Google Driverless Car Analysis

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Technologies are essential in this fast-paced world where innovation and advances are occurring in our everyday lives. It has made interactions with people easier, knowledge and talents can be shared easily on the internet with simple touch while some conservative people or centrist contradict that technologies are going too far. Certain individuals like Renny Gleeson, in “Our antisocial phone tricks” reveals that the dependency and the availability of technology have risen significantly that if physiologically impact us in the brain in a bad way. Others, like the scientist, and innovator. Sebastian Thrun current project “Google Driverless Car” uncovers the significance and the revolutionary self- driven car to save fuel, lane capacity and lives of others. The multitasking has a connection with technologies and has impacted our behavioral through “Forget multitask, try monotasking” by Paolo Cardini …show more content…
The main purpose of this tiny portable device is to make communication and socialize easier than ever. It has definitely worked but had failed this generation at the same time. We now neglect the person that is front of us but talk to the person through satellite. During the video, I remembered one of Einstein quote “I fear the day that technology will surpass our human interaction. The world will have a generation of idiots.”. The availability of phone has separated between the social reality and virtual reality life. “You are not as important as, literally, almost anything that could come to me through this device," said Renny Gleeson. It seems that rather that reality, the identity that we show in social media are more

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