2001: A Space Odyssey

as our main information source. He talks about the new idea of considering the mind as a computer feels bad for the loss of deep reading and the intellectual stimulation it provides four our brain. Carr starts the article with a quote from 2001: A Space Odyssey. He explains the quote, talking about how the human is rewiring the computer, but then he parallels that with how computers have rewired his brain. I didn’t know who Nicholas Carr was, so I researched him. He is a highly respected author…

Text Bio Sam Preece was born in the small town of Shrewsbury, Shropshire. The town not being known as a hive of activity, he found solace elsewhere, mainly in films and video games. Early exposure to science fiction like Blade Runner and 2001: A Space Odyssey instilled a sense of wonder into him. Seeking…

The notion that the new defining technology of the current age negatively affects the practitioners of that technology is a common idea throughout human history. It is a belief that is as wrong today as it was 2000 years ago, especially when applied to the current applications of the Internet. As humans develop adoptions to their current world, there is always a non-negligence subset of the population that decries the changes as decedent and detrimental. The focus on increasing efficiency…

What Dillon shows us is that reading in smaller bursts are slowly hurting our ability to comprehend information and texts. Dillon shows us that there is a huge difference between reading online and reading a physical copy. He finds it funny that we have not noticed this sooner, we rely so much on digital information, but we have not paid attention to how much it has effected us (Sullivan par 6). One of the earliest articles I found that discusses the decline of reading is The Death of Reading…

Albert Einstein once said, “I fear the day that technology will surpass our human interaction. The world will have a generation of idiots.” That is now a cruel reality. Nowadays, individuals cannot do simple task; for instance, remembering a relative’s phone number, using a phonebook to find a company, or what is absolutely very common solving a Math problem on your own without using a calculator. In my childhood, I learned how to tell time; kids now are having trouble telling time because…

On July 20, 1969, NASA successfully sent three men, Neil Armstrong, “Buzz” Aldrin, and Michael Collins, to the Moon for its Apollo 11 mission, one of the many missions in the Apollo program. About seven years after the landings, in 1976, a man named Bill Kaysing released a book title We Never Went to the Moon: America’s Thirty Billion Dollar Swindle, in which he claimed that the entire landing was simply a hoax. Since then, many people have read this book (or similar books) or heard about the…

Hamilton’s research found that students in the United States and members of a remote Cambodian hill tribe express emotions through music and movement in nearly the same way. Both the students and the people from the Cambodian Kreung tribe were asked to manipulate five slider bars to change the characteristics of an animated character representing bouncy ball and make it look peaceful, scared, happy, sad or angry (Fig 2). Fig 2. Paradigm. Participants manipulated five slider bars corresponding…

infamous words quoted from the advanced high-tech computer known as Hal, spoken after a terribly gone array glitch in its central operating system. For not only did this glitch cost the lives of the entire crew on board the spacecraft in the movie Space Odyssey 2001, but it also serves as a chilling reminder of some of the potentially dangerous consequences involved in relying too heavily on computer generated knowledge. Notwithstanding the above mentioned consequences, in light of today’s…

If a solid story, and am favorable with the subject content, I tend to enjoy a good period piece film. In a way it's the closest thing we have to a machine that can go back in time, that we can actually see events unfold for ourselves. Researched thoroughly, it's contents can not only be entertaining, but a learning experience as well. Unless if based on a conspiracy theory, then all bets are off. And this is where the film, Moonwalkers, comes in. The premise being that the American Government…

The Hidden Emotions in the Logic of Carr’s “Is Google Making Us Stupid?” In society, people tend to rely on their computers, smart phones, and other devices so much. Technology has rapidly increased since the beginning of the 2000s and accessing knowledge has never been easier. Information can be retrieved by a few clicks through a search bar on a flat screen. Many people today would say that search engines, such as Google, are saving time and energy. However, if this continues to happen, would…