While reading Rushkoff’s work, I found myself agreeing with quite a few things that he brought up. In chapter 4, he talked about complexity (or lack of). I found this chapter the most interesting because his ideas seem to resonate with me. Rushkoff talked about how the digitial technology that we use has no grey area; it’s all black and white. The technology that we utilize can only make decisions that are right or wrong, ethical choices cannot be included. This makes me question my faith in digital technologies. How can something that can only choose one of two choices account for unexpected circumstances? It simply can’t. Technology only does what it’s programmer has told it to do. So, why don’t programmers program technology to have a grey area? Why can’t there be a number in the programming that suggests a neutral state? I feel that the answer lies somewhere between caring and not caring.
Rushkoff talks about how the pursuit of information has become less of a pursuit and more of an exact route to the answer in question. He says that we don’t have to research an entire topic to find the answer we’re looking for thanks to search engines and the Internet. I think this concept is pretty amazing and greatly related to the idea that technology has no grey area. Since technology has no grey area, our society is forming less of one. We are slowly becoming either right or wrong, with no circumstances allowed. We no longer want to know things simply to know them, we rather want to find the answer we’re looking for and move on. We no longer need to research because we simply don’t care. We want the answers we want and don’t want to deal with the stuff in between. So, bye bye grey area. Society no longer needs you since we rely so much on technology. #sarcasmtothemax