Speech on why books are better than internet
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The Internet has it's advantages, books are reliable The Internet is vast and filled to the brim with a wealth of knowledge. However, the only way to get at the information you want is to scour through piles of data from uncertain sources. Anyone can say anything about any topic they want, without regard to truth or not.
A book is far more reliable. Yes, it is faster to find the information on the Internet, but a book can prove to be a far greater source of information. It can point out nearly everything there is to know about the subject at hand.
I noticed in one of the opinions that the Internet is better because the book was replaced by it. The Internet was created to send information from one source to another (called Transmission Control Protocol) which would eventually lead to the Internet we know today.
Books have a more mental significance than the Internet or TV can ever wish to show. Before the Internet, books were one of the major forms of entertainment, sending the readers into a realm of fantastic adventures. Everything in the book was imagined in the reader's mind, sparking their creativity. When you watch online videos or TV, your creativity cannot flourish. Everything is blatantly shown to the viewer. Additionally, when having to write a paper or create a project using books, it required patience, which is a great trait to have. Just typing in what you want to find and getting it immediately on a silver platter makes the user expect everything to happen at once (just as the Internet does).
Is the Internet better than books? In it's own ways, yes it is. It has advanced how we teach our children, allows us to connect with others across the world, and allows us the freedom to express ourselves (just as this debate has shown). From a researching standpoint, I believe that books have the advantage over the Internet. Don't believe everything you read on the Internet, you have to dig through various data sources to find the correct information, and has it's downfalls towards mental growth. The Internet should be used to a certain degree, we cannot rely on it to find information. Besides, what would happen if the Internet went out? What would you have to resort to in order to find information? Books. There is a reason they have survived this long, they can contain information from as far back (in some cases even further) than the time of Christ, something that the Internet can never hope to accomplish. Not all information is put into the Internet, diaries and journals from your ancestors will not be found on the Internet, they would have to have been read and typed up at some point.
Like I said in the start, the Internet has it's advantages over books, but books are more reliable.
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