Monthly Archives: March 2013

The Spreading Trend of the Blogger

It use to be that in order to get your thoughts and opinions out to the masses and have some sort of legit platform to do so you were either a government official, a person of some sort of celebrity …

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Where’s the line in journalism?

I am a very fact-driven person. I want to know the facts of a situation, and I want to know as many of them and with as much details as possible. This is especially true with hot news items, and …

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Is all of our artificial intelligence?

The topic of my blog post last week surrounded Google as I focused on James Gleick’s article “How Google Dominates Us.” This week, I’m returning to the land of search queries once again with Nicholas Carr’s article “Is Google Making …

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Yahoo’s Telecommuting Ban Receives Major Backlash

Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer has given her employees until June to commute to an office everyday, essentially ending employees telecommuting from home. This decision from Mayer has been met with a lot of criticism, there has been some speculation that …

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“Being Successful and Believing In Yourself”

Many people have been criticized for abandoning their well-known talents or gifts and using other or lesser known skills to garner success. The major reason for this criticism is that society gets use to associating the person with their well-known …

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The Future is Now: 3D Printing and its Global Role

What do you think of when you hear the term “science fiction?” Perhaps you’ve seen a science fiction or fantasy film before and you can recall some of their technology that seemed too far-fetched, like some sort of all-purpose fabricator …

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Will automation eventually make the job market die out?

Many things are made from technology and are automatic these days. Some things that I can name are automated phone messages or automated voices when calling a number. By this I mean when you call a company and have an …

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The Daily Use of Computers and Why We Still Need Humans to Operate Them

Computers are everywhere and used for everything. There is not a day that goes by where a business man or woman does not use a computer. Students at university and students in high school all use computers for research and …

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Technology Hinders Productivity at Work

Just as technology serves as a distraction for students the same can be said for professionals at work.  I can think of two scenarios as to why technology is detrimental to work production; one scenario involves young professionals being distracted …

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If automation has been so successful, why are we still so stressed?

Ah, the future… during the 1950’s and 60’s the world experienced quantum leaps in productivity and technology and based on those advances, it became very popular to make predictions about where we’d be in the 2000’s. From jetpacks to robots, …

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