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- - - - McLuhan
        
        Tetrad
        
        Extends something
        
        What does the medium reverse into if over-extended?
        
        Less beneficial medium overall
        
        Makes something else obsolete (amputation)
        
        What is the thing gained from the medium?
      - = Medium
        
        Technology
        
        Good
        
        Tool for progress
        
        BAD
        
        Tool that is evil or harmful
        
        Neutral
        
        A tool
        
        Singularity (technological advance that changes the path of humanity forever)
        
        Camp 1: Possible
        
        Camp 2: Impossible
        
        Kranzburg's 1st Law: You're all wrong. It's not good, bad or neutral.
        
        Disembodied world (Lightman)
        
        We are not present, technology is not a direct experience
        
        We're all connected on social media, but alone in real life because we are desperately trying to be connected online
        
        Can cause mental health issues
        
        Turkle warns not to use tech as only method of communication
        
        We are present, just in a different way
        
        Google Knowing: knowing by Googling only
        
        This is not real knowledge
        
        Philosophers agree that knowledge comes from practice and experience
        
        1 more item...
        
        This is real knowledge
  - - - Technology develops regardless of society's trends
        
        So why didn't anyone accept...
        
        New keyboard
        
        Deterministic views are flawed
        
        Google glass
    - - tech is driven by society
        
        Edison developed lightbulb according to what society needed
  - - - Active shooters often played video games before real life crime
        
        Minority or majority of players?
    - - Jon Ronson says video games keep us moral by imagining bad things we could do and not doing them, but being able to do them virtually
    - - Teaches delayed gratification (marshmallow experiment)
      - In the classroom?
        
        Helps with learning and having new experiences when paired with tech like VR
        
        Tech that facilitates this learning may be impossible to be provided to everyone
        
        leads to more inequity
- - - - Privacy issues
      - Safety issues?
  - - - Creates social circles
        
        More narrow-minded and fragmented
  - - - Can be much less expensive
      - Less likely to pass or for credit to be accepted
      - Downfall of the traditional university?
        
        Should universities still be around?
      - Lack of campus experience
      - Flexibility of location and time of classes