Sunday, August 12, 2018

The age of earthquakes


At first glance, I thought I had ordered the wrong book, seeing its seemingly disorganized, picture filled pages. When reading through this book for the first time, I found myself a bit confused and thinking the book was quite scattered as it had looked with its thoughts and messages. It was intriguing to me to explore this different format of book as it wasn’t your traditional story with characters and a plot. The use of images, text, font, and space was also something that interested me while reading as I made attempts to connect them with one another. It is predominantly an anti-technology/internet book on the surface, but it shows hints of contradicting that it’s willing to allow the use of internet to an extent even with the strong view present. I found this quite interesting, as the author didn’t seem to completely antagonize the internet. I had to read through the book a couple times in order to understand it better and make more sense of it. It ended up introducing me to a more vast sense of what the internet might be doing to us, especially since the internet’s impact on me isn’t something I tend to think about a lot, if at all. The internet is a part of regular life, and is required for most things. I submit my assignments, clock into work, shop for most things, and get my news all from the internet, and that’s just to list a few. If there’s one thing I can appreciate about this book, it is the realization of how much we truly depend on technology in today’s world and the impact it has. (277)

 Janna Novak / 3A / Hendricks

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2 comments:

  1. AnonymousAugust 15, 2018 at 11:56 AM

    I enjoyed how you exposed the parallel between relationships in both reality and the media. The use of apps in this speak lengths as to how we see others in a relationship, acting more like a "tool in the toolbox". Not anything more or anything less. A phone can act as the individual, while apps can be the apparent "addition" to their life.

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  2. AnonymousAugust 15, 2018 at 12:03 PM

    I too had to read the book multiple times before I was able to understand what the book was attempting to convey. I believe having to read the book a couple times was a purposeful goal by the author. You are able to move through the book as quickly as scrolling through something on the internet, thus the author has created a trap. The authors are attempting to inform about the consuming characteristics of the internet by showing you how easy it is to lose site of what you are doing and the meaning behind it when they are present. Are brains are rewired to be dependent on the internet and even just a book that looks like it can satisfy it. I think in this case awareness is one of the most valuable characteristics the book has provided. Otherwise, as your creative addition suggested, we may slowly delete the people from our online life until they aren't there in our offline life either.

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