The experiences endured during high school and college are very crucial stages in the development of character in any individual. The experiences students participate in during this time will mold them into the person they will eventually become in the future. Through these experiences teenargers and young adults go through a very meticulous time period,
Over the past decade technology has slowly creeped into almost every aspect of our lives. As a society, we have accepted technology and are now beginning to embrace it due to its practicality and effectiveness. Moreover, we are now reaching the stage of wearing technology, such as products like the Google glasses and Apple Watch,
If you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs and blaming it on you, If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you, But make allowance for their doubting too; If you can wait and not be tired by waiting, Or being lied about, don’t deal in
On June 21, 2018 PBS aired a debate in their program Point Taken, discussing if technology is making us smarter or dumber. In the debate, Emily Dreyfuss and Kathryn Finney advocated that technology is making us smarter, and Daniel Levitin and Jeff Glasse advocated that technology is making us dumber. This debate is highly recommended for
Over the past weeks on the Who Controls your Digital World First-Year-Seminar, the classroom has been discussing about the side effects of technology in our society. The class even went through a proper debate, arguing rather technology has done more good to us than bad. Due to the fact that this is such a relevant
Whenever we step into a theater we can always notice who is in the audience along with you watching the film or performance, and by assessing the situation you can depict if the people accompanying you makes you uncomfortable. The same ideology applies to a friend gathering in a party or restaurant, by analyzing the
The most prominent type of bullying in today’s society is cyberbullying, due to the exponential technological opportunities being created at every second because of the internet. As Bahati Rusell reminds us, words can hurt, and in his blog post Cyberbullying and Social Media he attempts to address this issue by sharing his opinion on the subject
We are in the era of Information, we literally have the access of almost all collective human knowledge by the touch of buttons and a screen. The common saying, “Information is power,” is a testament for our addiction with technology, because we aware that with technology we can access a lot of information. Nevertheless, we
A patient walks into a room and has symptoms consistent with boringness, sadness, and depression. The brilliant diagnostician discovers the patient’s illness and prescribes the medicine to help treat it, technology. Just like medicine, technology is treating our curiosity and boringness. However, like any other drug we can become addicted and it may also cause
People have come to the assumption that technology is here for society, to ameliorate your lives, after all technology literally means applicating scientific knowledge into a practical purpose. However, the article How Technology is Hijacking Your Mind — from a Magician and Google Design Ethicist by Tristan Harris explains how technology is actually manipulating us to their benefit,
