crescendos until it overpowers the piano. Then the instrumental transition into an uptempo techno beat. As the chorus develops, the beat and techno escalate. Then a deeper beats start to emerge in the background. Once the chorus concludes, the techno music lowers in volume and the piano returns, and Ne-yo’s high vocals take center stage. As Ne-yo finishes the second verse, the piano wanes out again and the techno music resurfaces. The remainder of the song is a merger of Ne-yo’s high vocals and…
and delicious than McDonald’s regular menu. But, most of the population in America do not know about the secret menu orders. Not only the customers, but also the McDonald’s employees do not know about the secret menu orders. Only the people who are techno savvy knew about the secret menu. However, some of the general public claim that it was not a secret menu, but a special order created by a random customer. For example, one of the famous item from the secret menu is ‘BIG McCHICKEN’ have to be…
boy and a little girl, who she believes are her boyfriend/husband and her daughter. She starts to be followed by someone who wants to kill her and after being helped by a girl who met in a gas store while escaping she has been told that people are techno-zombies and either want just to film her or want to kill her. Towards the end of the episode we found out that it is all part of a play, she actually took part of the murder of the girl she thought was her daughter, she was pushed to believe it…
conducted on the study of previous technological revolutions. Professor Carlotta Perez, in her paper Technological Revolutions and Techno-economic Paradigms, researched five successive technological revolutions and found that technological innovations reveal a pattern in the way they diffuse (Perez, 2009). It is my contention that there is nothing unique about this techno-economic paradigm shift except the innovations. The diffusion patterns that Postman and Perez described will repeat…
After reading “Is Ethno-techno exploiting world music?” written by Tony Naylor, there are many perspectives on world music given by several artists. Firstly, Naylor mentions about the positive perspectives received from Ricardo Villalobos, who was inspired by ethnography. He mixes Latin music with electronic styles to create a wonderful music while also follows the cultural rules of music. Hence, “he retains the spirit of music,” said Swiss-Chilean DJ. Swiss-Chilean DJ and producer Luciano also…
on the influence of “new smart world” on us, authors noticed the term techno-social engineering. This concept is about creating and designing tools to socialize, and to shape people’s minds. People spend a lot of time, chatting and surfing the Net, however, Selinger and Frischmann argues that people are wasting their time in the internet, since it distracts them from the relationships with their relatives and surroundings. Techno-social engineering also helps cultures to develop moral standards,…
Today, people are crazy about music. They want to listen their favourite music whenever they have leisure time. Music is created to give you pleasure. The fascinating world of music lets you enjoy music in one form or other. There are various types of music these days: pop music, folk music, jazz music and rock music. All these type of music are enjoyable to hear. The songs take you through different emotions. Jazz Jazz music is a very popular form of music, this form of music has been a…
Similitude Cult We live in a world where being part of a group is not acceptable, yet being an individual is perceived as weird. Who are we? We are a group of individuals who are exactly the same. Between February 25 and 26, 2016, the Connecticut College Dance Club hosted a performance entitled “Pivot,” in Myers dance studio which included thirteen pieces of original choreography by Connecticut College students. Kelley Fairman’s work, Atlas consisted of six dancers and was performed as the…
My preadolescent self and engineer father often talked during the quiet midnight hours as our family travelled from Gauteng to Cape Town. Such powwows eschewed expected paternal patterns. Instead, we were waxing over Quantum Physics, Thermodynamics, and Artificial Intelligence. The eternal thought-experiment of alternative histories always haunts. For example, what if these talks turned to other relevant topics, such as social matters? O, if one could obviate in retrograde! Truly our wounds…
are four major types of planned change that represent the major change methods used and include human process intervention, techno-structural intervention, strategic change interventions, and lastly human management interventions (Cummings & Worley, 2015, p 157). The intervention type that will be used in the case of Xerox’s It department is techno-structural intervention. Techno-structural intervention is the change that emphasizes on technological and structural change in an organization. This…