Creative/Critical Thinking
By eileenleyva
@eileenleyva (27555)
Philippines
November 28, 2019 1:49pm CST
Never was technology more rapid than in the past quarter of a century. I remember my daughter as a first grader showing me her first digital print of an artwork. Wow, I thought, that is something I do not know how to do. And my daughter grew up well and good in the internet stuff. I, the mother, became the forever tutee, in this computer world.
But don't look now, fast-paced the world may be, yet there's that most important part that technology can't master - the creative/critical thinking aspect necessary in real life.
Thus, a clamor now for liberal arts. Ehem Ehem. All the work I've been pushing in mylot and other sites have not gone to waste. Ha ha
A host of experts are arguing that liberal arts majors are about to make a major rebound.
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@rsa101 (40946)
• Philippines
29 Nov 19
I feel like I was born ready to face this technology and appreciates it very much now and I could never imagine myself doing office work manually recording/writing things. But technology has hasten up many things in life. Though I know there are some bad effects on the youth of today who were literally born in the middle of this technology. I am now seeing the emergence of many who are becoming more prone to depression. I do not know the link between the two but I know many are affected now than before.
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@eileenleyva (27555)
• Philippines
29 Nov 19
Contrary to you, I wasn't born ready for the technology. Perhaps my brain's refusal to conglomerate the terminologies such as reboot, refresh, adobe, etcetera, come from a stubborn stance to keep propriety. For example, the words in text messages were corrupted. The sentence structure and the phrases were reduced to baroque lingo.
I was shocked.
To this day, I have not forgiven the cellphone and would never romance the texting thing.
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@rsa101 (40946)
• Philippines
29 Nov 19
@eileenleyva I can relate to that. The language has been shortened for the machine to understand what we humans want. If you are into computer programming you will more of what you have described above.
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@eileenleyva (27555)
• Philippines
29 Nov 19
@rsa101 I know, the computer has taken over. In first world countries, there isn't paper money any longer, just a card for all transactions.
My regret though is that the youth of the eight billion population will never resort back to the good and proper language. It is as if their worlds are just cues which leaves no bearing on human communication.
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@Nakitakona (59987)
• Philippines
29 Nov 19
A technology could do that once the computer or the so-called artificial intelligence.
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@eileenleyva (27555)
• Philippines
29 Nov 19
@Nakitakona That is true. Just one thing - the soul resides in the mind and the mind cannot be replaced. That is why the intelligence is called artificial - with a false connotation in the terminology.
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@Nakitakona (59987)
• Philippines
30 Nov 19
@eileenleyva You're right. The intelligence of man is virtually transferred to the computer thru a program designed by man.
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@Nakitakona (59987)
• Philippines
29 Nov 19
@eileenleyva AI or artificial intelligence is already taking the role of a human being.
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@LindaOHio (222222)
• United States
28 Nov 19
Technology certainly has taken over. Creative thinking must be preserved
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@eileenleyva (27555)
• Philippines
29 Nov 19
And yet remains in man the poet despite the digital programs. Technology can never write a poem.
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@a_jerobon (2317)
• Eldoret, Kenya
28 Nov 19
It is so true that technology has deprived the younger generation of critical and creative thinking. The return of liberal arts major will be great.
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@eileenleyva (27555)
• Philippines
28 Nov 19
Technology is a wonderful thing. But with the social media free to indulge in, with anyone staying anonymous through avatars, the internet has become a thrash venue of shallow and inutile minds.
Thus the birth and proliferation of fake news. With that - the moral or ethical decadence.
To everything, there is a saturation point. Here comes one for the internet.
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@eileenleyva (27555)
• Philippines
29 Nov 19
It is.
From Bionic Man/Woman, and The Knight Rider (or KITT), technology, indeed has come a long way.
Oh, I talk to my car but my Black Knight does not talk back.
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@florelway (23339)
• Cagayan De Oro, Philippines
28 Nov 19
Ehem ehem too. Liberal arts students are not molded to become robots.
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@eileenleyva (27555)
• Philippines
29 Nov 19
Yay. Yay. That's most true. Ha ha. We were trained to think - to stretch the mind to far beyond the infinite universe if we can. The long hours at the library disciplined the mind.
Yes - technology will never make robots out of Liberal Arts students!
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@florelway (23339)
• Cagayan De Oro, Philippines
29 Nov 19
@eileenleyva agree to the max. Did you know that I really wanted to take up Foreign Service but I didn't like to go to that school which offered it, and my cousin advised me to take up Liberal Arts as a preparatory course as there will be more options after that.
We have well rounded personalities.
