An equalizing medium, technology as a tool for success and education!

        I found these readings absolutely positively interesting. I have always been fascinated with the psychology of culture itself. Put that together with technology, rhetoric and the advancement of society and societal identification and you have got me hooked. Interestingly enough, I have made the conclusion that because the medium of technology has the potential to be “equalizing” as they state it in the book, we could redefine our whole world off an equal system. Education, if you are able to access technologies and media can be attained at all levels. Now-a-days people are taking online courses, not just online high school education, but diplomas, bachelors, doctorates, and more! If we could figure out a way, to grant opportunity to access the web, the world itself and the sense of community among nations would change drastically; however there are several factors that would make this difficult. One of those being that, though technology is accessible to most, it is not necessarily understandable. In large, a vast majority of the internet is written in English, so we would have to translate what is on it into all kinds of languages. Second, elderly population tends to avoid use of modern media technologies. So, we would have to utilize our rhetorical skills, and create a consumer friendly debate. Since class, race and gender all play a factor into utilizing this medium, we could potentially use it to standardize differences, instead of emphasize on them. After reading this article it is clear the advances that could be made as a culture, nation and essentially world community are vast, but we first need to educate all people on how to use this equalizing medium for education.