{"id":2561,"date":"2015-07-25T09:00:56","date_gmt":"2015-07-25T15:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/?p=2561"},"modified":"2015-07-19T11:10:27","modified_gmt":"2015-07-19T17:10:27","slug":"21st-century-tech-is-it-harder-or-easier-to-become-informed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/2015\/07\/25\/21st-century-tech-is-it-harder-or-easier-to-become-informed\/","title":{"rendered":"21st Century Tech: Is it harder or easier to become informed?"},"content":{"rendered":"Approximate Reading Time: <\/span> < 1<\/span> minute<\/span><\/span>

\"girl2\"I’ve been pondering this for some time now.<\/p>\n

It is easier now than ever before in history to get your word out there. This blog is an excellent example. All I need is a little bit of computer knowledge and to have access to one. I don’t need to know the first thing about how any of it works, and so long as I have access to some public space that lets me use their computer (like a library) I don’t need to own anything.<\/p>\n

Anyone with these two qualifications can now broadcast their ideas and opinions to the whole world. I’m not sure that’s necessarily a good thing. Now, I’m absolutely NOT in favour of censorship, but at the same time, I also think that not all opinions are of equal value.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that ‘my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.\u201d<\/p>\n

-Isaac Asimov<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

What if people actually had to know something about the technology they used before they were able to use it?<\/p>\n