Regarding Technology and How We Think

I never know if you're supposed to capitalized two letter words in a title. I usually don't, but sometimes I do. I'm not sure what my thought process is. I think the rarer the word is (for titles,) the more likely I am to capitilize it. Like I never capitalize words like "to" or "in" but for some reason I paused for a moment and ultimately capitilized "we" above. Isn't the state of grammar education in this country disgusting? I remember constantly being embarrassed in my Russian class because my Russian teacher knew far, far more about grammar (and the English language in general) than any of us native speaker, college students did. Totally nuts.
I'm pretty sure two letter words aren't supposed to be capitalized, but whatever. I'll leave it. I'll call it a stylistic choice. Artists can pull that crap all the time. It's great.

Anyway, this post isn't really about grammar. At least, it wasn't supposed to be. It's about the internet and computers and how the effect education because that is kind of sort of what Turkle's essay entitled "How Computers Change the Way We Think" is about. Whoa! In the PDF, 'We' is capitalized!

Anyway, I am very interested in the ways computers change how we think. However, I know very little about that. I did read one study type thing once where it was mentioned how multitasking is basically destroying our ability to think, and that was semi-related technology and computers, but I don't really remember much of the study itself other than it made me want to quit multi-tasking so much. I did try for like three days, but I couldn't handle it. I HAVE to have like six browser tabs oopen at once. I just do.

Anyway, what I do know a bit about is how computers have changed education. I mean, look at this. I'm 'blogging' for extra credit. I'm taking a class online. I've never even seen my instructor or any of my classmates, at least not that I know of.
And have you noticed any spelling errors in this post? That's because I am borrowing my friend's laptop and she uses internet explorer (eww) which apparently doesn't include a built-in spell check. I hardly even ever learned how to spell because I've just always relied on spell check to do the spelling for me. It's wonderful and terrible!

And do you know what else? It would probably take me about 8 seconds to learn whether or not words like "We" or "Me" should be capitalized in titles. I just have to type it into the Google search. Look. I'll go do it right now just to prove my point. If my computer had a seconds timer readily available, I would even time myself. But I"m too lazy to do that.

Ok. Results. Well, it took a few more than 8 seconds, only because the 'rules' regarding capitalization in titles are annoyingly complicated, not because the technology let me down. Basically, there is no consensus. I hate the English language. Could you imagine trying to learn it from another language? "Oh, well you do this and this. Always. Well, except half of the time. And only when this happens." The rules are such... non rules. It's really frustrating.
Anyway, I lost interest in learning about that. It's too annoying and complicated and inconsistant and really, it hardly even matters. Who cares, as long as it looks like.

Anyway, this was a fun little experiment in learning with the help of Google!