Christopher Locke’s “Internet Apocalypso” triggered me to ask myself this very simple inquiry: “When did I learn how to communicate?”
Three very obvious realizations come into my senses:
- When we were born, we attached to our families through simple winks of our eyes and little movements of our delicate fingers. When we were toddlers, we learned to utter simple words that bridges us to have friends. When we reached our school age, we started to learn new concepts that connect us to the people that we know… And to those that we do not know.
- Communication serves as our better halves. From the moment we engage ourselves to communicate, we exchange vows to make use of it for better or for worst. We accept whatever changes or forms it took for it to satisfy our needs.
- We are growing in a very fast pace environment. A town that was filled with trees turned in to a busy urban community with soaring buildings and speeding vehicles. Houses which were made out of bamboo turned into glamorous stoned mansions. People who used to here news from a town official can now easily acquire it with one click of a finger.
Locke provided us a better perspective of “technology” in this chapter by highlighting our necessity for “Internet”. Let’s admit it! At this growing generation, how can we surive if we do not embrace changes? Innovation? Advancement? Modernization?
Retaining our “traditional” conventions is truly grateful. But we should learn to let go… We should not close our doors to new paradigms.
As future professionals, it’s good to know that at this time, we are educated on what tools should we use to improve ourselves in the fields or careers we want to pursue. This will help us to gauge what organizations we should fit in or to be part of and take into consideration their ability to survive in this competitive world. And we should keep in our minds, that being responsible inviduals, we also have to give back something not just to the community we belong to, but also to the future generation.
The bottom line is: Internet is not created to rule out our
traditional way of living. Know its importance, believing its capabilities, learn what it offers and love it. Enjoy what is provided for us and live our lives to the fullest.
