Monthly Archives: July 2012

Text: “Will U Marry Me?”

It is only a moment of time before “I Dos” aren’t shared in person anymore. Social Media and new age technologies are changing the way in which we foster relationships and connect with friends, family and strangers. Arnold Brown sums …

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From Game-Boys to Game-Changers

Think back to the first handheld electronic device you’ve ever powered off on an airplane. If you’re my age, it was probably one of the greatest inventions of the 90’s: a large, grey, yellow-screened, poorly-pixelated Nintendo Game-Boy. This groundbreaking device …

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Virtual Worlds and their Effects on Role-Playing

As I am sure we have all witnessed that technology has come to great heights, especially within the last decade.  A new option for online users and gamers are virtual worlds.  In essence it’s a multiplayer online roleplaying atmosphere, in …

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No I don’t care what you ate for breakfast!

The social media revolution has taken the Internet by storm, affecting everything from how businesses do there marketing to the information we as internet users share. Social media has influenced so much of our world already and it continues to …

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Does Virtual Reality Equal The New Reality?

The internet seems to be taking over our lives.  It offers us a bit of everything as long as we know how to find it.  We are socializing on Facebook, Twitter, and Pinterest.  Churches are streaming lives services.  Schools are …

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My Avatar Can Beat Up Your Avatar, and It’s Sexy Too!

Apparently appearance and gender have a major impact not just in the real world, but also in the virtual world. According to studies presented in “Expressing My Inner Gnome: Appearance and Behavior in Virtual Worlds” by Shyong K. Lam and …

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The power of the pen vs. the click of a keyboard

In speaking with a friend of mine who is a Humanities professor at a local community college, I heard her sadly state that many elementary schools are contemplating not teaching cursive writing to future students. She went on to say …

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Has The Net Stolen Our Capacity To Think?

After reading, “Is Google Making Us Stupid?, I have to completely agree with Mr. Carr.  I never realized it until I read the article but I totally feel the same way.  The custom that I used to have while reading …

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I Google, There-for I am

There is no question that the invention of the internet and the wide use of Google searches has forever altered our mindset as people. The way in which we gather and process information will never be as it was before. …

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Technology fights loneliness and boredom on this side of town.

Once upon a time, on a summer afternoon with nothing to do, I’d read a book because nothing else could possibly fight this boredom. The purpose of technology is make things easier and that’s exactly what it does. With the …

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