need for libraries. Within The Shallows Carr talks about books eventually becoming extinct. I agree. Hard copies of books will eventually die out. Technology is so convenient and also cheaper. A book can cost twenty dollars but on a kindle is is only seven.Technology is developing faster and faster within the 21st century and soon there will no longer be words on a page only words on a screen. The Kindle, for example, used to be only an online book. Words on a screen and nothing else. Now they have the Kindle Fire. It has online books but also a whole Internet browsing system. This is our future. Every new technology that comes out has to come out with a newer better competing technology. It used to be different companies competing against each other to see whose product will make more money or be more popular. Now companies have to out-do themselves by making their own product bigger and better. So long libraries.. Hello technology.
-Chelsea Slates
Chelsea I agree that Google could have made our generation a little more lazy, because like you said, its all there. Everything we want to know, we can find online. Its a sad thing, but I believe that it has also made us more efficient at what info we are searching for.
ReplyDelete-Michelle Krupnik
I think that eventually, there will definitely be less and less libraries, because there will probably a lot less book readers than e-book readers. Also, you made a good point in saying that Google made some people more lazy, instead of going to a library like they did not too long ago, people just click a button and get most of their research done.
ReplyDelete-Meagan Cox
I definitely agree with your comment, Meagan, I believe that e-readers will become the majority of readers and books will become less and less popular. Also I totally agree that Google has made people so lazy because they don't have to sit down and do extensive research to find an answer they can simply type it into the Google searchbar.
ReplyDelete-Theresa Pallotta