No doubt, modern technological inventions facilitate our life nowadays. It seems like we cannot live without the technology in our society; indeed, speaking of education, the subjects of science or engineering in which relates to the technological discipline is being more popular and swinging to be a tideway of the world. People gradually overlook the importances of arts, literatures, and humanities which should be as important as science and technology. Nevertheless, it is obvious that the sciences and the humanities have been split into the titular two cultures. As stated by C. P. Snow, a scientist and novelist, he pointed out the idea that such the existence was a major hindrance of solving the world’s problems. As being a Linguistics with CS major student at UCLA, I would say that the claim in which was talked by C. P. Snow in The Two Cultures is certainly true.
We cannot deny that we have so many stereotypes of two total different areas: humanity and science. For instance, while an engineering major student talks about a term, integral, to a pure linguistic major student, he or she won’t follow what it is. Contrastively, an engineer would be feeling loss while a linguist talks about the system of phonetics. However, those two things can be combined and work amazingly together. One example is voice command system device (VCD). Android is an open source operating system that has been developed by Google, and it allows users to perform voice commands, such as message texting, map viewing, etc. To develop this kind of useful and convenient software, those two different areas should cooperate with each other. Therefore, another subject, Computational Linguistics, emerge and it totally widens our mind. The third culture is such kind of thing. After reading the articles, I feel that I should not only learn more about these two fields of subjects but also apply them to each other. It will be the trend of how the world communicates in the future.
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References
"RSA ANIMATE: Changing Education Paradigms." YouTube. N.p., 14 Oct. 2010. Web. 09 Apr. 2017.
Snow, C. P. “Two Cultures and the Scientific Revolution.” Reading. 1959. New York: Cambridge UP, 1961. Print.
Vesna, Victoria. "Toward a Third Culture: Being In Between." Leonardo. 34 (2001): 121-125. Print.
Vesna, Victoria. "TwoCultures Pt2." YouTube. Uconlineprogram, 3 Mar. 2012. Web. 09 Apr. 2017.
Wilson, Stephen D. “Myths and Confusions in Thinking about Art/Science/Technology.” College Art Association Meetings. New York, New York, 2000. Print
Hi, I enjoyed reading your blog very much. It is interesting to know that your major combines the general linguistics with practical knowledge of computer science, and you use this as a perfect example to emphasize how the arts and science can be “combined and work amazingly together.”
ReplyDeleteI also agree with you that the Voice Command System Device is certainly a good example of how engineering and art creatively connect with each other. After reading your blog, I gained an appreciation for how art and science can collaborate in incredible ways.
Moreover, other than explaining your own understanding of “two cultures,” you also mention about people’s stereotypes of humanity and science, which is another key issue that Professor Vesna stressed in her lecture.