Philosophy class has really got me thinking about technology these days. For the first time in human history, we have access to mass amounts of information instantly in our own homes and, provided legacy file formats persist, future generations will have a more information about this generation than any other. We're so "connected" all of the time ( Read more... )

K, so I'm currently completing a philosophy course on Popular Culture and pretty much all of it is an analysis of Popular Culture as Mass Culture and Mass Culture leading to a "Herd Mentality" where people are nothing more than pawns of the Culture Industry. My current assignment, a paper on the meaning of "Knowledge is Power", is driving me to the ( Read more... )