week of 10/15/11

This week we began the presentations. The Dumbest Generation and Against the Machine both seemed to take a fairly one-side pessimistic view of the internet. While I think there are some negative aspects of the internet, I feel that it is very difficult to argue that it is all bad. Like any other major technological advance, it has caused a paradigm that has profoundly and permanently changed our society, but that change is not necessarily a good or bad thing.