Author Archives: srice

Where are we headed with technology?

Posted on April 24, 2013 by srice

It is unbelievable how much technology has advanced in just the past ten years.  It makes me wonder where we will be in the world of technology in another ten.  We live with smart phones now and wonder how we …

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Do We Place Ourselves in a Generational Box?

Posted on April 17, 2013 by srice

Do you really believe that we all belong in a specific generational box?  It is not something I considered until reading the essay titled “Generational Myth”, by Siva Vaidhyanathan.  When I look back on history I tend to associate a …

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Social Media Changing Our Lives

Posted on April 10, 2013 by srice

It is strange to think that just a few years ago Facebook did not exist.  Social media in general has blown up our internet world, and it seems virtually everyone has some sort of social media account.  And social media …

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Is Our Generation Really Technologically Savvy?

Posted on April 2, 2013 by srice

I’ll be the first to admit that I am not as advanced in technology as most people my age today.  With all this talk about us being in the “digital age”, I am thinking I am not quite alone.  I …

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Losing Jobs to Machines

Posted on March 20, 2013 by srice

It has always been a worry to the job marketplace that factories would completely replace humans with machines, putting large amounts of people out of the job.  But I don’t feel like this is weighing so heavily as it did …

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Drowning in Advertisments

Posted on March 13, 2013 by srice

Do you ever feel like you are drowning in advertisements when going about your daily life? Social media, IPhone apps, and search engines constantly hound us with new products and services.  But in today’s digital world, advertisers have no choice.  …

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Financing Politics: right or wrong?

Posted on February 27, 2013 by srice

When it comes to politics, it seems now more than ever we have to be very critical of every candidate.  With all the money that is being pumped into politics, it is frustrating that we still deal with politicians who …

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Personal Security and the Internet

Posted on February 20, 2013 by srice

Nowadays we do almost everything online, paying bills, shopping, managing finances; the list goes on.  With so much of our personal information out there in the virtual world, we put so much faith in the organizations that we deal with …

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Declining quality of television and news reporting

Posted on February 12, 2013 by srice

It is no suprise that today’s journalism is full of sensationalism.  Before the internet and even computer, media had much less or no competition.  Should we be blaming the journalists who provide the sensationalist media, or ourselves for watching it. 

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Old News to New News

Posted on January 30, 2013 by srice

While technology takes over, the newspaper battles to stay in the running as a go to for our daily dish of news.  In today’s world, we have access to news almost anywhere at our fingertips.  Every newspaper has gone online, …

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