1.) Digital Nation accounts the opinion of the top college professors on the use of laptops in their class. One comments that even though the students are present and all the answers to a test are given prior to the test, they score terribly due to the access of laptops. These professors mostly blame the laptops. However, the students of the class argue that the laptop is not the issue, and that they are well capable of multitasking. Who do you believe to be right? Could this be evidence of a larger overlying issue? (Focus, Priorities, an education system not up to snuff to the newest trends of technology/society)?
2.) Technology has progressed with little resistance in terms of communication advances. There was little dispute over the advent of the telegraph, telephone, fax, email, etc,. What about laptops and smartphones do you believe to be so much more controversial?
-) Consider a person who spends most of his time on the computer vs a person who spends the same amount of time reading books. How do you suppose society would view the two differently despite both haphazardly living vicariously? What does that say about our society?
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