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innovation has swept over the Earth, blanketing our cultures with Cell Phones, Microwaves, and the peculiar creation labeled simply, “The Internet”. Emerging to the public in the 1990’s, the Internet is a vast collection of databases stored all around the world, allowing anyone with a computer and access to the internet to view virtually anything you might want to learn about. However, even in its early age, the Internet displayed curious properties, as popular tech-cartoonist Scott Adams…

I believe that the government has some federal duty to monitor internet content. Since the internet is such a profitable place to buy and sell goods we, as a country, need some sort of policy of the government's involvement in monitoring the internet. We are able to do, search, buy and sell practically anything on the internet so there has to be some sort of limit to the things that are on the internet. In the cases of someone buying guns and such those people being linked with terrorism, seeing…

Title “ The kind of deep reading that a sequence of printed pages promotes is valuable not just for the knowledge we acquire from the author’s words but for the intellectual vibrations those words set off within our minds. In the quiet spaces opened up by the sustained, undistracted reading of a book…we make our own associations, draw our own references and analogies, foster our own ideas.” Nicholas Carr concludes his article “ Is Google Making Us Stupid? ” by stressing the significance in…

there are numerous applications created to do a phone scan and to check newly installed applications to ensure your phone is protected from viruses. The world wide web is like playing Russian roulette because of the possibility of contracting a virus or worm. Hackers across the globe will forever be a serious threat to citizens around the world and National Security. The Department of Defense along with the Department of Homeland Security oversee security measure to protect the United…

But with heavy consequences for most retaliation methods, regulation of social media within the United States is also an appealing and practical option. In an era where many Americans look to social media to find their news, transparency and accuracy on these platforms has become increasingly important. Russia leveraged these platforms to spread its ideology, and the government could work with companies to prevent this from happening again. Currently, there are several bills in Congress meant to…

Now a days kids and adults are relying on their computer or their smartphone to get all the information that they need. The internet is an easier way to find information altogether, which will speak more to the youth age. The internet can be seen to be a short cut to learn, but in reality it is actually teaching us more because of all the different sources that are available unlike a simple book or article. As source G suggests, “for Lunsford, technology isn’t killing our ability to write. It…

confidentiality of user’s information, and agreed to implement a privacy program that will be subject to monitoring for 20 years” (WSJ). Even the big company gets in trouble with FTC regarding their “privacy”. Google is probably the biggest search engine in the world. In 2012, they were charged with a fine of $22.5 million to settle FTC charges because they misrepresented the privacy assurances to Apple’s safari users. FTC discover that Google placed tracking “cookies” and serve targeted ads to…

Here is a fun fact, Google is making us stupid. Think about this you’re on earth, but without your phone or tablet, you would be bored out of your mind and want to know a way to be able to distract yourself. The articles we read state that Google is making us stupid. I honestly think that Google is making our generation dumber. First of all, you would think that Google is making us smarter because it’s able to access us information in the blink of an eye. The truth is, It’s not making us…

isn’t worth monitoring him or her, especially if it is that bond that would protect your child from the dangers of the Internet in the first place. My parents warned me about the dangers of the Internet even before I even typed my way into the online world. They taught me how to block and avoid sites dangerous to me, my family, or anyone else using our home computer, so they wouldn’t have to resort to using spyware on all our computers at home. Before children go online and use the Internet,…

Have you ever thought of how illegal good are sold on the internet or wanted to understand the reason why bitcoin was created? “The Dark Net” written by Jamie Bartlett, journalist and technology blogger of The Telegraph, gives a first person perspective of the darkest part of the net. Be warned: this book contains sensitive and disturbing topics and is not for all audiences. From exposing online cam girls to their friends and family, to a man discussing his experience when caught and arrested…