When you here about all of the ways the internet has changed are lifestyle, its pretty mind boggling. We have heard online cultures from shopping to dating, protests to petitions, hulu, youtube, facebook, twitter, and I remember some pictures of fall out boy in one of the in class speeches. The rate at which the internet is growing, and its ability to reach out to everyone in society is mind boggingly. I have been thinking about this a lot lately though. Is the sci-fi prediction made in WALLY a potential reality? Could one day we become limited to nothing but screen staring, finger typing, robots in human skin? From what I understand about evolution, it is possible for human beings to form a trait where we are born connected to our computers. In Charles Darwin's book The Origin of Species he described evolution as a series of dramatic changes in the world that have lead to how we are now. Traits are past down through generation, so that only the strongest traits survive.
Are we at the point only those born with computer chips in their brains will survive? In the next hundred years, will new born babies have keyboards instead of hands? Will only Homeo sapimacs survive in the new computer age? Will all our knowlegdge of our pasts be stored in a memory chip rather than our frontal lobe? Will we slowly develop earpiecs instead of earlobes? Will we need to recharge rather than sleep? Most importantly, what website can I use to help me find a jobe?
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