Media technology

small minority of films and on-demand internet streaming media. The technology is mostly…

In the article “Can Students Have too Much Tech?” ,Susan Pinker cares about Barack Obama’s policy regarding students having too much technology. Pinker is a stakeholder who is involved in the controversy by being a Psychologist and Columnist. However Pinker is not the only stakeholder in this article. President Obama’s is also a stakeholder because he is the one making the agenda to promise to expand the internet. President Obama found out that the kids coming from struggling families with…

Technology, the word that literally and historically changed the world to be modern and forever changing. I considered myself a person that never abused technology, but this assignment probably made me realize more than expected. In other words, I have programmed myself to rely on technology profusely. The very first day when I initiated the journal entry in order to track my technology use, I expected to just write about my day and forget about it. However, by the end of the day as I analyzed…

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…

is in a continuous and non ending evolution that is going worldwide, viral and common between people and especially designers. In our society, technology is very important and is the dominant industry. Therefore, we as designers should consider working on ourselves to improve our skills, enrich our global knowledge and follow and learn every new technology that could help us build a better concept, that reaches both the market needs and society. Today we can only look at how the digital…

We can’t wait to check our emails, messages, or snapchat our friends. We are addicted and it is controlling our lives. The advancements and spread of technology have allowed for tremendous accomplishments including the acceleration of medical discoveries, efficiency in production of goods, and global scale education. However, the technology that so many of us are immersed in today, such as phones, laptops, and tablets, are increasingly becoming negative influences and we must dramatically…

conducted a survey asking about today's technology and what today's youth thinks about it. All the participants were between the ages of 14-17 years old. The purpose of this survey was to see if teens were able to acknowledge the truth about what technology has truly been doing to today's world. I hypothesized that most individuals would say that technology has helped more than hurt us. This is because this generation has grown up with the developments of technology and its benefits. I predict…

world, there is a parallel between the rapid advancement of technology and society’s morals that causes a change over time; this change can be for better or for worse. In the short story, Bloodchild, Octavia Butler shows this change in values through protagonist, Gan, as he struggles with his inner conscience when he is asked to kill an animal for the survival of the alien race. Similarly, in Girl Plugged In by Tiptree, progressions in technology allow people to control the mind of another body,…

The idea of “collaboration” and the ideas present in the book can help solve the technical, technological and social ingenuity gaps. At the beginning of the book, the author explain that they can solve the social ingenuity gap, but the last chapter that we had focused on (which was “Techno-Hubris”), the author mainly discussed issues on the technical and the technological ingenuity gaps. As we looked further in the book, the author give us valid examples of each ingenuity gap that make his…

Technology and the Generational Toll Recent technological advancements have benefited our world in ways that could've only been imagined just 50 years ago. Not only is it reliable, it's also practical and allows people to connect with friends and family thousands of miles away. Technology has also proven to be useful in the classroom. Information is now just seconds away. However, technology has many downfalls. Technology is good for conveying information or exchanging news, however this…