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Starter: from memory, draw a map of your route to school, with as much detail as possible (street names, places, landmarks etc). What do you know? What questions does this raise for you?
Starter: from memory, draw a map of your route to school, with as much detail as possible (street names, places, landmarks etc). What do you know? What questions does this raise for you?
Now plot the route on your favourite route planning app. Compare & contrast! What questions does this raise for you?
Now plot the route on your favourite route planning app. Compare & contrast! What questions does this raise for you?
How has technology had an impact on collective memory and how knowledge is preserved? Justify using both evidence from the text and personal examples if at all possible.
The People Who Have To Remember 25,000 Streets
The People Who Have To Remember 25,000 Streets
Excerpt from Sapiens
One of history’s few iron laws is that luxuries tend to become necessities and to spawn new obligations. Once people get used to a certain luxury, they take it for granted. Then they begin to count on it. Finally they reach a point where they can’t live without it…. Over the last few decades, we have invented countless time-saving devices that are supposed to make life more relaxed – washing machines, vacuum cleaners, dishwashers, telephones, mobile phones, computers, email. Previously it took a lot of work to write a letter, address and stamp an envelope, and take it to the mailbox. It took days or weeks, maybe even months, to get a reply. Nowadays I can dash off an email, send it halfway around the globe, and (if my addressee is online) receive a reply a minute later. I’ve saved all that trouble and time, but do I live a more relaxed life? Sadly not.Back in the snail-mail era, people usually only wrote letters when they had something important to relate. Rather than writing the first thing that came into their heads, they considered carefully what they wanted to say and how to phrase it. They expected to receive a similarly considered answer. Most people wrote and received no more than a handful of letters a month and seldom felt compelled to reply immediately. Today I receive dozens of emails each day, all from people who expect a prompt reply. We thought we were saving time; instead we revved up the treadmill of life to ten times its former speed and made our days more anxious and agitated.3. In what sense, if any, can a machine be said to know something?
PLENARY: Are humans the only knowers?
PLENARY: Are humans the only knowers?
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