...Mass Media” by Steven Pinker he writes how technology is not making us stupid, but is actually making us smarter: “ The Internet and information technologies are helping is manage, search and retrieve our collective intellectual output at different scales, from Twitter and previews to e- books and online encyclopedias. Far from making us stupid these technologies are the only thing keeping us smart.”(Pinker). The constant updates that these devices are giving us are yes, more convenient but not making us stupid. Pinker believes that the technology is very much distracting, but not if the users have some self control. Pinker said “ Distraction is not a new phenomenon. The solution is not to bemoan technology but to develop strategies of self-control, as we do with every other temptation in life. Turn off email or Twitter when you work, put away your Blackberry at dinner time, ask your spouse to call you to bed at a designated hour.” He argues that although these devices can distract us and interfere sometimes, they can easily be shut off to allow full focus. It is the users of these devices who are at fault, not technologies. In the essay, Pinker is very much disagreeing with Carr. While Carr takes the other side and argues that technology is altering the way we think in a negative way causing us to skim through things and expect the obvious answers, Pinker believes that using technologies like PowerPoint and search engines are causing us to be smarter and gain more knowledge effectively...
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...Mobile Internet technology - Abstract: This paper narrates the latest trends which are creating ripples in the areas of Mobile Internet and how these technologies are changing the way we communicate and also the way we interact and retrieve information in real-time while on the move. And how these technologies enables us to connect with various Social Network groups and Special Interest Groups. It is almost as if information has become ubiquitous and accessible at the touch of the button...slowly transforming our lives by enriching the user experience and making us part of a new digital world and a Digital Economy and as if it is making a citizen of a virtual digital world of which we are truly part of breaking out of all the physical, geographical and geopolitical boundaries and making us all part of that One World that we all truly belong to. In the previous two decades, while Digital technology was going through its own Renaissance movement, a state has been only achieved now that various morphs of the Digital world can be truly seen and felt and we are experiencing it now everyday. Is this the Utopia we all have dreamt of? While the existence of the digital world has been felt in various forms to impact our day to day life in terms of providing us instance access to information, making a huge impact on our personal, business lives and on the economy as a whole- Will it ever be able to transform itself as a powerful platform or medium to influence and completely morph...
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...It has been researched that 92% of teenagers get online daily ("Teens, Social Media & Technology Overview 2015"). I believe many can agree that they pull out their smartphone every time there is down-time in their day. No conversation in the car between you and the driver? Easy solution. Pull out your smartphone and check your Twitter feed. Making technology so relevant in our lives may not sound like a bad thing but there are many risks that come with being so active online. Some of these risks include addiction, cyber bullying, distraction and more. Yes, technology has brought us far in this world, but these threats are major- especially for teens. Technology, specifically the internet, does more harm than good. The Telegraph newspaper...
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...2013. Web. 12 Nov. 2013. In an effort to provide its Special Operation Forces with enhanced mobility, protection and surveillance abilities, U.S. Special Operations Command (USSOCOM) challenged researchers to develop a suit that would combine nanotechnology with endurance for the ultimate suit of body armor. Freedberg, Sydney J., Jr. "Breaking Defense." Breaking Defense. N.p., 21 Oct. 2013. Web. 13 Nov. 2013. TALOS has already gotten a lot of attention: 80 companies, 11 universities, and four government-funded laboratories participated in an August planning session. This has lead to the much increased hype about this new project. Hornyak, Tim. "Military Hunts for Real-life Iron Man Armor." CNET News. CBS Interactive, 10 Oct. 2013. Web. 13 Nov. 2013. US Special Operations Command chief William McRaven has been asking industry, academia, and entrepreneurs to collaborate in building the sci-fi like armor. Lynch, Terrence P. "Man Magnifier The Ultimate Paratrooper." Design News 47.8 (1991): 84- 91. Academic Search Premier. Web. 13 Nov. 2013. The media has created a new hype about the military making an ultimate armor/ body suit for the military. By the end of the first decade of the new millennium, lightweight armor, batteries, digital communications, and control systems would come together to produce powered body armor for airborne infantry. In future military parlance: BAP, for Body Armor, Powered. "Military Exoskeletons Uncovered:...
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...Anyone can look up the definition of Technology in Merriam-Webster’s dictionary and see that it is a practical application of knowledge in a particular area and a capability given by it, we can look all around us and see how this has manifested itself in the real world. It is the way that life for all is made easier and for this generation, “tolerable”. Technology is an advanced art that has been around for centuries with the most advancement in the recent decades, with television, phones and computers being the simplest and common of these. It is a gain for all, young and old have reaped the benefits of the advancement of technology, surrounded by it day to day. Portable music on IPods, the ability to check emails, text and even streaming video on the go all made possible because of the recent expansion of technology, it is inevitable. Smoke signals, telegraphs, and snail mail are all a thing of the past. Today, we communicate via email, texting, and social networks, all this from the palm of our hand. The advancement of the wireless phone has allowed this to be so. More than fifteen years ago, phones still had to have some type of wire connection and now with the evolution of cell phone technology, we can easily keep in touch with those that are across the room or thousands of miles away. It is a tremendous improvement of our ability to share news with others. Breaking news stories are made available to us in seconds after they happen and can be reported to the general public...
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...Breaking Tradition Will fiber ever make it to the desktop? This article is basically is about the differences between copper network infrastructure cabling and fiber-optic cable. Although it is overall cheaper to install and obtain fiber-optic cable companies are still electing to us copper networking. The reason that copper is still on top is because the companies that manufacture it are making sure that copper wire is still being made specifically for certain infrastructures. Copper wiring also seems to be a lot easier to work with for the time being due to lack of engineering economical of the 24 or 48 port fibers switches. I think that quality of the information was short, sweet and to the point. This article was not overloaded with information. If also was not difficult for anyone person to understand the point of it. I do not know much about the in and outs of computers. Even less about the behind screens of putting the network and the hardware together. I think the way the article was presented was done very well. Personally, I think that it take time for people get on broad with new technology. In my opinion, this article seems to be well informative. Also in reading the material it was very descriptive in regards to the contrast between copper cabling and fiber-optic cable. It went into detail regarding both the pros and cons between for the use of fiber-optic cable. However at the end of the article the writer proceeds to states that he feels that...
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...Problems with technology(old versus new) Can you imagine that before?You carry a little box everyday and you can use it to do anything , such as sending email to your friend in the other side of earth. In early 20th century, computer changed our life, then it’s smart phone, and tablet. People now can communicate with others without any space or time limit. We sounds free today,but we actually do? In nowadays we seem totally are tied by the box. We don’t face our friends anymore, either we don’t concentrate the things surrounding us.Stop to look at the box.We need to live in the real,and communicate with the real people. We really need to move our eyesight away from the screen.Smart phone and tablet fill with people’s lives today.Checking the social website when we are waiting the bus.Texting to our friends whenever we want.After all,we may find out that the real life was disappear.I hold my cellphone all the time.It brings me many convenient,but now I feel I am tiding by it.Even no one text me,I always feel it is vibrating.When I go out for dinner,taking the picture for the food seems more important than taste them.Before the smartphone appear,we talk to our families after dinner,and we social with who we met.Now we all become the phubber,and we seem to lost the ability of social.We need to leave the box away.We talk to many strangers through the social apps,meanwhile we even don’t know how to talk to the real person around us.One day,I was been a party,we sit around with...
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...We Can Not Survive Without Technology Technology has become a very big part of our lives now, most people use some sort of technology every day. We start our days using some form of technology, from a coffee maker to a microwave. Though it can be argued that technology is bad thing for you, but if you think about all the good things that have come from technology you may think differently. However, in the United States, almost everyone cannot live without technology, and are solely dependent on it in everyday. Even though we use technology everyday it doesn’t mean that it’s a bad thing. If you think about it, technology has given us computers, iPods, and cell phones. We have used it to take us to the Moon, and received pictures from mars using a satellite. Not only has technology brought us to outer space, but we have used it to help many people as well. Without our advances in medicine many people would be dead, and others would have had much shorter life spans. Thinking about all the things we have done with medical science it’s astonishing. We have cured many diseases as well as making it possible for people who didn’t think they had a chance of having a child now can. One of the most widely used technologies would be the internet. Even though the web is made primarily as an information source, we have used it more as a way of connecting to each other in a new way. Many good things have happened because of technology, but is having too much, a good thing or a bad...
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...Technological Evolution: Our Social World Evolving with Technology As our technology advances, are we are becoming more or less social? To what level does social and psychological factors are inflicted on an individual? Moreover I propose the consideration that technology may drive us, for lack of a better word, stupid. I scrutinize this inquiry to myself every time I see somebody using a social networking website (such as Facebook not to mention Twitter), or when somebody is ceaselessly texting their friends and/or family on their cellular phone. I will not lie, I use these services myself. Adhering to the availability to reach a friend who has moved to the opposite side of the country or talking to old high school friend very helpful. But I still reminisce… the old days when we would talk to our friends over the phone and send a letter via “snail mail.” Or when trying to find the answers to our inquiries by believing on memory, many of us now have the second nature to look up the explanation on Google or Wikipedia for immediate gratification to have that question answered. It is in depth that I ask myself if technology reforming our social interactions and astuteness for the better or worse. Facebook, Twitter, or MySpace: What do they all have in common? According to Danah Boyd and Nicole Ellison, the authors of an article in the Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication defines social networking websites “allow[s] individuals to (1) construct a public or semi-public profile...
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...effectiveness of communication. The purpose is the overall meaning for the message being sent out. The sender of the message determines the content of the message being sent out. The receiver decrypts the message received. The message delivered contains the important information to be provided for the individual. The environment is the proclaimer between the supervisor and subordinates relationship on an organizational climate. Technology is the means of ways to communication with one another, The noise can interfere with every aspect maybe external or internal. Feedback allows the sender to receive and send a response from the receiver allowing conformation that the message was understood. In this paper, I will analyze three business-related messages that I received, where as the explaination of how the content, media, and technology of the feedback are appropriate for the purpose and audience. Analyze message on Lateral Transfer The first message was sent out in e-mail to all the Supply Sergeant in the Brigade. There was an attached excel spreadsheet breaking down each unit into categories by unit identification codes. As each Supply Sergeant views the spreadsheet it shows what type of equipment is either being taken away or giving to the unit. It is the responsibility of the property book officer to in...
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...The Role of Federal Agencies in Fighting Digital Crime Abstract The United States of America is the most connected and technologically advanced country in the world. The genius of our electrical engineers, computer scientists, and technology companies has helped to change the way that the world does business, made our daily lives safer and more enjoyable, and brought the world closer together. Albeit, these are remarkable innovations, but they have unfortunately given criminals, terrorists, and hostile states new opportunities to steal American property, disrupt our way of life, and compromise our National security. This paper will attempt to show the roles and challenges of law enforcement agencies such as the Secret Service, FBI, Department of Homeland Security, and others that have taken on roles to fight computer crimes and terrorism. This paper will also discuss how the U.S. could align the efforts of these agencies to better protect the nation against digital crimes and terrorism. Keywords: law enforcers, national security, protect, crime The Role of Federal Agencies in Fighting Digital Crime Cyber crooks are always working to steal the privacy and money of hard-working Americans. The computers of American consumers are subject to endless scams and schemes achieved by malicious e-mails, malware turning their computers into unwitting bots that send out unwanted spam, or the plethora of identity theft conjured up by these crooks to steal hard-working people’s...
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...As every generation comes they bring with them a new invention from cars to television to the telephone the basic existence of man, in my eyes, is to advance both technologically, thus making life better for us all and also scientifically. Man wants to know all we want to be able to answer all the questions out there as every day goes by we get closer and closer to answering some of our questions. Everyday new cures for diseases are found and also new diseases are discovered, new discoveries are made in various fields, at the same time however new problems are arising. Man in every era has depended on some form of tool to help him to his tasks whatever they may be, a tool to make things easier. This tool is technology; technology does not have to be the modern thoughts of computers. Technology is "the science of technical processes in a wide, though related field of knowledge." That is the definition given by The New Lexicon Webster's Dictionary of the English Language. So technology can be anything as long as it helps us advance. It can be anything like a plough to help a farmer, a television to help the media and the telephone to help us communicate. The latest technology of the 20th Century is the Internet and it has placed a great mark on our society. It is the new "place to be" where business can advance, people can interact worldwide at the click of a mouse and this has revolutionarily changed the world. In the world of the Internet there are millions of members worldwide...
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...Max Chang English 301B Professor Pastrana Tuesday/Thursday 8am Is Technology Good for Us? I still remember the days of having dial-up Internet, not being able to search the web if someone was using the phone, but now we have high speed Internet, fios and Wi-Fi. If you ask me, technology has come a long way. But if new technology, such as the Ipad, were given to schools, would it be helpful for students? My feet are on both sides. Thanks to technology, we are able to grasp information easier and faster, but in return we are becoming lazier and losing the ability to think critically. Also if such technology were to be used in the classrooms, it may cause a distraction to students or even teachers. We also have to consider the amount of money that is going into programs like this because things like iPads are not free and fairly expensive. Technology, over the years, greatly improved and has been helpful for us. With technology, you are able to find information at a much faster rate than if you were to look for it in the books. For a book, you would have to search through page after page, reading almost everything to find what you are looking for. Whereas the Internet you can search by key words and it would show up faster. The Internet also has an unlimited amount of information and a book is restricted to what is written. For example, books are only hold certain amount of information, the words written down on the pages, whereas for the Internet, you are able to look...
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...Ethical in accounting practice Ethics is a guideline for us to do what is right and what are wrong, but being unethical is not against the law, to be ethical in accounting practice there are 3 roles Trust, confidentiality and legal repercussions. Trust-Accountants must be worth trusting for understanding the law and legal aspects of the accounting issues. Confidentiality-In a company accounts would have the most information (client’s information, each colleague’s salary, company’s trading record) so it is really important for an accountant to keep their account documents confidential. Legal repercussions- accountants must be really careful for their work and understanding that the consequence of breaking the law if they are not careful for their work. (http://www.ehow.com/facts_6821517_role-ethics-accounting.html) In some companies they will have a person who is called an ethicist, an ethicist is for setting standards for accounting ethics for a company, to become and ethicist, he or she must have a degree on business law and philosophy, an ethicist also play the role of an consultant, the ethicists could answer question like “Can I consider buying a birthday present for our company’s friendly driver who would drive us home even his working time is off as an allowance for entertainment?” not only answering question the ethicist will so advice how to react on different situations, such as misleading financial analysis in order to obtain personal gains, misuse...
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...Mobile phones attached to us and some of us might even feel very unbearable without having one no matter wherever we are in today's modern world, back in around late 1980's the very first mobile phone was available in the market for purchase off course not everyone was afforded to buy it at that time it had limited functions such as making calls and possibly sending text messages, then it gradually changes from there towards these technology, as the names says smart phones are multifunction device which allows its users variety of options such as making phone calls, text, browsing the net, or playing games basically it allows the users to learn and earn while having fun at the same time with that options in mind this makes the popular target from the today's society.(occurring article named: eMarketer.com ) There is no doubt that smart...
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