Luis Bustos
Professor: Rau
English 101 MD
10/27/2014
How Digital Is Better
Digital and print are very different, but both are very
important and helpful for various reasons. Dan Blank explains this in “Why Digital Is Better Than Print” They
both can help you find information that people need for a research or some kind
of work. Some people find things on the internet or on print interesting. Both
digital and print have a lot in common when it comes to be being helpful. Digital
is better.
Digital is not only very helpful, but it is also less
time consuming. “But my iPhone is small
and silent – a stealthy way to consume media” (Blank) is saying that digital is
just easy to use anywhere. Almost
everyone wants to get their work done quicker. In digital people can get a lot
of information from various sources in only a little amount of time. Digital is
only getting better and more helpful to the public.
Digital is also better due to the time it lasts and it
takes less time to share what is going on. “Digital certainly
consumes energy, but the inherent waste is not as evident, as millions of
copies of a single piece of content can be replicated and spread across the
world in moments” (Blank) supports this because Blank is saying that everyone
around the world could know what is going on in a matter of seconds. People
want to be up to date with the news and sports and print isn’t the way for
that. With print people need to wait to find out what has happened in the world
and they still do not find out everything out. With digital everyone can find
out everything and not have to wait a day or two for it.
With digital you have more mobility it is not as annoying
as print. “You easily bump into the person next to you with it;
you find your hands are blackened with ink, and that you could annoy the person
next to you with the constant shuffling sound of the pages” (Blank) shows how
print isn’t as good as digital. Print also takes up more space that digital and
gets on the way sometimes. People cannot put print in their pocket and keep it
there for a while. Everyone can take
digital anywhere they want and not have to read it right at the moment.
Almost everyone
has had to search for something whether it was on print or digital. Currently
people mainly use digital. Similar information can be found on both digital and
print, but digital goes right to the point, unlike print which people have to
look into to find what they are looking for. No matter which one you use you will find out about the same
things, it’s just the time it takes is different. Digital is much more helpful
and it takes less time to find what people are looking for.
Blank, Dan. “Why Digital Is Better Than Print.” I
Feel Fine: How I Learned To Stop Worrying and Love The Web. danblank.com.
n. p. 5 August 2000. web. October 29, 2014
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Ashley Professor Rau ENG-101 MD
ReplyDeleteLuis’s Blog
Like I you agree with digital being the overall better source of academic help. You make an interesting point about digital being more helpful. You explain it well by saying, “Almost everyone wants to get their work done quicker”. You are explaining how people are trying to find a way to spend less time on one project and jump to the next. We college students know what it is like to have projects pile up. We have to jump from one thing to the next. Finding out information from the web is a lot quicker than finding a textbook or even a professor that can help us out.
All of us college students are all very of procrastinating. So when we can spend less time gathering the information and getting our work done we will take the quicker option. People who had to rely on print were pretty much stuck finding their resources to create the work. They had to spend more time sifting through books just to find the exact thing that they need. Now that digital has taken over all we need to do is whip out our phones and do a quick good search. Granted we still sift through a lot of unnecessary websites, but we find what we are looking for faster than the college students of the past. I’m not saying the digital makes us lazy, or gives in to procrastinating, but it does help those who are short on time get everything they need done on time. Even those who are great with time management would rather spend less time working on their projects and move on from it. Digital has made us all more efficient.