Richard Miller

Richard Miller describes how the world should dream. He focuses on technology today, such as having our laptops. He mentions to his audience that having a library is useless because everything we use at a library is on our hand held computers. To prove his point further, he explains the differences between incremental and fundamental. Incremental would be using our computers on a daily basis while fundamental represents a library. He feels the technology with computers is a better way of learning. Between typed documents and educational films, why wouldn’t a person use a computer? To support his answer on why he feels learning with a computer is more useful, he mentions an article he had written in the response of the Virginia Tech killings. Visually, he showed his audience the readable text and emotional pictures all in one sitting. He also had done a Martin Luther King document that included text, images, and even films. The examples of imagery put an effect on the audience. Resources needed for a certain person is all on one page on the internet; while a library contains endless amounts of books.

Miller sees the internet as a way of showing a person’s dream to the public. Rather than hiding the idea of a dream, the concept of the dream is shared with others. Or even when it comes to learning about another person’s story, the internet allows us to dig deeper and see the backstage of how a certain story was produced. In books we can only read and see images on a certain story, but the internet can contain a film of how the certain story was even thought of. Miller strongly encourages people to take how we can learn from the internet source of technology seriously.