I squirm and swear under my breath whenever older people tell us that we have it easy. It may be true that we can access all the information we may need by a single mouse click but the laws of life will never make anything easier (not forever, at least). The fact is when you can produce something faster and easier, you're expected to produce more. In our case, it's "work".
My parents would tell me that there was once a time when googling was unheard of and libraries were still the first choice source for info. They failed to tell me how the situation was back then though: the ratio of students to in-demand books, how detailed their reports had to be and what else they had to do at the same time. Googling is a double-edged sword. You can find information faster but you'll be expected to have more information or find out more information about other things. We now have to do so much stuff at the same time, the oldies had to coin the term "multi-tasking" to keep up. It seems that old expressions such as "nagsusunog ng kilay" and "hitting the books" can't accurately describe the modern student anymore.
Think about it. We know so much stuff that our parents haven't even heard of even if those things existed before and during their time as students. Man. The modern search engine plays an important part in this phenomenon. In September of 1990, the first search engine, Archie (a play on the word archive) was born. It didn't have the indexing capability that we enjoy with our current search engines. You had to know the exact file name to access the document. Unbelievable, I know.
All this technology available and the Internet is amazing but we really shouldn't be surprised anymore. Heck, Mark Twain conceptualized the Internet in 1898, the year of our independence from Spain. With every astonishing achievement in technology comes a challenge to maximize our output and that's something that will go on until the world ends via zombie apocalypse.
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| I'm ready for that too. Wacky Torres |
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