2001: A Space Odyssey

where everyone seems to be dreaming about. The future has been a perfect spot for the movies industry. The constantly human’s need to know what our actions and consequences would bring, have been the base for movies like Her, Silent Running, 2001:Space Odyssey and Stranger Days. Putting all the beautiful visual effects and futuristic graphics aside, movies is the best way to travel in time because they show us a visual representation of an upcoming future. Directors like Stanly Kubrick, Douglas…

Tana'j Gross Scott Branks del Llano English 1301 15 October 2017 Humans becoming mindless computers "Is Google Making Us Stupid? By Nicholas Carr. Nicholas Carr is a writer and journalist. In this article he explains that the internet is doing more damage to the human brain than helping it. Carr has a few questions about what the internet really does to the human brain. Also, he wants to know is google really making us stupid and unable to process information the right way. This question…

his readers his argument that because of online texts and web browsers, like google, the way people think has changed. The use of logos and pathos is weakened by his use of ethos. At the beginning of his article, Carr quotes a scene from 2001: A Space Odyssey and how he feels it represents our present minds. The imagery of Hal being disconnected and the astronaut’s near deaths has the reader rethinking about what might happen in the future. The scene also goes along with Carr’s belief on how…

I’ve only seen one Stanley Kubrick film, “2001: A Space Odyssey,” and I liked it very much. For my next foray into the venerated director’s filmography, I watched his previous picture: “Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb. My recent venture into black comedy with “MASH” didn’t go so well, but I was sure I’d like this Kubrick film. And I did like it, but I still think it shows that I am out of my element with this subgenre of black comedy. “Dr. Strangelove” tells…

William Thompson has interesting views about the unconscious, conscious, and how evolution will play out. The article discusses how he created an American culture similar to Watergate called Lindisfarne Association. Furthermore, it was established in the golden age of Celtic Christianity and many other religions, which once provided it with a religious base. Lindisfarne gave him inspiration to create a unique education known as “planetary culture”. Considering that, this culture was surfacing in…

Computers and Craniums: A Continuing Cycle of Connections The enigma of the human mind is a puzzle that has fascinated many great scientists. From the earliest musings of the ancient philosophers to the advanced neuroscience research going on today, many intelligent people have worked to understand what is going on in our own heads. In an interesting phenomenon, our understanding of the mind is intimately linked to the technology that is used to study it, and the new findings that arise feed…

As the technology becomes a larger part of our lives, there are more and more articles discussing the topic. Nicholas Carr writes “Is Google Making Us Stupid?,” which is a article that covers the different ways the internet is disconnecting our lives and brains from the real world. He starts with a personal story that discusses his ability to stay focused has dropped as the internet has made it more difficult to process larger pieces of information. (Carr para. 5) The writer is grateful for…

Technological advances will continually happen for better or for worse. Google is without a doubt the most popular search engine in the world and a technological advancement that puts all sorts of information within our grasps. Nicholas Carr has written several books such as “IT Doesn’t Matter” and “Does IT Matter?” and he has his own blog in which he criticizes our supposed growing dependency on technology. He had different work such as “The Shallows: What the Internet is Doing to Our Brains,”…

RHETORICAL ANALYSIS- “IS GOOGLE MAKING US STUDPID” The world of internet has made the flow of information very easy and the entire globe is just a click away from you. But there has started surfacing a school of thoughts which believes that availability of vast sea of information on the internet using search engines like GOOGLE is also making people foolish. Nicholas Carr, the writer of this article belongs to same school of thoughts. His belief is that excessive use of GOOGLE is replacing our…

Reflection At the start of the course, the class was introduced to the writing type: Summary. It was difficult to grasp because the previous writing styles that were used were subjective. Though, the transition from subjective to objective was successful. Notably, the concept of summary aided in constructing the annotated bibliographies. Which, helped with one of the harder assignments: The Informative Synthesis. Within the informative synthesis, there was a use of summary and an incorporation…