Hi Jacob.
Access to information is a good point, though one interesting thing I've
noticed is that, perhaps partly because of those abuses of power you
mention, people do not believe technological information sharing is
legitimate.
For example,my mum was recently complaining over the fact that instead of
primary school children being given physical story books, they were directed
to the books online to read with their computers, tablets etc. We're not
talking about blind or vi children here, just sighted children in normal
schools of about 5 or 6.
My mum believed that this was bad, that the kids were missing out and that
it would discourage say a parent reading the story book together with their
child. I however disagreed, (indeed a friend of mine already reads to his
daughter off his kindle). Sinse just because you change the mode of
outputting the information, electronically as apposed to a book that doesn't
change a person's relationship to that information. yes, bad parents will
probably say "go to your room and read your school books on your computer
and don't bother me" but how is this different to bad parents saying the
same of a physical book?
I also agree Wikipedia is great, particularly if you just want some random
information, although I do one legitimate concern is that when information
is so readily available, will people's skills at assimilating, remembering
and drawing conclusions from that informationn, though interestingly enough
this is an area where computer games, especially the complex ones like King
of Dragon pass can help as effectively a mental workout for the information
processing and memorization centers of the brain, provided of course the
games are designed so as to be challenging rather than just repetition.
I do remember hearing something about the Golf thing you mention, though one
quite interesting possible use would be blind accessible golf, sinse if you
couldget not only course information but positional information about the
ball and your stick, a blind person could play golf quite efficiently with
the same informational advantages of someone with working eyeballs.
Indeed, I wonder if in the future we'll see similar access to a number of
sports, although having the word "access" in front will mean such things
don't get developed that soon.
I also wonder if eventually we'll start to see the development of new
sports, especially with the analogue control methods. I already know there
are world championships of dance dance revolution, though.
Beware the Grue!
Dark.
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