For this week I chose to read the
novel, Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson. It
was published in 1992, which is older than me but the story is up-to-date, like
it happens nowadays. The story is about technology that we use nowadays so that
means Neal Stephenson is really good at imagine the future world from back then.
Hiro is the protagonist of the story. He is a pizza delivery guy and a
freelance hacker. He has to find a way to protect people from the virus named
“Snow Crash”. Snow Crash is the virus that can hack human brains and make them
mindless in real life.
In the real world, I think social
media is like Snow Crash virus for us because internet sometimes brainwash
people like Snow Crash virus hacks human brains. Some people just believe
anything that is on the internet and social media can spread something very
quickly by people forwarding it, even though, the person who forwarded it to
another person might know the truth or not. The point is people do not know the
fact of the thing they forwarded and they sometimes forwarded them to other
people without thinking and unaware of the results and what will happen later
on. When the news already spread around and everyone already believes what the
internet said, people will no longer figure out the fact of that news, or even
if the new fact come out, most of the people will still believe what they heard
of read at first. That means the information they got from the internet are
already bury deep inside their head and it makes people ignore the truth.
In summary, technology can make the
world moving forward in both good and bad way, depends on what people choose to
do. People need to learn how to use social media in the right way. They need to
learn from their mistakes and think before they share something so we can move
forward and make the world the better place.
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