The End of Creationism?

For years now, Facebook and YouTube have been two of the most popular sites on the web. Lately, there's been the addition of Tumblr, Xanga, and LOLCats. The Internet and hope computers began as an amazing thing, in which brilliant students and ambitious adults were creating code and software themselves. They were interactively changing the face of technology and creating new systems and uses for not only themselves, but for everyone else as well.


How people use computers today is entirely different. Instead of creating, putting their minds to use, and developing better, more advanced, and more efficient ways of using technology, people are simply observing and capturing. People find random pictures of cats and create a LOLCat graphic by adding misspelled and stupid sentences. People post their pictures on Facebook and wait for others to comment or like them. People scour other's Tumblr's, Xanga's, and blog's in order to post pictures on their own Tumblr, Xanga, or blog. People post their random thoughts to Twitter and hang on celebrities every thoughts on Twitter. People waste hours "stumbling" on StumbleUpon.com. Users aren't actually doing anything on the Internet, besides create a seemingly never-ending circle of pictures and graphics. There is the illusion of creating, by allowing people to publish their own blogs or Tumblr's, but it's not actually creation. It's simply redistribution of the same ideas and images.

This is probably the same reason studies and researchers claim all the time spent on the Internet by children is dulling their intelligence and making them do worse in school. Where's the Internet headed? Twenty-thousand years from now when future civilizations discover a now-ancient MacBook Pro and see that it's filled with cat images and videos, what will they think?