Comments on: The world is dumbing down http://joydutta.com/blog/2010/04/20/the-world-is-dumbing-down/ Joy Dutta on technology, photography, motorcycling, aviation and other things Wed, 18 Jan 2012 22:05:46 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 By: James http://joydutta.com/blog/2010/04/20/the-world-is-dumbing-down/comment-page-1/#comment-59003 James Sun, 12 Jun 2011 13:16:45 +0000 http://joydutta.com/blog/?p=993#comment-59003 Hi Joy, I've just started a blog as have found myself slipping into the bad habbits, and trying to get myself out of the same rut as the rest of my generation. Facebook has a lot to answer for. Teaching is no longer the exciting field it once was, why would someone with genuine passion and talent want to turn it to a group of people who are uninspired and unmotivated. At that, being underpaid for the privelage of teaching a mass of people who will devote more attention to their Facebook feeds than further their own development. Education and Society needs to be completely rethought and retaught to be of any benefit. Passion and interest needs to be taught, for people to javascript:jQuery('#commentform').submit();want to educate themselves. Hi Joy, I’ve just started a blog as have found myself slipping into the bad habbits, and trying to get myself out of the same rut as the rest of my generation. Facebook has a lot to answer for. Teaching is no longer the exciting field it once was, why would someone with genuine passion and talent want to turn it to a group of people who are uninspired and unmotivated. At that, being underpaid for the privelage of teaching a mass of people who will devote more attention to their Facebook feeds than further their own development. Education and Society needs to be completely rethought and retaught to be of any benefit. Passion and interest needs to be taught, for people to javascript:jQuery(‘#commentform’).submit();want to educate themselves.

]]> By: paawun http://joydutta.com/blog/2010/04/20/the-world-is-dumbing-down/comment-page-1/#comment-43819 paawun Sun, 09 May 2010 15:34:41 +0000 http://joydutta.com/blog/?p=993#comment-43819 As for the population explosion..it is directly proportional as I have begun to realize to levels of poverty and neglect. Those who can survive on merely nothing, breed and breed and breed (may be mindlessly, or maybe they feel they can find strength in numbers..who knows) because, they don't worry how the kids will live. They find they could survive on next to nothing, and they let the children survive similarly. And when people are born to so much abject poverty, many of their sensitivities are dead. Not in their DNA even I guess. And from generation to generation the survivor gene becomes stronger. Eradicating poverty is the only answer but how is the unanswerable question. A well to do person, worries how he/she will give their children a good quality life. THEY THINK before having each kid, in majority of the cases...but the parasite types, who are used to someone always picking after them...and who have no qualms of using resources earned by anyone else..well they breed. It's a good time pass for them I guess! As for the population explosion..it is directly proportional as I have begun to realize to levels of poverty and neglect. Those who can survive on merely nothing, breed and breed and breed (may be mindlessly, or maybe they feel they can find strength in numbers..who knows) because, they don’t worry how the kids will live. They find they could survive on next to nothing, and they let the children survive similarly. And when people are born to so much abject poverty, many of their sensitivities are dead. Not in their DNA even I guess. And from generation to generation the survivor gene becomes stronger. Eradicating poverty is the only answer but how is the unanswerable question. A well to do person, worries how he/she will give their children a good quality life. THEY THINK before having each kid, in majority of the cases…but the parasite types, who are used to someone always picking after them…and who have no qualms of using resources earned by anyone else..well they breed. It’s a good time pass for them I guess!

]]> By: paawun http://joydutta.com/blog/2010/04/20/the-world-is-dumbing-down/comment-page-1/#comment-43818 paawun Sun, 09 May 2010 15:28:17 +0000 http://joydutta.com/blog/?p=993#comment-43818 This post echoed a lot with how I feel about such things...though I found it a bit depressing too naturally. Wish I could figure out something ..that could be a game changer. A very rigourous, marks driven study curriculum is also not the right answer, as it was in place and it did not survive! So obvioulsy, it worked for some and not for many..but don't know the answer! This post echoed a lot with how I feel about such things…though I found it a bit depressing too naturally. Wish I could figure out something ..that could be a game changer. A very rigourous, marks driven study curriculum is also not the right answer, as it was in place and it did not survive! So obvioulsy, it worked for some and not for many..but don’t know the answer!

]]> By: Lig http://joydutta.com/blog/2010/04/20/the-world-is-dumbing-down/comment-page-1/#comment-43598 Lig Mon, 26 Apr 2010 18:52:45 +0000 http://joydutta.com/blog/?p=993#comment-43598 Totally agree on the situation we have at hand. Got any solutions? Less breeding? Totally agree on the situation we have at hand. Got any solutions? Less breeding?

]]> By: Swetali http://joydutta.com/blog/2010/04/20/the-world-is-dumbing-down/comment-page-1/#comment-43534 Swetali Thu, 22 Apr 2010 12:29:19 +0000 http://joydutta.com/blog/?p=993#comment-43534 I agree with you. World is indeed dumbing down slowly. I haven't seen Idiocracy but whatever i see around in everyday life makes me crazy at times. We do use latest gadgets and technology to the very best and always try to upgrade ourselves to the newest ones wherein you can still survive with the ones sufficient enough to suffice our needs. Just for example yesterday the i was in a meeting for 2 hrs which introduced us to yet another reporting tool used in financial services industry which did the the same as of the previous one but with some extra features so that anyone can use it to design/build client reports. Truly speaking with every enhancement they make, a good amount of thinking is put in it to make it easy to use but actually speaking users have stopped thinking. When we support these users i come across so many clients who just refuse to use any commonsense even to use such user friendly tools. In short, there will always be things to do around in a BETTER way to make it a BETTER place to live in. so don't worry Joy, tipping point won't be reached so soon. Life is still beautiful, Enjoy it! I agree with you. World is indeed dumbing down slowly. I haven’t seen Idiocracy but whatever i see around in everyday life makes me crazy at times.
We do use latest gadgets and technology to the very best and always try to upgrade ourselves to the newest ones wherein you can still survive with the ones sufficient enough to suffice our needs.
Just for example yesterday the i was in a meeting for 2 hrs which introduced us to yet another reporting tool used in financial services industry which did the the same as of the previous one but with some extra features so that anyone can use it to design/build client reports.

Truly speaking with every enhancement they make, a good amount of thinking is put in it to make it easy to use but actually speaking users have stopped thinking. When we support these users i come across so many clients who just refuse to use any commonsense even to use such user friendly tools.

In short, there will always be things to do around in a BETTER way to make it a BETTER place to live in. so don’t worry Joy, tipping point won’t be reached so soon.

Life is still beautiful, Enjoy it!

]]> By: GreyMatter » World 2.0 http://joydutta.com/blog/2010/04/20/the-world-is-dumbing-down/comment-page-1/#comment-43533 GreyMatter » World 2.0 Thu, 22 Apr 2010 11:43:38 +0000 http://joydutta.com/blog/?p=993#comment-43533 [...] finally, a friend – Joy Dutta – posts about the “dumbing down of society” on his blog: Look at the senseless media explosion and the priorities of news consumption by [...] [...] finally, a friend – Joy Dutta – posts about the “dumbing down of society” on his blog: Look at the senseless media explosion and the priorities of news consumption by [...]

]]> By: Kedar Subramanian http://joydutta.com/blog/2010/04/20/the-world-is-dumbing-down/comment-page-1/#comment-43531 Kedar Subramanian Thu, 22 Apr 2010 10:03:03 +0000 http://joydutta.com/blog/?p=993#comment-43531 Though provoking indeed... Well, I think all commercial inventions and innovations have been made with the objective to make life more comfortable... I don't think that necessarily translates into making us more 'dumb'! The Web is acting like a global mind and helping us to learn, interact and have fun. But it can't make us become 'better' individuals which is what I think you wanted to imply in this post... I can't agree with you more that values and ethics are most important today than ever before and that's something which no gadget can ever help us imbibe !! Though provoking indeed… Well, I think all commercial inventions and innovations have been made with the objective to make life more comfortable… I don’t think that necessarily translates into making us more ‘dumb’!

The Web is acting like a global mind and helping us to learn, interact and have fun. But it can’t make us become ‘better’ individuals which is what I think you wanted to imply in this post…

I can’t agree with you more that values and ethics are most important today than ever before and that’s something which no gadget can ever help us imbibe !!

]]> By: therider http://joydutta.com/blog/2010/04/20/the-world-is-dumbing-down/comment-page-1/#comment-43510 therider Wed, 21 Apr 2010 09:20:22 +0000 http://joydutta.com/blog/?p=993#comment-43510 MonkeyTale, interesting news indeed. I would hazard a guess that it was not shown on TV because some bullshit like Letterman or Jay Leno show was on. MonkeyTale, interesting news indeed. I would hazard a guess that it was not shown on TV because some bullshit like Letterman or Jay Leno show was on.

]]> By: therider http://joydutta.com/blog/2010/04/20/the-world-is-dumbing-down/comment-page-1/#comment-43509 therider Wed, 21 Apr 2010 09:15:39 +0000 http://joydutta.com/blog/?p=993#comment-43509 Naveen, technology alone will not do much I think. The awesome technologies we have today are in fact making the new generation lazy. Thanks to google and hi-tech cellphones, learning the hard way is not much appealing to today's students. Add to it the grades inflation, you will find most kids are scoring A's and passing all kinds of entrance exams, but they are not necessarily getting smarter than what we were at their age. Common sense, maturity and the simple concept of stop-and-think is slowly vanishing everywhere. Naveen, technology alone will not do much I think. The awesome technologies we have today are in fact making the new generation lazy. Thanks to google and hi-tech cellphones, learning the hard way is not much appealing to today’s students. Add to it the grades inflation, you will find most kids are scoring A’s and passing all kinds of entrance exams, but they are not necessarily getting smarter than what we were at their age. Common sense, maturity and the simple concept of stop-and-think is slowly vanishing everywhere.

]]> By: MonkeyTale http://joydutta.com/blog/2010/04/20/the-world-is-dumbing-down/comment-page-1/#comment-43507 MonkeyTale Wed, 21 Apr 2010 08:38:14 +0000 http://joydutta.com/blog/?p=993#comment-43507 Great post, thanks for the link. Idiocracy is one of those films that just clicked with me when I saw it. As stated in my post, I am pretty sure dumbing down is happening en masse. What you said about the media ignoring important events but sucking up celebrity piffle is certainly true. The other day I read online about some mysterious radio waves that have been discovered in space - scientists can't fathom out what is causing them, but what is known is that the object generating them is travelling at 4 times the speed of light, thank about that for a moment - possibly using some kind of space warping phenomenon to do this - i.e. like on star trek....this is from the New Scientist: http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn18775-mysterious-radio-waves-emitted-from-nearby-galaxy.html?DCMP=OTC-rss So was this featured on the news on TV? Was there an emergency broadcast interrupting the latest incarnation of a formulaic celebrity show? No, of course not... Great post, thanks for the link.

Idiocracy is one of those films that just clicked with me when I saw it. As stated in my post, I am pretty sure dumbing down is happening en masse.

What you said about the media ignoring important events but sucking up celebrity piffle is certainly true. The other day I read online about some mysterious radio waves that have been discovered in space – scientists can’t fathom out what is causing them, but what is known is that the object generating them is travelling at 4 times the speed of light, thank about that for a moment – possibly using some kind of space warping phenomenon to do this – i.e. like on star trek….this is from the New Scientist:

http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn18775-mysterious-radio-waves-emitted-from-nearby-galaxy.html?DCMP=OTC-rss

So was this featured on the news on TV? Was there an emergency broadcast interrupting the latest incarnation of a formulaic celebrity show? No, of course not…

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