Reading Response to Birkerts

In my in class essay the point I was trying to make was that while technology has the potential to help people, in acts more as a hinderance. Many people use technology as a distraction. Programs such as MySpace and Facebook keep more people occupied than the classes they have signed up for.

Sven Birkets seems to agree when he says, "The computer, our high-speed, accessing, storing, and sorting tool, appears as a godsend. It increasingly determines what kind of information we are willing to traffic in; if something cannot be written in code and transmitted, it cannot be important." pg.33 paragraph 1

In other words, Birkets believes that people don't value things if they cannot be processed onto a computer. This view adds to my personal opinion because he is saying that people pay more attention to the internet, computers, or technology than to their everyday life.

Birkets adds to my opinion of technology because he applies it to reading, education, and everyday life, not just to a classroom setting.