What do you do when you have to meet an Internet stalker IRL? Like somebody who likes all your Instagram photos, but you're not friends. You know that someone displaying appreciation for the works you put into public places doesn't constitute stalking, right?
Not a good source for information but certainly something you should ALL LOOK at! This is an interactive map of the internet. The map is constructed so that those with more interaction are bigger bubbles. The placement of the bubble is determined by how often it interacts with the other websites. EG. When someone uses Google to get to Facebook, those two bubbles both get bigger and become closer together.
Alright folks this is a HUGE database of almost every statistic that one can think of. It is really quite fascinating to browse these charts. There are statistics on work injuries, product prices, unemployment figures, maps, stats on how people spend their time and just about everything else. Each stat is broken down into genders, demographics, ect. Massive source for RAW numbers about people.
This is an essay about technology and its effect on national security. Its an essay that was written by someone at Stanford University. Its not very long but has a credible appearance.
This is a really great but short article. Its about cyber terrorism specifically the "flame" virus. A lot of it is dialog from an interview. Its scary.
The fact that Twitter is driving a social revolution within Saudi Arabia is astounding to me. It is a social network and because accounts are private citizens of the monarchy are able to broadcast their opinions without being persecuted for it, it's kind of like an open forum.
Twitter in america is treated like a luxury the same way that water or electricity is taken for granted. We use our social networking to broadcast the type of frape we just ordered even though those tools are used for people to come together against the government. This is an interesting aspect that is much more relevent in other countries than America.
Very good video regarding our psychosocial well being and how it is affected by the internet. Teens who are addicted to the internet are 4x more likely to suffer daytime sleepiness.
This article is basically saying that relationships are being affected by technology. It brings up the point that if we have 1000 friends on Facebook how many of those friends are we actually keeping in contact with. Another point is that the more time we spend on social networking sites the less time we spend socializing face-to-face.
Sometimes Social networking makes it hard for us to understand who our real friends are. I think most of us are past having an exponential amount of friends but we certainly are obsessed with how we project ourselves on the internet. It's hard for us to maintain relationships or meet people online without questioning the realness of it.
NEW TECHNOLOGY AND THE END OF JOBS A technology revolution is fast replacing human beings with machines in virtually every sector and industry in the global economy. Already, millions of workers have been permanently eliminated from the economic process, and whole work categories and job assignments have shrunk, been restructured, or disappeared.
A technology revolution is fast replacing human beings with machines in virtually every sector and industry in the global economy. Already, millions of workers have been permanently eliminated from the economic process, and whole work categories and job assignments have shrunk, been restructured, or disappeared.
My topic is technology and how it is evolving and what type of people should be able to own these new technologies and this is showing us that the new technologies are shaping how our national security strategy is changing due to technology so the new technology that is created will also be needed to have like personal screening or something for the new technology.