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base station, and a stylus. The development of smartphones did not end there as in 1996, Nokia had entered the smartphone development fray, and had released the Nokia 9000 Communicator to the world. Unlike Simon, the 9000 Communicator featured a full QWERTY…

Throughout my school life I have had the pleasure of learning a great deal of skills and attitudes that have made me the rounded person I am today. In high school I was exposed to Typewriting using the Almina Method, that is, typing using the qwerty keyboard where different fingers were used for different keys in typing the letters QAZ, WSX, EDC, RFVTGB and YHN, UJM, IK,, OL., P; to learn how to type accurately. Try as I may, I kept making mistakes which eventually grew to…

Styles of Reasoning and Critical Junctures In this essay, the theoretical concepts of critical junctures, the related concept of path dependency, and styles of reasoning will be discussed in relation to each other. While styles of reasoning compare most directly with path dependency, there is still interesting insights to be gained from comparing styles of reasoning and critical junctures. Hacking’s ‘style of reasoning’ is a framework to understand the emergence and importance of various…

The Centennial Exhibition was an exhibition in Philadelphia of many inventions, including revolutionary ones like the telephone, the typewriter, the Corliss steam engine, the mechanical calculator, Popcorn, a piece of the statue of liberty, and the banana was brought to America. The Centennial Exhibition of 1876 was created to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the United States of America. “The International Exhibition of Arts, Manufactures and Products of the Soil and Mine, more simply…

Jared Diamond’s essay “Accepting or Rejecting innovation” talks about three main factors that cause people to accept or reject innovation. Firstly, the practical applicability of new technology is one reason that affect people to accept or reject new technology. The reason why people of ancient Mexico use wheeled vehicles as a toy instead of a mean of transportation was that they suffered from the shortage of domestic animals to control their wheeled vehicles. Hence, there were no benefits…

. The purpose of this experiment was to examine the role of attention in the performance of a new motor skill (cup stacking), to determine whether the level of attentional focus on the task impacted performance of the skill. The cup stacking experiment was performed under three different conditions; focused attention, response dual task, and cognitive dual task. Condition one was performed by solely focusing on completion of the task, while condition two, required the participant to respond to…

Parents and teachers have speculated since the emergence of texting if this “new age” communication technology hinders formality and accuracy of academic writing. David Crystal in “Why All the Fuss?” presents a compelling and persuasive argument emphasizing that texting has not negatively influenced academic writing, and that it may also have some benefits to students’ ability to write formally. I agree with Crystal’s emphasis that text language is not used in formal writing and that texting…

Due to the major developments in technology over the last 20 years, almost all children in Western countries such as UK, France and US have access to technology, namely computers and technology (S.Dutta, B.Bilbao-Osorio 2012). Many people believe computers have had a negative impact on the lives of children. However, there are those who think the effects are overwhelmingly positive. The internet has strengthened relationships with other countries amongst other things. The…

The word "Technology" doesn't have any boundaries. The new kind of innovations will always happen without any breakdown when it comes to the mobile phones or cell phones there are so many changes occurred and also new kind of technologies took place in the mobile industry. In 1973, Martin Cooper, an engineer who worked in Motorola had an idea of creating a handheld communication device which can carry by everyone to everywhere with the help of John. F Mitchell, he developed a mobile device,…

This report is about smartphones and how it has impact the way teenagers communicate. It consists of background information about smartphones and some of the examples of the pros and cons that smartphones can bring to teenagers. This report also shows strategies that can be used to help teenagers overcome some of the problems they encounter when using their smartphones. Survey responses from 30 teenagers aged 13 to 16 will also be shown and analysed. This report is about the impacts that…