Do we know where we are going?

Certainly, the Internet has awarded individuals the access to information, which they may not have been able to easily locate before; it has provided people with a forum to voice their opinions, to create themselves, and in some cases, it has allowed people to recreate their lived reality. But, while technology may be celebrated because of how it has opened the doors to a new world of communication, construction, and exploration, technology has equally opened the doors to a dangerous world of misinformation and miscommunication. The most fundamental danger that the Internet poses may be that people's ability to recreate themselves and their reality ultimately diminishes their realized and lived experiences. Relatively, student's absorption into a technological academic world may sacrifice their experience as students. Technology cannot recreate the academy and provide a connected, personal, and interpersonal experience where ideas are not merely transmitted through perfectly chosen words, but through expressions, eye-contact, and tone.