Anyone can find information on another person, even if that person wants to maintain his or her own privacy. However, it seems as if it impossible to protects these rights of privacy because of the easy access of information through use of the Internet. Other areas that Birkerts says will suffer include language and history. He fears that language will become simplified and deteriorate in everyday use, and that history and literature will become distorted in a need to be brief and attention-getting. I agree that, on the Internet, especially with Email, language has become more simplified.
People try to get their points across in the fewest amount of words possible.
Structure and spelling become of little importance. My fears concerning history and literature are that important facts will be lost in transition in a need to be interesting and concise. On the whole, I think that Birkerts' vision is a bit extreme. We should not fear what the future holds concerning technology, as long as we hold onto what is valuable to us as a society. I think the benefits of computers are reasons enough to be excited about other possibilities.