Dear Sophie

Google Chrome came out with a new commercial to promote their software. With all the talk of technology and the way if effects lives in class tonight it reminded me of some commercials that I've seen recently. What intrigued me the most about this was how it was basically making a digital scrapbook of a child's life.  The use of Google Chrome in replace of a traditional aspect of recording events, such as scrapbooking and old-school VHS home videos, is just another way that technology is taking over. Part of this that really interests me is how with having so much invested digitally does that devalue physical media like actual photos, a scrapbook, and hand written letters or does it place more of a worth on putting the time in to actually create an object outside of digital technology?

For me I find that hand made items have more of a value since so much is online and in the digital world. There is something "homey" in a hand made item that has associations of caring and love that gets lost with how technical and inhumane digital items can be found.