Category Archives: Economy

Expectations of the Past’s Future, 2012

As I effortlessly type on my lovely 2011 Toshiba laptop, I can only imagine what computers were like twenty years ago. Around the year I was born. The HD-projected, user-friendly, light-weight piece of machinery is probably incomparable to the first Macintosh “Lisa” model– huge in size, pixelated projection, … Continue reading

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Hopeful Ambitions for Internet Giants

Everyone knows that there’s money on the internet.  We all use it and we are constantly reading stories about how people create a website and become a millionaire overnight.  This disillusionment is mainly attributed to the assumption that advertisers will … Continue reading

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Are we moving at the speed of technology?

As technology continues to grow at an outstanding pace, one can only consider the simple but yet undeniable question: Is society growing at a fast enough pace to keep up with the speed that technology is growing? I think that … Continue reading

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Google: The Monopoly?

In this day and age, the term “Google it” is synonymous with finding out any term, phrase, or pretty much anything that you don’t know.  The infamous site will take your word or phrase of words and find pretty much … Continue reading

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Will people be working less with the advancement of technology?

Brian Hayes makes a good point when he states that not that long ago, “nearly everyone agreed that people would be working less once computers and other kinds of automatic machinery became widespread.” I think that although technology is becoming … Continue reading

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Advertising in the Age of Social Networks: A Virtual Gold Rush?

In the article “The Revolution of Will Not Be Monetized” by Bob Garfield, he asserts that in the era of huge internet properties such as Google’s Youtube, Facebook and Twitter, which have sold for billions on the open market, sky … Continue reading

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Google’s Secrets to Success

Google has become the most popular search engine in the world. Only five years after its creation, Google was in control of about 85% of overall Internet searches and has only grown since then. So how did founders Larry Page … Continue reading

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The Problem with Online Advertising

To most people in this day and age advertising online seems like an obvious route. We all use the itnernet and we all see how many ads are there. We realize them especially when we try and watch videos on … Continue reading

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It’s 2012, Where is Automation?

I had never heard of the term “automation” until reading the very insightful article “Automation on the Job” by Brian Hayes. Automation was the idea beginning in the 1950’s that at some point in the near future, automatic machines and … Continue reading

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Technology Giveth and Technology Taketh Away

With the advancement of technology jobs that once belonged to humans are slowly being replaced by machinery. This is not a new concept, and has impacted the country since the 1950’s during the Industrial Revolution. Factories used to be operated … Continue reading

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