Analysis of 'Digital Nation'

One aspect of Digital Nation that I particularly enjoyed is its exploration into the dual nature of technology. It showed that technology is severely effecting education, for kids from grade school to college. Some people are trying to incorporate technology into education and some are trying to go back to a simpler system. I liked how the documentary shows that technology has freed us and entrapped us. We have been able to more easily experience the world and interact with people ever since the start of the digital revolution. Everyone can know everything with in a matter of seconds, but it's not real knowledge. People don't bother to memorize things, and without memorization and actual knowledge that people store in their actual brains, they can't make connections. Making an assertive and specific correlation to two different thing is important in creative and logical thought. But that's becoming too much to ask of people because everything they know is only in their mind for a few minutes after they complete a Google search on it.

I think art is becoming more available to the masses, take myself as an example: before I started taking a class on digital manipulation, I never would have considered myself any sort of visual artist (I still don't), But now I can see that it's not so crazy for me to say I have some artistic skill. Of course, when something becomes accessible to more people there are positive and negative consequences. Now there are more artists who can spread their work around and gain a larger audience, but there's also more people who are witlessly filling the world with tasteless dreck. Like me.