“The mind is to the brain as a computer program is to the hardware of the computer on which it runs.” (Malafouris 26)<\/p>\n
“Besides, you don’t have to sell stuff you download. You can invent stuff and print that.” (Doctorow 135)<\/p>\n
“He put nine golf balls, a ping pong ball, and another nine golf balls in the machines input hopper. Two and a third seconds later, eighty-one M&M’s dropped into the output hopper.” (Doctorow 137)<\/p>\n
During my reading of “Makers” and “How Things Change the Mind,” I found one similar message throughout both the texts. This is the way computers process thoughts and the world, compared to how humans do. Last week I looked at how the input of commands given from a human to the 3D-Printers worked. The computer does most of the thinking so that we do not have to. This was making me wonder how this affects our knowledge. Have our minds been evolving with the evolution of technology itself? Or have our minds been “dumbed down,” because the technology is doing all the work for us?<\/p>\n
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