Varied Responses for this week’s blogs

The Library of Babel post was generally more well-liked than the Garden. In a strange way, it seems that infinite books are easier to handle than infinite futures. More of our class responded to the Babel post as well which made it hard to analyze statements on both topics. However, some interesting statements for each were included.

“So is the bottom line just a mere stack-up of recollections made by others, with the finder being lead to believe that what was put before them, concluded before them, is rightfully true? I mean what, our train of thought is … if it’s in a book, it’s right. Right?”
-Josh

”I think this idea correlates with the idea that the internet is an absolute amount of space where we believe holds much of anything we need to know or find. If we ever need an answer to a question, have a wondering, or simply just need entertainment; it is a melting pot for all of this information.”
-jnentwic

“Eerily I find the writing of the Garden to be most interesting and meaningful to the present situation of things with the internet and the consumption of media and information.”
-Jonathan

“The way I interpreted this was that no one, ever believed that there were limits on anything, not even the most extreme, which is time. Time is just an allusion, which we choose as human beings to but a cap over.”
-jnentwic

We came up with some questions which we think will stimulate class discussion:

How do you feel that the infinite number of futures parallels to the Internet and today’s technology?

The Babel story talks about the failures of those who continue to seek knowledge. Do you see this as a failure?

Other than the future, do you honestly believe that EVERYTHING is on the Internet?

Only time will tell if the Internet really is like the Room of Requirement.
All I know is that we’d like to think so.

Mischief Managed. (:

About Elise

I'm a Junior at WVU. I'm going for two degrees at once: Multidisciplinary Studies (minors in Political Science, Sociology, and Leadership Studies) and English. I'll probably go to Grad School for English. I work as a Copy Editor for The Daily Athenaeum. I'm open, I'm liberal, and I'm easy to talk to. I believe in love, in hard work, and in change, but I'm firmly grounded in my beliefs. I don't judge; nobody is perfect and I'm far from it. I'm a small-town girl with a big-city heart, and you'll never know me completely.

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