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Book reading experience and the ultimate technology

The computer is just a feeble attempt of humankind to replicate the workings of a unique invention,

while science is an attempt to understand the craftsmanship of the greatest masterpiece – Nature.

As we all know, scientists can only replicate carbon-based life forms. They cannot literally make from

out of thin air any genetic material. They rely on raw materials from resources provided by nature. It

[5]  is just like trying to simulate the functions of the human brain by inventing the computer. The brain

is the fastest and most powerful multimedia computer that exists in the present. It is organic, self

upgrading and has high articulation. The computer, on the other hand, cannot help itself without the

intervention of humans.

A computer hooked to the internet provides access to all the knowledge of humanity. However, there

[10]  is a downside about this convenience. It deprives the human brain the necessary thinking skills and

training for data hunting and information processing. A student today only needs to access the internet

to do research homework. However, the learning experience is defeated since it is not the student who

researches the data needed for the school homework but the web browser. So where is the selective

learning process?

[15]  If carrying books is so tiresome, mobile devices like smart phones will do the trick. All a student has to

do is search in a web browser for the Intext free eBook reader, for example, and then hit enter. While

there are lots of commercially available eBooks being offered out there, education must not be so

costly. That’s why there are millions of electronic books downloadable all over the world for free.

Reading books, either printed or the electronic version, provides the learner the essential mental

[20]  training for data hunting, logical reasoning for information processing and the uncanny ability to

differentiate truth from lies, right from wrong, facts from fallacy, real from a hoax and the appropriate

from the inappropriate.

In the process of reading a book, a learner elevates the capacity of the human brain for stimulation of

the senses by indexing information for instant recall and further developing comprehension through

[25]  mental processing of data.

Nature is the “Ultimate Technology” and the human brain is one of its most powerful inventions. We

are zillions of years more advanced as compared to our technology. However, digital media such as

e-texts can surely serve as invaluable and easy to access reading material. Thus, let’s take advantage of

this technology to the fullest by engaging in reading extensively in order to enhance our natural skills

and talents.

JOEFEL CAGAMPANG http://www.goarticles.com 

Book reading experience and the ultimate technology

The computer is just a feeble attempt of humankind to replicate the workings of a unique invention,

while science is an attempt to understand the craftsmanship of the greatest masterpiece – Nature.

As we all know, scientists can only replicate carbon-based life forms. They cannot literally make from

out of thin air any genetic material. They rely on raw materials from resources provided by nature. It

[5]  is just like trying to simulate the functions of the human brain by inventing the computer. The brain

is the fastest and most powerful multimedia computer that exists in the present. It is organic, self

upgrading and has high articulation. The computer, on the other hand, cannot help itself without the

intervention of humans.

A computer hooked to the internet provides access to all the knowledge of humanity. However, there

[10]  is a downside about this convenience. It deprives the human brain the necessary thinking skills and

training for data hunting and information processing. A student today only needs to access the internet

to do research homework. However, the learning experience is defeated since it is not the student who

researches the data needed for the school homework but the web browser. So where is the selective

learning process?

[15]  If carrying books is so tiresome, mobile devices like smart phones will do the trick. All a student has to

do is search in a web browser for the Intext free eBook reader, for example, and then hit enter. While

there are lots of commercially available eBooks being offered out there, education must not be so

costly. That’s why there are millions of electronic books downloadable all over the world for free.

Reading books, either printed or the electronic version, provides the learner the essential mental

[20]  training for data hunting, logical reasoning for information processing and the uncanny ability to

differentiate truth from lies, right from wrong, facts from fallacy, real from a hoax and the appropriate

from the inappropriate.

In the process of reading a book, a learner elevates the capacity of the human brain for stimulation of

the senses by indexing information for instant recall and further developing comprehension through

[25]  mental processing of data.

Nature is the “Ultimate Technology” and the human brain is one of its most powerful inventions. We

are zillions of years more advanced as compared to our technology. However, digital media such as

e-texts can surely serve as invaluable and easy to access reading material. Thus, let’s take advantage of

this technology to the fullest by engaging in reading extensively in order to enhance our natural skills

and talents.

JOEFEL CAGAMPANG http://www.goarticles.com 

Book reading experience and the ultimate technology

The computer is just a feeble attempt of humankind to replicate the workings of a unique invention,

while science is an attempt to understand the craftsmanship of the greatest masterpiece – Nature.

As we all know, scientists can only replicate carbon-based life forms. They cannot literally make from

out of thin air any genetic material. They rely on raw materials from resources provided by nature. It

[5]  is just like trying to simulate the functions of the human brain by inventing the computer. The brain

is the fastest and most powerful multimedia computer that exists in the present. It is organic, self

upgrading and has high articulation. The computer, on the other hand, cannot help itself without the

intervention of humans.

A computer hooked to the internet provides access to all the knowledge of humanity. However, there

[10]  is a downside about this convenience. It deprives the human brain the necessary thinking skills and

training for data hunting and information processing. A student today only needs to access the internet

to do research homework. However, the learning experience is defeated since it is not the student who

researches the data needed for the school homework but the web browser. So where is the selective

learning process?

[15]  If carrying books is so tiresome, mobile devices like smart phones will do the trick. All a student has to

do is search in a web browser for the Intext free eBook reader, for example, and then hit enter. While

there are lots of commercially available eBooks being offered out there, education must not be so

costly. That’s why there are millions of electronic books downloadable all over the world for free.

Reading books, either printed or the electronic version, provides the learner the essential mental

[20]  training for data hunting, logical reasoning for information processing and the uncanny ability to

differentiate truth from lies, right from wrong, facts from fallacy, real from a hoax and the appropriate

from the inappropriate.

In the process of reading a book, a learner elevates the capacity of the human brain for stimulation of

the senses by indexing information for instant recall and further developing comprehension through

[25]  mental processing of data.

Nature is the “Ultimate Technology” and the human brain is one of its most powerful inventions. We

are zillions of years more advanced as compared to our technology. However, digital media such as

e-texts can surely serve as invaluable and easy to access reading material. Thus, let’s take advantage of

this technology to the fullest by engaging in reading extensively in order to enhance our natural skills

and talents.

JOEFEL CAGAMPANG http://www.goarticles.com 

  Germans make wonderful beer. Yet the productivity of the German beer industry is only 43 percent that of the U.S. beer industry. Meanwhile, the German metalworking and steel industries are equal in productivity to their American counterparts. Since the Germans are evidently capable of organizing industries well, why can’t they do so when it comes to beer?

  It turns out that the German beer industry suffers from small-scale production. There are a thousand tiny beer companies in Germany, shielded from competition with one another because each German brewery has virtually a local monopoly, and they are also shielded from competition with imports. The United States has 67 major beer breweries, producing 23 billion liters of beer per year. All of Germany’s 1,000 breweries combined produce only half as much. Thus the average U.S. brewery produces 31 times more beer than the average German brewery.

  This fact results from local tastes and German government policies. German beer drinkers are fiercely loyal to their local brand, so there are no national brands in Germany analogous to our Budweiser, Miller, or Coors. Instead, most German beer is consumed within 30 miles of the factory where it is brewed. Therefore, the German beer industry cannot profit from economies of scale. In the beer business, as in other businesses, production costs decrease greatly with scale. The bigger the refrigerating unit for making beer, and the longer the assembly line for filling bottles with beer, the lower the cost of manufacturing beer. Those tiny German beer companies are relatively inefficient. There’s no competition; there are just a thousand local monopolies.

  The local beer loyalties of individual German drinkers are reinforced by German laws that make it hard for foreign beers to compete in the German market. The German government has so-called beer purity laws that specify exactly what can go into beer. Not surprisingly, those government purity specifications are based on what German breweries put into beer, and not what American, French, and Swedish breweries like to put into beer. Because of those laws, not much foreign beer gets exported to Germany, and because of inefficiency and high prices much less of that wonderful German beer than you would otherwise expect gets sold abroad. (Before you object that German Löwenbräu beer is widely available in the United States, please read the label on the next bottle of Löwenbräu that you drink here: it’s not produced in Germany but in North America, under license, in big factories with North American productivities and efficiencies of scale).

(Diamond, J. ,2005. Guns, Germs, and Steel. New York: Norton.)

  Germans make wonderful beer. Yet the productivity of the German beer industry is only 43 percent that of the U.S. beer industry. Meanwhile, the German metalworking and steel industries are equal in productivity to their American counterparts. Since the Germans are evidently capable of organizing industries well, why can’t they do so when it comes to beer?

  It turns out that the German beer industry suffers from small-scale production. There are a thousand tiny beer companies in Germany, shielded from competition with one another because each German brewery has virtually a local monopoly, and they are also shielded from competition with imports. The United States has 67 major beer breweries, producing 23 billion liters of beer per year. All of Germany’s 1,000 breweries combined produce only half as much. Thus the average U.S. brewery produces 31 times more beer than the average German brewery.

  This fact results from local tastes and German government policies. German beer drinkers are fiercely loyal to their local brand, so there are no national brands in Germany analogous to our Budweiser, Miller, or Coors. Instead, most German beer is consumed within 30 miles of the factory where it is brewed. Therefore, the German beer industry cannot profit from economies of scale. In the beer business, as in other businesses, production costs decrease greatly with scale. The bigger the refrigerating unit for making beer, and the longer the assembly line for filling bottles with beer, the lower the cost of manufacturing beer. Those tiny German beer companies are relatively inefficient. There’s no competition; there are just a thousand local monopolies.

  The local beer loyalties of individual German drinkers are reinforced by German laws that make it hard for foreign beers to compete in the German market. The German government has so-called beer purity laws that specify exactly what can go into beer. Not surprisingly, those government purity specifications are based on what German breweries put into beer, and not what American, French, and Swedish breweries like to put into beer. Because of those laws, not much foreign beer gets exported to Germany, and because of inefficiency and high prices much less of that wonderful German beer than you would otherwise expect gets sold abroad. (Before you object that German Löwenbräu beer is widely available in the United States, please read the label on the next bottle of Löwenbräu that you drink here: it’s not produced in Germany but in North America, under license, in big factories with North American productivities and efficiencies of scale).

(Diamond, J. ,2005. Guns, Germs, and Steel. New York: Norton.)

  Germans make wonderful beer. Yet the productivity of the German beer industry is only 43 percent that of the U.S. beer industry. Meanwhile, the German metalworking and steel industries are equal in productivity to their American counterparts. Since the Germans are evidently capable of organizing industries well, why can’t they do so when it comes to beer?

  It turns out that the German beer industry suffers from small-scale production. There are a thousand tiny beer companies in Germany, shielded from competition with one another because each German brewery has virtually a local monopoly, and they are also shielded from competition with imports. The United States has 67 major beer breweries, producing 23 billion liters of beer per year. All of Germany’s 1,000 breweries combined produce only half as much. Thus the average U.S. brewery produces 31 times more beer than the average German brewery.

  This fact results from local tastes and German government policies. German beer drinkers are fiercely loyal to their local brand, so there are no national brands in Germany analogous to our Budweiser, Miller, or Coors. Instead, most German beer is consumed within 30 miles of the factory where it is brewed. Therefore, the German beer industry cannot profit from economies of scale. In the beer business, as in other businesses, production costs decrease greatly with scale. The bigger the refrigerating unit for making beer, and the longer the assembly line for filling bottles with beer, the lower the cost of manufacturing beer. Those tiny German beer companies are relatively inefficient. There’s no competition; there are just a thousand local monopolies.

  The local beer loyalties of individual German drinkers are reinforced by German laws that make it hard for foreign beers to compete in the German market. The German government has so-called beer purity laws that specify exactly what can go into beer. Not surprisingly, those government purity specifications are based on what German breweries put into beer, and not what American, French, and Swedish breweries like to put into beer. Because of those laws, not much foreign beer gets exported to Germany, and because of inefficiency and high prices much less of that wonderful German beer than you would otherwise expect gets sold abroad. (Before you object that German Löwenbräu beer is widely available in the United States, please read the label on the next bottle of Löwenbräu that you drink here: it’s not produced in Germany but in North America, under license, in big factories with North American productivities and efficiencies of scale).

(Diamond, J. ,2005. Guns, Germs, and Steel. New York: Norton.)