The new Digital age.

Both Jaron Lanier book You are not a Gadget and Schmidt and Cohen’s The New Digital Age have interesting takes on what will come of this digital world we are creating. Lanier mostly warns about the dangers of this Digital age while Schmidt and Cohen give us some of the positives that can come from it. I find myself set somewhere in the middle. I love electronics, the possibilities that can come from them, but also understand that we can’t let the digital side of the world overcome the natural side. When we start to become more immersed in the internet and other forms of digital immersion over natural immersion and communication is when we will have went too far. Schmidt and Cohen talk about fully immersive virtual reality and other things of that nature and that is sort of scary to think about because at that point, that is when we are starting to rely on technology to keep us alive.