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…
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…
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…
“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…
says little about his intelligence, but speaks volumes about his laziness.” This quote was said by Mark Kennedy an American writer. As this may be a funny quote it is also true. Technology has been growing rapidly over the course of history. We lived in a world where writing letters were the normal thing to do. However, things have changed and people are not the way they use to be. We have become anti-social and a shy society. It has come to a point where people have no self control with using…
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.…
Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains by Nicholas Carr is an informational novel about the effects the internet has on us. As a writer, Carr focuses on technology and culture. He has written various essays, blog posts, and other novels before The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains. Carr covers various topics such as our shortened attention span, which leads to our inability to read lengthy articles and books, supplementary information to solidify his arguments, and…
Origin The Internet has proven to be one of the greatest advancements of the twentieth century. So much so that many could not bear the possibility of not having access to it at all times. The Internet has gone through three basic forms during it’s growth, it started as an idea, became a reality as ARPANET, and expanded to the world as the Internet that is known today. Johnny Ryan points out in his book A History of the Internet and the Digital Future that the Internet is the result of a desire…
United States. According to President Barack Obama, throughout our nation’s history, people were spied on for the sake of national security. He claims that people who are not a threat to national security were not spied on (Obama). Not only is it a possibility that the government is spying on its own people, but the internet and certain corporations are gathering data on its users. When a user…