Opportunity The internet has revolutionized the way that people communicate around the world by becoming the most preferred tool for communication. The use of the internet has exponentially increased since it was first invented (pictured to right). There are now approximately 3.4 billion internet users worldwide. Every day on…
overturn Internet censorship. To introduce my topic, I can begin with an anecdote about the “Big Yellow Duck” meme, introducing what it was and what it did. I will show the lengths…
remembering exceptions to remembering becoming a default as forgetting becomes an exception. With companies like Google and Yahoo! documenting the search histories of all of its users and keeping these pieces of information for years, which can inevitably be traced back to the individual, it's difficult for digital actions to be kept private. Nearly every…
History has shown that when new technologies have been introduced, many claim utopian ideals and fantasies about how they are going to shape the future. The words ‘life-changing’, ‘revolutionary’, and ‘radical’ are often thrown around. In 1989, Landgon Winner even coined a term describing this phenomena, “mythinformation: the almost religious conviction that a widespread adoption of computers and communications systems and communications systems along with easy access to electronic information…
use. This sign is located on the second floor of the university centre near the elevators. I chose this sign because I am fascinated by the deeply ingrained dependence of the internet in Canadian societies. Specifically, how the internet has altered communication among individuals in Canadian society. The internet has been available for use for a few decades, but in comparison to the rest of human history it is a fairly recent invention. Prior to the use of the internet, people would…
“They, Say I Say,” titled “Is Google Making Us Stupid,” written by Nicholas Carr, elaborates how the internet is changing the way humans think. Without research or evidence, Carr uses a play on emotion to draw in his readers. While using a collection of historical anecdotes, Carr argues that the internet has exploited the plasticity of the human brain. The brain holds billions of connections, formed by the neurons, which constantly change. Carr states “The human brain is almost…
Instead, the Trump administration is looking to essentially deregulate the internet industry and reduce government oversight into big internet providers. The FCC previously regulated this industry back in 2015, in favor of consumer protection and regulation among all service providers. This first amendment for the internet industry is to provide equal protection for all information shared online from any potential voice. The FCC has broken its rules down into 3 major components. The first rule…
The internet has become a cult that worships eccentricity. Take, for example, the killing of Harambe, a gorilla at the Cincinnati Zoo. After a three-year-old boy got inside the gorilla’s enclosure, zoo officials decided to kill Harambe, fearing for the boy’s life. The controversial decision and odd news story has become the internet’s latest obsession. Through memes like chanting “Dicks out for Harambe,” saying “Harambe died for our sins,” and putting Harambe as a write-in candidate in the US…
Though the internet has caused us lose the ability to focus, the benefits that come from using it far outway the negative aspects of it, as presented in The Shallows by Nicholas Carr. Each new technology that man has created has brought with it changes to the way people think. Carr states that “Every technology is an expression of human will. Through our tools, we seek to expand our power and control over our circumstances over nature, over time and distance, over one another” pg 44.…
Important Aspects of the Internet-Tutorial 1 The Internet plays an important role in every person’s day to day activities. It’s in basic terms a worldwide system of computer networks, where any person has the ability to access a wide variety of information in a small period of time. When speaking about the internet, one should focus on the History of it as well. The Idea behind the Internet was first started by J.C.R. Licklider who envisioned a globally interconnected set of computers through…