Monthly Archives: March 2013

Is Google Destroying Societies Ability To Learn On Our Own?

Google can easily be argued as one of the greatest technological advancements of all time. Not only did it change the way we exchange, search for, and process information, but above all it made the need for textbooks and libraries …

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The Internet: Changing How We Think, Read, and Learn

The Internet is a major part of our everyday lives.  Whether you are searching the news, doing homework, reading an article, or just browsing, the internet is your lifeline.  It has become the center of our generation and is shaping …

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Google is Not Making Us Stupid

Google is not making us stupid. I completely do not think Google is harming us in any way. In fact, I think Google is making us smarter because we not only get the information in a matter of seconds, but …

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Automation has Changed Today’s Occupations

The computer and in particular the World Wide Web has certainly changed how we do things compared to the early, even later 20th century.  Automation has certainly taken over many aspect of the occupational world and took the work out …

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Digital becomes everything… Except?

 

As I’ve grown, I have become accustomed to everything around me turning digital. I feel as if I have lived through the transition stage from analog to a fully digital functioning world around us. The place I have been …

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If the Internet Never Existed

Have you ever wondered what the world would be like if the internet NEVER existed?

How would things in your life be different? Billions of people use the internet worldwide. Every one of them is virtually connected to someone or …

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Free Service Attracts An Audience, An Audience Attracts Advertisements

As I’m reading “The Revolution Will Not Be Monetized” I’m thinking to myself “this can’t be true!” Who do you know that still receives a newspaper or their favorite magazine? I don’t know any. I grew up watching my grandparents …

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Newly Crowned Popes “False” Twitter Account Gets Thousands Of Followers!

Just moments after the newly crowned Pope was announced earlier today, a false Twitter account was made claiming to be the Pope. The account seemed to rack up over 1oo thousand followers. That is a massive amount of people considering …

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Sorry Twitter, You Missed Your Chance

The giant social media networking and microblogging service missed out on a huge opportunity to build an empire that would have yielded huge revenues for years to come.  By all means Twitter people will make their money, but it’s a …

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Students Can Find Themselves “Catfished” When Using Social Media

Today I was reading CNN and I saw an article about a man in Ohio who was convicted of 26 counts of aggrevarted assault, robbery, and murder. Three of the murders involved gentlemen who were meeting with the man for …

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