Category: FYS 142

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

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

Although such an old piece of our history in the research of technology, “As We May Think” written by Dr. Vannevar Bush in 1945 brings up many topics and issues of today’s current technology. It is difficult to imagine where technology and the internet itself will be 70 years from now, will the internet still

For this class I have multiple expectations that I hope I can accomplish throughout the semester. For example, I would really like to able to work on my writing skills and be able to call myself a college-level writer. Also, I want to be able to annotate articles like I know I should be able

Photography: “Certainly progress in photography…” Photography is an example of how technology is evolving and changing Dry photography→ new technique to create photography “For the biologists, and particularly for the medical scientists, there can be little indecision, for their war has hardly required them to leave the old paths. Many indeed have been able to

While we take our iPhones and iPads to every destination, it is interesting to think about the future of technology from the millennial standpoint in 2018 America. This future provokes thoughts such as, Where do we go from here? Is there more room to improve? In 1945, Vennevar Bush poses these questions in his article, “As We

Who controls your digital world? A question many of us may ask ourselves in this day in age of technology. From FYS 142 I expect to learn how to use the digital world we are given to my advantage. Technology is a prime part of my lifestyle. It isn’t just about posting pictures to Instagram,

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