Woah. I found a paradym

so, I was fatefully watching tv the other day, when the football game ended and all of the sudden a show popped on that both presented thought provoking questions but also displayed a paradym shift. The subjuct of this was laughter.

Now the paradym shift that they briefly mentioned was that laughter used to be interpreted as evilness, so laughing was rarly heard. People laughing was not displayed in portraits painting all through this time. I did not catch the time period but the Mona Lisa was one of the solemn picture that was used as evidence of this, as they flashed through them. I found this rather interesting.

The pondering question was that there was this couple who lived a very sad life, and did not laugh (apparently, i don't understand how this was possible) yet they had a baby and around two months old, this baby started to laugh. The question for him was where did this baby learn to laugh. There was studies done on babies blind, deaf, and with lack of proper sensation and all the babies started to laugh at around the same age as the babies who lived with out these conditions. So the questioned remains, is laughter just instictual and as we grow older some people decide to stop doing it? Should we allow stress or pressure distract us from doing something inate from birth?
I just found it interesting.

random thoughts on technology

So ONE of the problems with me is that I have a short term memory and I tend to forget much of what we talked about in class by the time I get onto blog. So i like to take random quotes and expad upon them, so this is exacly what I am going to do for this blog.

"For a list of all the ways technology has failed to improve the quailty of life, please press three." Alice Khan

I came across this poem while researching a debate topic about generally modified foods. Having not done extensive research on this topic before, I had never thought about the veiwpoint of GMO's that they reduce the amount of our experience of the world, as through technology we are manipulating our plants to become negligent to the natural factors of the world. Technology with therefore the manipulation of the world so we do not have to experience it. Now is this actually a bad thing? I don't really have that answer. It depends on the extent to which technology takes us. With the example of the GMO's, think of the advantages we give the farmers. They would be able to have a crop they could readily rely on and a steady income regardless of how much rain fell and when. There would be less fluctuation within the markets of these raw materials and would create a more stable ecomony. Therefore, by us not experiencing the world, technology makes the world easier. ie. here i sit, with my laptop to relay my thoughts to you, my cell phone to coordinate my acitivities, or ask what is due at school tommorrow, access to the internet and millions of webpages full of information. Therefore I believe that whether this manipulation is true or not, technology is going to be devolopped and be usedin our world and soon we will be the generation looking back at when we were in school and we only had two high speed computers, three flat screened tv's and cell phones that only texted and connected to the internet.