Thursday, 8 January 2015

An article on language change

This article was published on the 5th January 2015. 3 days ago and there is still news about how technology is changing are language and therefore how we think about the world around us! It talks about how "to google" became a verb and what effect that had on how we think like how easy it is now for solving problems and how it has govern us a "transactive memory", which means the art of storing information in the people around us! It gives an argument that is dramatically changes how we achieve things due to that fact we can rely on googling to tell us the answer!

There is also something called "uberiszing", which is confusing to understand by as this article puts it: "it has taken the general meaning of disrupting any industry through the use of technology to circumvent unnecessary bureaucracy and legislation" so basically industry is modernising to the time. There are conflictions of this is about is this true? Does industry need to change to catch up with the time? Also, as the article point out: "As a new term, it is an interesting example however of how a term that was supposed to have a specific meaning has been turned into something completely different through popular usage."

It fonally goes onto to talk about change and how in 2005, these new terms would have been nonsence to the people on the time but now context has changed and language is fastly changing with it.

Link: http://theconversation.com/how-technology-is-changing-language-and-the-way-we-think-about-the-world-35856

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