Andrew Blum's What Is The Internet, Really?

Decent Essays
The video "What is the Internet, really?", discusses how the relationship between people and the physical world has changed as technology started to make a great impact. Andrew Blum mentions how the image in an electronic has no physical reality of itself. After Andrew’s internet broke down and a cable man found the problem, he decided to spend two years in discovering the physical side of the internet. He visited the building 60th Hudson Street in New York, which is one of the thousand buildings that have more networks of internet connected. However, Andrew discovers that the wire connected to a network router to another router is the physical process of this phenomenon. Furthermore, he explains the process it takes to connect wires underneath

Related Documents

  • Decent Essays

    Where Is It Written?”, by Adam Schwartz, is a story about a boy name Sam. Sam is tired of living with his mother and wants to live with his dad. Sam’s mother was known as always suing someone in the past and studies alot of law books. Sam’s parents were divorce when he was 4 years old and his father won the case. Sam first visitis and bonds with his father and actually enjoys it.…

    • 225 Words
    • 1 Pages
    Decent Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Never before have we lived in a time where information was so freely available. If I want to read my favorite author’s latest chapter, buy a new pair of headphones, or watch a cute cat video, the internet has it all. ? In Nicholas Carr’s “Is Google Making Us Stupid” he presents on how the internet is…

    • 57 Words
    • 1 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Great Essays

    An Analysis of Carr’s “Is Google Making Us Stupid” In the last 30 years, a wave of technological innovation has swept over the Earth, blanketing our cultures with Cell Phones, Microwaves, and the peculiar creation labeled simply, “The Internet”. Emerging to the public in the 1990’s, the Internet is a vast collection of databases stored all around the world, allowing anyone with a computer and access to the internet to view virtually anything you might want to learn about. However, even in its early age, the Internet displayed curious properties, as popular tech-cartoonist Scott Adams states,” In 1993, there were only a handful of Web sites you could access, such as the Smithsonian’s exhibit of gems. These pages were slow to load and crashed…

    • 1649 Words
    • 7 Pages
    Great Essays
  • Improved Essays

    In Nicholas Carr’s article, “Is Google Making Us Stupid?” he speaks of the effect recent technological advances and methods of portraying information has had on today’s society. The author opens by stating that the relatively recent creation of the internet has hampered the metal processes of everyday life. He uses examples he has faced in his own life due to the evolution of a high-tech culture. For example he says that he has realized his recent inability to sit for a long stretch of time and read, a setback he had not dealt with in years past.…

    • 932 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    “Is Google Making Us Stupid” It has become very common in the world to use the Internet every single day of our life. In the article “Is Google Making Us Stupid” Nicholas Carr tackles the issues that he notices in himself, starting with how he no longer has the ability and it has become increasingly difficult to simply read a lengthy scholarly article. Carr states “My mind would get caught up in the narrative or the turns of the argument, and I’d spend hours strolling through long stretches of prose” (314). Carr is explaining to us that in his earlier years of life, he would not have this issue that he used to enjoy reading long educational articles. But as the years have gone by, (around a decade), Carr tells us that all the hyperlinks that instantly bring you to that page where the author got his/her information for the article do not simply tell you where to find the information, they propel you to that information in an instant.…

    • 607 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Decent Essays

    “Is Google Making us Stupid?”, an excerpt from his most recent books Nicholas Carr states that the internet is wrongfully affecting our cognition. His belief is that reading from the internet is chipping away the capacity for concentration and contemplation resulting in the inability of reading long pieces of writing. We as humans are push more to a form of skimming activity. Thus making us what implacable playwright Richard Foreman describes as “The Pancake People”. Absorbing information and distributing without full knowledge of it.…

    • 133 Words
    • 1 Pages
    Decent Essays
  • Superior Essays

    “Who Are You and What Are You Doing Here?” The author of this essay, Mark Edmundson, is a notable English professor associated with the University of Virginia. Professor Edmundson received a B.A from Bennington College in 1974, then in 1985, earned his Ph.D. from Yale University (Department of English). “Who Are You and What Are You Doing Here?” focuses on how a typical university functions from the administration, to the professors, and most importantly the students.…

    • 1178 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Superior Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Will sponsors in Intelligent Design be able to embrace the promising and innovative solutions outlined in Luke Bawazer’s Tedtalk while rejecting Darwin’s theory? Does the science discussed by Bawazer relate to Bronowski’s belief about science as imaginative and creative? We will find out if this bond between James Bronowski his notion of the nature of scientific reasoning and Luke Bawazer comparing to Edward Wilsons theory of intelligent evolution. Jacob Bronowski (2012) writes about Copernicus’s route to enlightenment as an obscure theorist challenging the common science of his time, his first stage was his mind to raise him from the planet, and put him enthusiastically, theoretically into the sun. This action signifies the start of…

    • 800 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Most people don’t know what the internet really is. In his book Tubes: a journey to the center on the internet, Andrew Blum goes all around the world to finally put an answer to the question. Blum acknowledges how we are becoming a more internet dependent society, and questions why the world inside the screen seemed to have no physical reality. Blum battles the public’s conception of the internet as a “nebulous electronic solar system, a cosmic cloud” (Blum 6). The internet is not some ethereal concept lurking behind our computer screens, but a collection of wires and computer.…

    • 649 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    In the article “The Internet is a surveillance state”, which appeared on CNN.com on March 16, 2013, Bruce Schneier claims the government can see our every move on the internet. He goes on to state, “Whether we admit it to ourselves or not, whether we like it or not, we’re being tracked at all times.” (55). He uses specific and persuasive examples from his work experience to share his thoughts and beliefs on a subject that not everyone is aware of, but the ones who do are usually chilled by it. This paper will analyze Schneier’s article from his view as an American security technologist, cryptologist, and author of “Liars and authors:…

    • 801 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Great Essays

    Technology shapes the world. Phones, tablets, computers and a myriad of other gadgets litter every home. Social media connects people living in different parts of the world to each other. Information is readily available through the internet and can enhance knowledge on anything interesting. Recent technological advances have changed the world and the future of the tech world looks bright.…

    • 1028 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Great Essays
  • Improved Essays

    As computers became essential to business, industry, trades, and professions, educators and parents became increasingly concerned that young people acquire at minimum the basic understanding of computers and master the related skills. 2. Explain computer algorithms and its significance An algorithm is a set of instructions designed to perform a specific task. In computer science, an algorithm is a set of steps for a computer application to accomplish a task.…

    • 790 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    The purpose of this paper is to describe the network configuration, explaining the role of each component and connection of the scenario provided. Specifically, I will discuss the functions of the components and describe how they contribute to the network. Along with this I will modify the appropriate components of the provided database with the information regarding the employees’ computers and the upgrade. Network Configuration Network configuration allows a system admin to set up a network to use to communicate. Per Techopedia, “Network configuration is the process of setting a network 's controls, flow and operation to support the network communication of an organization and/or network owner.”…

    • 923 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    The internet backbone and globalization Introduction The world revolves around communication which is the main driver in business and international relations. Though there are many methods in which people can communicate, the world has an insatiable need for effective and timely communication. It is this need that has seen many developments in a bid to improve communication such as the telegraph and the telephone. However, the discovery of the internet took communication to a highly different level that has seen the world become smaller with the effectiveness of that communication, globalization.…

    • 862 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    The Internet is global network that allows you to connect to the world. In 2006, Dr. Leonard Kleinrock had given speech on Internet at Infocom. It includes – the situation before Internet was invented, how internet was invented, brief overview on Arpanet (beginning and growth), what all barriers had been removed after using internet, early pioneers, implementers contributions, some good and some dark sides of Internet, his future vision about internet and five golden guidelines to research. He has defined Internet by using example of Larry Garwood and his father.…

    • 1354 Words
    • 6 Pages
    Improved Essays