Answering the question: Are people becoming less emotionally reachable? I believe so because of the amount of distractions that are on the internet. For instance, these days I think it would be easier to read a physical paper than a digital paper because of the amount of distractions that are on a page. As opposed to advertisements on the side, there are links intertwined with the words of the story that make it difficult to get through a whole article successfully. In this generation, we hear and see so many things that it is hard to process them and react to them emotionally. Just like the ticker at the bottom of a news broadcast or a sportscenter episode, information goes by in a flash and allow us to jump from story to story. The pace of our brain jumping from one thing to another discourages us from processing one thing thoroughly.
On the subject of the killing of Bin Laden, I feel that the day he masterminded the terrorist attacks on America and any other plots, he lost his rights as a human. How do you kill thousands of people, let alone one, and consider yourself a human being? In the same breath, I feel that we shouldn't celebrate the death of him, but be pleased that justice was served for the victims, though all of those people should be living and breathing today. Also, Bin Laden was not the only terrorist mastermind, and unfortunately wont be the last.
Professor Dean's statement that we don't need memory because everything is online runs parallel with my thoughts in my previous post about the internet being our second brain.
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