Group Members: TJ Fitzpatrick, Gabe Jsinski, and Nick Gamba
The main focus of our group is how Walker Percy believes that technology is ruining the thrill of seeing something for the first time. In our discussion we discussed both sides of the argument. One of our main points was the comparison of our generation and our parents generation. For most of our generation we had technology at the palm of our hands, which made it so much easier to see things on our devices which we felt we may never see in real life. For our parents generation, since they didn’t have the easy access to technology, like we do now, they feel that seeing things first hand are much more exhilarating and real than seeing it on a screen. Technology takes away the mystery and the chance for imagination to overtake young ones minds when it comes to something they have never seen before. Kids will no longer “wonder” what something looks like because the second they have that thought, they can access an image almost immediately. On the other side of this argument, there are things in life that we would never actually get to see if technology was not so advanced. For example, Gabe mentioned the photographed picture of a black hole NASA was able to get. This definitely helps with studies and discoveries of space, but I still feel that it takes away our chance to paint our own mental picture of what we think a black hole truly looks like (Besides just a black circle in space). In the end, I still agree with Percy’s viewpoint, nothing compares to seeing something in person for the first time, with your own eyes.
