MIIIIIIIIIIIIIINNNNDD CONTROL!!!!!!!

The article "How Computers Change the Way we Think" I one that I understand and agree with on the most part.

The only part that I didn't get was the part about "transparency", cause it's not a computering concept that's thrown around much anymore. Cause most of the people who might be considered part of this internet generation, have only been using computers since around Windows 3.1 at the earliest.

But the individual issues brought up are both important and relevant.

•Privacy: I've been using the internet for a decade or now so I'm pretty sure that all my personal info is out there somewhere, cause when I was younger I didn't know any better about putting my name and email and other things put there. But in recent years I've mostly just made fake email addresses, and given fake name whenever something required registrations of any sort. I have an email that I only use for fake registrations so that it gets most of the spam. Though I disagree with the statements about not caring about the incursions into privacy. I just watched "Enemy of the State" last week and I certainly wish to keep my life out of the surveillance of anyone else.

•As for the whole issue of powerpoint, I've never really been affected by it, I've only used it about 4 times in my life, and three of those times were in middles school. But I guess those were so that info could be presented as a visual representations of facts, and easily understood without all the hubub of a lecture. Though that might be good for some younger people, cause they do have shorter attention spans. Though the points brought up about the losing of the narrative in the presentation of information do seem valid.

•I love the word processer myself, I type faster that I write, and I do find myself able to be more productive with a keyboard than with pen and paper. I have a better ability to just make information flow, and that combined with the ability to edit what I've said makes writing for me much easier. I can type fast enough that my hands don't have to play catchup as they would if I were writing.

The part about the constrained environments provided by most computers Is indeed and accurate. The portrayal of video games as a pattern of danger/safe danger/safe is like one my dad always provided.

He always said that he didn't like the same type of games I did because they were just wanering through a maze and shooting monsters, the environments and the monsters changed but the activity stayed the same.

And it is this sameness that the author fears. I agree with what she says in her closing that it's something we have to work against, and that we still need to ask the who's, what's ,where 's, why's, and when's.

"When I first began studying the computer culture, a small breed of highly trained technologists
thought of themselves as "computer people." That is no longer the case. If we take the computer
as a carrier of a way of knowing, a way of seeing the world and our place in it, we are all computer people now."