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Monthly Archives: February 2012
Technology
In today’s world, I found that technologies are everywhere around our lives. As we can see, computers, smartphones, all other elecrtonic devices are all around us. Almost everyone on the train is holding an iphone, a blackberry or some other … Continue reading
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Books
For this week’s assigned reading, I would like to focus on Chapter 4 of What the Internet Is Doing To Our Brains The Shallows by Nicholas Carr. When I first began reading the chapter, I was confused yet interested in … Continue reading
Intellectual Technology
Without a shadow of a doubt, the internet, and technology as a whole, has affected the very way we live. When I was only five, my first taste of technology came in the form of the television and video games … Continue reading
Why Internet
I don’t really want to mention the cliché ‘Every coin has two sides’, but when it comes to internet, it has undoubtedly two ambiguous sides. One is beneficial to us when we use it properly doing legal things. However, the … Continue reading
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What’s Next?
As I was reading Chapter 4, The Deepening Page, I realized what what an amazing invention the printing press was. Well, I always knew it was a great accomplishment, but I never thought about how it actually effected the people … Continue reading
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On narrative, attention spans, and aliens
After last week’s class sessions, I found myself thinking a lot about how our attention spans might be changing, and whether or not the media takes this into account when they produce products for our consumption. As we saw with … Continue reading
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The Shallows
Reading Nicholas Carr’s The Shallows has been an interesting experience for me because I can identify with what he writes about. I first started using a computer when I was about eight years old, and in retrospect, I must admit … Continue reading
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Reading Log Blog
The internet has forever changed our lives once it was introduced to our every day lives. It has been in our lives while growing up in our generation. We do not know how it was without the internet…We don’t know … Continue reading