Who Controls Your Digital World

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In Vannevar Bush’s article, “As We May Think”, Bush goes into detail of how the technology from the past, such as the telegraph, has altered the way in which humans think. As new technological advances evolve on earth, the research do...

The internet is a vast tool that allows for people to utilize it to their best ability. The internet and the web gives people the option to look for any piece of information in the blink of an eye. Although some people may retain information in their h...

One of the points that was really important within the article is how technology and the web are continuously changing. The author mentioned how, “Once upon a time, the web was merely a publication medium, in which publishers (professional or amateur) uploaded passive web pages to servers.” This stuck out to me because nowadays technology

Technology has changed our lives in ways that are clear to us and in ways that are underlying. It is clear that the internet is helping us to advance as a society, but is it hurting us too? In, “The Internet’ Everything you ever need to know” written by John Naughton, the idea of how

“digital technology has provided internet users with software tools which make it trivially easy to copy, edit, remix and publish anything that is available in digital form” This quote shows how users are now given the chance to do what ever they want with the internet. This means that if they ever want to edit

Manuel Castells, talks about informed bewilderment in the Guardian article. This concept really relates to what I focus on with information literacy and digital literacy. What is Google doing to our brains and is it making us stupid? More importantly, how do we guard against the negative changes that technology use may create, but take

The internet is something that will never stop. Without the internet people will have to get out of their houses and read a book. With society leaning on the internet as their own library it becomes the building blocks of the world. The technology has had such advancements that we use it for education. Is

We never truly realize how much of our daily routine is dependent on the internet. We use it all the time without even realizing it (–> “or do the 1,001 other things that have become as natural as breathing.”). It seems like humanity depends on the internet and without it companies would die and people would loose

The Bush article was very technology friendly and showed me that some uses of technology are greatly needed for people’s jobs. To me, seeing how some machinery is depended on so heavily in some jobs, makes me think differently about how I thought most jobs are man-run. For example, many libraries are using The Encyclopedia