Category Archives: Science and Technology

What Has Technology Done to the World?

With inventions, there is always change. In the article, “Five Things We Need to Know about Technological Change” I reflected on the history of technology in many ways. This article made me realize how technology is a part of everyone’s … Continue reading

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Google – the amazing search engine that unveils the world before our eyes

Google is at the top of the most known companies in the world, making itself even bigger than Coca Cola and GE. Even though most people recognize Google as just a search engine, it is actually a much larger company, … Continue reading

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The Ever Dominating Google Potentially Threatens Our Future

In How Google Dominates Us, James Gleick begins to describe the process of how Google tries to complete our sentences and enter our minds.  Although technology has not progressed that far yet, Google founders begin to describe how they would like … Continue reading

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Is “Google” becoming a hindrance on education?

In today’s day and age everything can be accessed through the World Wide Web. From the latest celebrity break-ups, to solutions for numbers 1 through 7 in your algebraic textbook, the internet has the answers to it all. There is … Continue reading

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When Social Media, Advertising, and Consumers Collide: SXSW

Have you ever heard of SXSW or South by Southwest? It’s a massive arts festival in Austin, Texas that runs every year for what seems to be a random number of days and typically garners big names in emerging genres … Continue reading

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How to Adapt to Technology

Everyday there is a crazy, new piece of metal that is being thrown at us through advertisement. It can become very overwhelming if one does not know how to handle it properly. With this said, we must keep in mind … Continue reading

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Is Google Making Us Lazy?

It’s happened to us all, we can’t remember that one actor in a movie or the song from that commercial and the first thing we do is pull up Google. When looking up a simple question on Google you can … Continue reading

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Technological Changes: Good vs. Evil

When you ask people about their computers, their televisions, their smartphones, or their tablets, you always hear the common phrase, “I don’t know what I would do without them.”  The use of technology has become the definition of our society.  … Continue reading

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Is Google Friend or Foe? The Answer is Yes.

Google has been my Internet default page for as long as I can remember. I think it used to be MSN.com, but I got tired of pseudo-news getting in the way of the things I actually wanted to see. It … Continue reading

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Google AdWords: making money off you

At first, the article “How Google Dominates Us” seemed like little more than a commercial for Google. I found myself getting roped in by how Google started, developed and grew. I didn’t realize how “search engines” worked before the invention of … Continue reading

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