2001: A Space Odyssey

newest form of media known as the Internet, fundamentally alters the way a person's mind processes and contains information simultaneously. In the article, Carr begins with a dialogued, description of the closing scene from Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey, when Dave is dismantling HAL, the artificial interface within the ship, removing his memory boards. When HAL says he can feel his mind slipping, Carr says he can too. Carr also feels that more time he spends online the more its…

The Space Race between The USSR and The United States of America during the Cold War allowed the two countries to assert their dominance over one another. However, The US has not always had the goal of defeating the Soviets/Russians in outer space. The United States Space Program has changed in size, budget, and goals since the beginning of space exploration. Rockets as we know them today began in the mid-1930s in Great Britain as a means of anti-aircraft protection. However, Germany made…

Morgan Salone US History Mr.Robinson May 17, 2015 The Moon Landing “10…9…8…7…6…5...4…3…2...1…0 All engines running and lift off,”(Armstrong) said by the announcer of the 1969 liftoff of APOLLO 11. In July of 1969, America sent the first humans to walk on the moon. Three Astronauts Edwin Aldrin, Neil Armstrong, and Michael Collins were on the mission named Apollo 11. The Saturn 5 rocket was the launch vehicle they used and it was and…

Google, or the internet, is making us bored and we are reading quicker and losing focus on what we are reading. Nicholas Carr tries to scare the reader by showing what could happen if Google was to get bigger. He references a movie scene from "2001: A Space Odyssey" saying that the AI in the movie could be Google in the future. He goes on saying that the computers and machines are going to end up controlling us. I don't believe that what he is saying about how Google is making us less…

us stupid?” he believes just that. Carr introduces his idea of how the internet is changing our lives by having us heavily rely on the internet rather than us using our brain. Carr opens the article with a description of “Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey”. Carr no longer enjoys reading books of any sort of length because he can no longer concentrate. He feels and acknowledges that the more time he spends online affects his mental capabilities. Carr refers to the net as a “conduit for…

genre of fiction in which the stories often tell about science and technology of the future. It is basically a literary or cinematic genre in which fantasy, typically based on speculative scientific discoveries or developments, environmental changes, space travel, or life on other planets, forms part of the plot or background. There are mainly three important elements of science fiction namely speculation about humanity's future, the impacts of science and technology on people,…

The year is 1961 and the U.S. is six years deep in a space race with the Soviet Union to show off to each other who has the best air and space capabilities. President Kennedy gives a speech saying that we will go to the moon “not because it is easy, but because it is hard” (Engle). Less than a decade later, on July 20th, 1969 at 20:17:40 UTC, the Apollo 13 mission put Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin on the moon (“Theories”). Ever since that day the people have doubted the fact that we ever put…

about this great moment was not the truth? The moon landing conspiracy theory is one that is greatly followed and believed by many. It states that the moon landing was, in fact, fake. This conspiracy theory claims the moon landing was filmed on a space-like movie set. NASA created what they thought the moon surface would look like and placed Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin in the center of it. This theory suggests that the…

The best way to sum up the sixties is that it was an era with a multitude of ideological clashes. Americans were split on issues such as race, gender, and sexual orientation while the world was divided between Capitalism and Communism. These views can be found in American pop culture, especially literature. Themes such as gender equality, racial equality, anti-war sentiment, technological advancements, and religion can be found in literary pieces during the 1960s. On August 18, 1920, the 19th…

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…