Virtual world

Figure 1). However, unlike a typical skateboard, hoverboards operate electronically instead of manually. Since the appearance of hoverboards in the feature film Back to The Future, hoverboards have been a futuristic fantasy for millions across the world. Once thought to be an imposable technology was brought to life by the inventor Shane Chen. Shane Chan worked many years as a designer for the Chinese government, however he decided that he wanted to focus on creating his on company. Chen moved…

The Matrix with the readings from Plato and Descartes. What are some similarities and differences? The biggest similarity among The Matrix, Descartes’ musings and Plato’s cave analogy is that all three of these works doubt the reality of the world around us and raise the question of whether the reality we experience through our senses in tangible and objective, or is it just an illusion we create. The Matrix is the story about Neo who is thrown into this computer generated reality…

Perfect Day 7:30 A.M. I wake up in my king size bed to my alarm clock ringing. I get up and put on my new Voltron Legendary Defenders T-shirt and black ripped jeans. I go downstairs and look out one of the many large windows in my modern mansion. Looking out at the beautiful landscape on my private island. Gorillaz’s “Good Feel Inc.” plays through the house from my personal playlist. I go to my giant bathroom to get ready for today. 8:00 A.M. When I go downstairs for breakfast, I see that my…

Mid-Term Exam 1) Tom and Jerry are two friends with 10 and 2 toys each. If more friends come to visit Jerry, he may have to buy more toys, while Tom is not using his toys. So, Children keep all their toys in one big box and use them. This common big box is cloud computing. 2) I believe that “Maintenance Costs will be lower with cloud computing”. While moving from a private network to a cloud based network, the initial setup costs will be high. The cost required for setting up IT can never be…

In chapter four, “Communities and Network”, Baym focuses on online interaction and how it occurs, including communities and social network. Throughout this chapter, Baym stresses that the word community does not have one correct definition, but instead introduces five qualities found in both online groups and in many definitions of community creating online contexts. These five qualities include: space, shared practice, shared resources and support, shared identities, and interpersonal…

This article is about two people, Sarah Jeong and Kirsten Race explaining their own opinions about Pokemon Go. If Pokemon Go is a positive cultural force or if it’s an excuse for people to stare at their phone. During the summer of 2016, there’s a new game app called “ Pokemon Go”. Many people say that “Pokemon Go” is a bad game for people to play because they think kids playing the game could get kidnapped, if they’re paying too much attention on their phones. People can also risk their lives…

past month, the hottest new app craze across the world is Pokemon GO! An augmented reality game that places users in the hotseat as an aspiring trainer, tasked with the age-old mission of “catching ‘em all”. The biggest change in this game from entries in the traditional Pokemon series is that trainers have to venture out into the real world and use the augmented reality software and gps on their smartphones in order to find pokemon in the real world. A dream come true for both hardcore and…

technologies (ICT) and the telecommunication. According to Markovic (2010), almost 90% faculties in the USA and Europe are applying the e-learning approach to deliver the their course contents to the students, and learners at virtual universities are showing overwhelming interest in the virtual courses. He further added that percentage of institutions which only provided traditional education in the USA state was 2.4%. In this essay, the e-learning will be defined; then its importance in…

covered because the snowplows have not gone through yet, and people are just starting their day. Well, contrary to a typical snow day, students still have to get up to do schoolwork because school was not canceled, it was transformed in a virtual way. The idea of virtual classrooms taking place when there is too much snow on the ground first became a test trial in Bergen County of New Jersey in 2014. In this case, since it was a trial, Pascack Valley Regional High School planned to try this…

Education is the building block of society. Without it, the world would spiral downward. Naturally, individuals should want to receive the best education possible, right? But what is considered the “best” form of education? How can an individual determine what form is most effective when there are so many different ways of receiving an education? Every individual learns best under slightly different circumstances. It is possible for one type of schooling to be incredibly effective for one…