Friday, February 27, 2009

I am so hungry.

I think it's funny that I am not writing an email to a person, but to
an inanimate program that will never read this thing.  It will just
copy and place this thing into a text box, without look at the
context. I can write about how much I dread the person I emailing and
it won't matter, because I am not writing to a person. It is just a
machine, without emotion, and can not comprehend the meaning of this
message.

This comes in complete contrast to all of the previous emails I have
written hitherto to people. People who can adjust, interpret, learn
and do all things human.

The latter, to learn is to not make us human, no. To be able to learn
is to be able to live. We, as people, are not the only things on
earth exclusive to learning, cats do it dogs do it, all living things
do it. Thus to learn is to live.

The future seems a more livelier place. With the advent of the
computer, the internet, and technology the process of being able to
learn is accessible to many how would never see this opportunity at
any previous time of history. Take for example this video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mx2P1_M-7UA . Produced by the renown
learning institution Yale University, the video is just a series of
videos provided free on the internet, for anyone with internet access
to view, and to learn. The spread of knowledge will be exponentially
greater then ever before.

The irony about this situation is that it is an inanimate system, who
cannot possibly comprehend the meaning of all of this, providing you
the methods of what it can not understand.

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