Group Presentation: Against the machines

Thanksgiving Day is over and it's time to write my blog again. Before the holiday, the other group in my class performed their book presentation entitled “Against the Machines” by Lee Siegel. They did a nice job in presenting their stuff. From what I understand, the book is all about the world's dependence on the internet. It talks about how living in a virtual world can affect one's lives in different aspects. Ever since the evolution of digital era, pornography has never been the same because of its high-tech utilization of computerized images and permeation of immorality through the internet. The author exposed the adverse impact of the internet usage such as manipulating others by promoting half-fantasy and half-real life world. These are only some of the portions that he sighted and I will not delve more on that. I somewhat disagree because I saw some people who became millionaires through internet usage; they were formerly unemployed individuals who were fired or layed off from their jobs and if not for the succor of the internet, their life would be like a hopeless trash. From my understanding, the author is giving us a warning to be moderate in using the internet because it may “eat” us as a person (which reminds me of what happened to a teen-age girl who committed suicide because of a blogger, who is an internet hoaxer, told her “Life would be better off without you!”).