HW 7 Interviews and surveys

When I interviewed my dad about modern day digitilization his thoughts were very mixed. To put it in perspective he was born in the 1950s. A time when having a television was a luxury instead of a "social necessity". When he was growing up there were only four channels on t.v. and it wasn't a twenty four hour service. Also at the time newspapers were something that everyone considered to be important. The newspaper was delivered twice per day, a morning addition and an evening edition. Now to jump back to the modern day he lives life very twenty first century. He has a facebook he watches a lot of tv he does all of his billing online he rarely uses his land line and relies on Wi-Fi wherever he goes. So when I asked him about the state of technology today his thoughts were mixed. He said that for his life and at his age that it was great for him, but he also said that he felt like the intellectual stamina of the world was receeding with the uprise of digital technology. In other words, the pwer of suggestion, if it's no longer such a great acheivment to know the history of another country or stay connected with politics or the financial sector then why bother knowing at all? However he said that he thought that without the internet he wouldn't be able to keep in contact with many people and all of the paper work he used to have to do has been cut in half not to mention the fact that his job has become much easier.