Take two

Well maybe I got a little carried away in my last blog entry. The Internet is an amazing invention that is tremendously useful for connecting people and as a source for information. Even the new speech recognition technologies that Nuance and other companies are developing are good for writing. They allow people with disabilities, who can’t write by hand, to be able to write. However, I do believe that the new trend of communicating with others as quickly as possible via text or instant message is damaging the quality of writing as a whole. However, if school systems can keep up with the technological advancement, the problem will be limited.
Moving on… There have been some very interesting readings assigned this week. I can not say that I completely agree with Kuhn’s theory of paradigm shifts. I think scientific revolutions are mostly based on the information scientists have available. I believe the rate of scientific discovery has sped up over time, and will continue to do so. In today’s modern world, scientists have an abundance of accessible information. Therefore scientific advancement is growing at an exponential rate.