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MartaPanellaSecondEssay 4 - 12 Jan 2022 - Main.MartaPanella
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On Memory Loss | | | Overall, the true challenge relies on whether there is an alternative way to shape our relationship with the net and the ultimate impact it has on our memories, both for ourselves and for future generations.
The only possible solution would be to engage in a more proactive way with the net. We would need active technologies, enabling us to evolve from being passive subjects to whom information is delivered through attention-seeking notifications to active users of platforms. | |
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< | In this perspective, technologies should become a support mechanism to help the human brain in those tasks it cannot face on its own, without supplementing it and taking over the existing functionalities. This could be achieved through the personal effort of individuals, combined with the diffusion of technologies that should function more like a library than a political assembly. In this respect, it would be important to allow the personalization of the user's experience (by the user and respecting her privacy), so that it targets her actual needs and doesn't constitute a "fit all and invade every aspect of life" mechanism. This would heighten people's ability to have a more critical approach to what they receive from their online experience and, together with enhanced systems of comparison among different views, this could eventually ameliorate our critical thinking and ultimately lower the polarization of the debate within society as a whole. | >
> | In this perspective, technologies should become a support mechanism to help the human brain in those tasks it cannot face on its own, without supplementing it and taking over the existing functionalities. This could be achieved through the personal effort of individuals, combined with the diffusion of technologies that should function more like a library than a political rally. In this respect, it would be important to allow the personalization of the user's experience (by the user and respecting her privacy), so that it targets her actual needs and doesn't constitute a "fit all and invade every aspect of life" mechanism. This would heighten people's ability to have a more critical approach to what they receive from their online experience and, together with enhanced systems of comparison among different views, this could eventually ameliorate our critical thinking and ultimately lower the polarization of the debate within society as a whole. | | | Assuming that a cerebral transformation has already occurred, these steps should have already been taken some years ago to avoid and prevent permanent effects on humanity as a whole; however, if there still is a possibility to reshape our relationship with the net, we need to remember the power of our brains and take an active role in our activities online. |
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