Driving Blind

Its a blissful ignorance that is shared amognst those who ride throughtout this city showing little concern and giving less thought to of any people walking about. I have to statistics or any numbers, my right to speak of such a matter, comes from my eyes, as I have seen this problem every day. Each time one goes threw a stop sign they take a chance of hitting, or coming too close, to another. If all stop'd at each sign then these everyday occurences, accidents, and tradigies would not happen. However, for you to ask someone to stop before the sign, to plead to them that stopping within the crosswalk is not good enough, and to ask them to put down their cell and focus on the task at hand--this will most always be met with an automatic defense, argument, and lies. I have been the one to ask this of those who run stop signs, or who speed up after philly stop through signs with people walking there--ucoming up on us to nearly inches and then yell of us being in their way. I have been spit on, cursed at, moved up on, and gotten in my face. For I have not accepted nor have I any tolerance to this world of hit and run, or look out here I come. People are effected everyday from others selfish ways and I can not help but to call it as I see it when I see you put any life in danger. I call upon any to rasie attension to these daily occurencesand to bring about a self evaluation in how we drive.

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GOD BLESS YOU BROTHER

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Fri, 08/08/2008 - 7:42am

GOD BLESS YOU BROTHER

CELL MADNESS

Submitted by Richard Kane in PA (not verified) on Fri, 08/08/2008 - 8:42pm

We are allowing ourselves to be enslaved by the cell and computer screen. There are efforts to get computer screens in the hands of little kids all over the world thinking it will somehow make a better planet. Claiming a child without a screen in his hands, is a deprived child.

Our streets are turning into bloodbaths far more dangerous than trying to avoid a few drunk drivers now and then.

I had a full life where I remember enjoying a walk in the woods and at night lying down looking up at the stars. Something kids today have no experience of.

But as I get old I too, am caught up my life becoming the computer screen far more than chatting with friends. I can stop by the bar on the corner for a drink but the screen is always on and usually on something I am not interested in. So now mostly I stay by my computer screen now and then drinking too much to relax when I get too worked up about what I am looking at or trying to type in. Over the years and centuries a few people said “no” some getting too fanatical. But isn’t those trying to raise hundreds and thousands of dollars maybe more to give screens to hungry kids to live in a world their parents don’t understand, also being too fanatical. A few block from me in real space, not computer space, lived one of the no sayers, John Africa or Vincent Leaphart, but even his admirers are beginning to forget some of what he was about.

Years back there were anarchists conferences that the one’s posted above at the Rotunda, back then some of the participant’s worried about too much technology, but that was in the past.

I disagree with “dogwoods” posting that I am responding to, that someone rushing a stop sign because they are in a hurry, not because they are on the cell, or mad at me for taking too long to deal with the cashier in a line, is part of the problem.

RichardKanePA

Impact of computers

Submitted by Rich Gardner on Fri, 08/08/2008 - 10:50pm

A study conducted by Carol Martin, Pat Dickson, and Francisco Villarruel at the University of Wisconsin-Madison suggests that so long as teachers structure the activity right, there is little cause for concern with young children using computers. They videotaped the social interaction of preschoolers in three activities: dramatic play, lunchtime, and using a personal computer. Surprisingly, they found that interaction between children was highest during computer play. Dramatic play and snacktime were often dominated by more socially outgoing children. In contrast, pairing children for computer activities offered a greater chance for shy children to participate and talk.
NNCC

Whether folks who grow up with computers are better or worse at social interaction is actually a pretty complex question. Looking at how communications technology is used in Third World countries, the results are far from definitive, but:

Daniel Litvin, senior research fellow at Chatham House, where the event was held, said he was sceptical of sweeping claims about any technology. "I am suspicious of any claims that any product will make the world a better place," he said. "However, I have had some of my scepticism dispelled by case studies such as the project in Kenya to use text messages to contact peace activists."
ZDNet

Also, I remember a study done several years ago where every home in a small town was supplied with a computer and internet access and the result was that social interaction actually increased due to the ease of setting up social meetings and get-togethers.

There's a Powerpoint slideshow on the social impact of computers (that obviously works better with a live lecturer) that's helpful in raising lots of good questions.

Whether computers are good or bad for social interaction is far from an open-and-shut case.

Rich Gardner

http://www.prawnworks.net/

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