PBS Frontline: Digital Nation Reaction
Donavon Curtis
Full Sail University
PBS Frontline: Digital Nation Reaction
This documentary, in 90 minutes was able to touch base and speak to perhaps the major areas that are affected by technology today, whether it be perceived as a positive or negative affect. From studying some of the most brilliant minds at MIT University, to traveling to classrooms and households around the world to even take a look into to modern combat.
Watching, understanding and seeing the various arguments in the documentary pushed me to an understanding that such a rapid growth of technology is neither solely good nor bad, but rather powerful. The documentary, in my view, presented the need for balance in this society. During the viewing, I notice the constant desire to try this new technology with either very little research of its effects or serious planning, thus showing another the lack of balance or middle ground. Though I biasedly took the viewpoint of those for technology and its modern progression, I still presented an open mind to hear and begin to understand the viewpoints, facts and opinion of those against, wishing for more traditional methods. Modern-day technology allows individuals to customize their lives. It provides a medium to disconnect from unwanted real-world situations, even if for a few seconds. The reality today is people want this connection with a distance. This new thing, allows us to encompass our thoughts and words, clean, edit, and then publish such.
Growing up during my time, sets my generation amongst being considered digital immigrants and digital natives. My cohort [this generation] often realizes the fear of change, which is reasonably understandable, seeing such rapid and rather significant growth within the last 20 years alone. The digital immigrant in us wants to take a vacation from technology, sit at the dinner table and not look at phones, go outside and see the world...