Thinking about the Future

Write your reactions to any of the ideas about the future presented in this chapter. Chapter 10

Technology has changed the way we do most things today.  One change is the way we send things like letters, resumes, messages via email, and texting instead of calling someone on the phone.  There have been many changes since technology is advancing so fast.  This makes me think that flying cars are just around the corner.  The future is scary to think about, but it is just as interesting.  It would be fun to be able to travel in time to see the future, to see how technology has advanced, and how people communicate with each other.  Machines and computers will eventually take over most people’s jobs, as they have already started doing.  This is the scary to think about; how many people will be out of a job in the future, because a computer took their place?  The future is scary to think about, since companies have already replaced people with machines. W/C 170 

Trusting the Mind

Write an entry that reveals how the mind can and cannot be trusted.

We have learned that trusting the mind is sometimes tricky.  Experiencing with things is how we learn and train our mind.  If you set your alarm to get up at a certain time, your mind lets you know that it is time for you to get out of bed.  You can trust your mind when it comes to things that will be painful and your mind knows this from experience.  Then when your mind makes you think that you can speed down the road, because you are running late and have a good excuse for why you are speeding.  The excuses you use when you get stopped will not keep you from getting a speeding ticket.  Your mind can be deceiving at times and there are times that you can trust your mind.  When there two different decisions going on in your mind think of the outcome of both, then decide which one of the two is the better decision.

Hip-Hop and a Generation

Do you agree with Chang that hip-hop has come to be the way an entire generation sees their world? Does that make it more or less, as the caller suggests, “mainstream”?

 I agree with Chang’s theory that hip-hop has come to be the way an entire generation sees their world.  I am not familiar with hip-hop music, since I don’t find it appealing.  What Chang has in the essay “Stakes Is High” seems that the entire generation has turned to hip-hop to express themselves.  The music changes through time, through the lyrics, and what is happening in the world around them.  Musicians express how they feel through their music.  They use style, politics, wars, colors, anger, and the list can keep going on what these musicians use to share their beliefs.  I feel that this is mainstream, because it has an influence on the people that listen to this style of music.  No matter what kind of music you listen to, the musicians are telling a story or expressing their opinion through their music.