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Amazon.com: Prey (9780061703089): Michael Crichton: Books - 0 views

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Prey

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  • High-tech whistle-blower Jack Forman used to specialize in programming computers to solve problems by mimicking the behavior of efficient wild animals--swarming bees or hunting hyena packs, for example. Now he's unemployed and is finally starting to enjoy his new role as stay-at-home dad. All would be domestic bliss if it were not for Jack's suspicions that his wife, who's been behaving strangely and working long hours at the top-secret research labs of Xymos Technology, is having an affair. When he's called in to help with her hush-hush project, it seems like the perfect opportunity to see what his wife's been doing, but Jack quickly finds there's a lot more going on in the lab than an illicit affair. Within hours of his arrival at the remote testing center, Jack discovers his wife's firm has created self-replicating nanotechnology--a literal swarm of microscopic machines. Originally meant to serve as a military eye in the sky, the swarm has now escaped into the environment and is seemingly intent on killing the scientists trapped in the facility. The reader realizes early, however, that Jack, his wife, and fellow scientists have more to fear from the hidden dangers within the lab than from the predators without.
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The Technium: Fate of the Book - 3 views

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      Ashley Zielinski on 04 Nov 09
       
      It is funny to think back on how things used to be. Now we can sign on to the internet so easy as through the computer, phone or ipod. No one thinks about doing these things anymore when before it was amazing if you were able to get a lot of things done on the internet because dial up would take so long. The internet used to be so boring as now we are able to do things that we were never able to do before.
  • The idea that this world we are building is somehow diminishing communication is all wrong. In fact, it's enhancing communication. It is allowing all kinds of new language.
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      Ashley Zielinski on 04 Nov 09
       
      Many people seem to worry that communication is only based over computers now and that relationships are diminishing. I feel that relationships are just growing and experiencing new things. Instead of constantly worrying about how to approach things people are now able to find different ways to do things. It is opening a whole new world to us and allowing us to experience new things.
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  • You can't download it. That's the whole point. You want to download it so that you can read it like a book. But that's precisely what it can't be. You want it to be data, but it's experience.
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      Ashley Zielinski on 04 Nov 09
       
      With the internet, it seems that people continually compare this to a book and want to make it look like a book. Books are all that we have known up to this point so when reading things online we feel the need to make it look like a book. We need to realize that the internet is a whole new experience rather than comparing it to what we are used to experiencing. We need to get out of the idea in our head that it is all about the experience rather than concrete data that we are looking at.
  • There will be lots of things that will be similar to the physical world, and there will be lots of things that will be different. But it's going to be a space that's going to have a lot of the attributes that we like in reality--a richness, a sense of place, a place to be silent, a place to go deep.
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      Ashley Zielinski on 04 Nov 09
       
      It is hard to get used to something that is continually changing. People have to realize that with the ever changing world of technology things will constantly be different for us. We will still be able to do some things that we can experience in reality but there are some things that will be different. It is a whole new experience that we have to accept and a whole new idea that people have to learn to accept. We cannot push away technology we have to embrace it.
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Idea Lab - Becoming Screen Literate - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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      Ashley Zielinski on 23 Sep 09
       
      No longer do people focus on word of mouth but instead it seems as if people need to have something verified by technology. Instead of speaking to others, people find ways to communicate through technology and because of this people are more content keeping to themselves. It has become easier to find friends, date, and find ways to entertain yourself just through the use of technology. What more could people want? People are now able to rely solely on technology and no longer have to experience physical interaction in life.
  • We are becoming people of the screen. The fluid and fleeting symbols on a screen pull us away from the classical notions of monumental authors and authority.
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      Ashley Zielinski on 23 Sep 09
       
      This idea was discussed in class. Soon enough a screen will not be something that we look at but it will be something we live in. People are now visualizing everything more than ever before. Screens can provide people with pictures, text, and visual clips in order to get an idea or point across. We are becoming more and more a part of screens and eventually it seems as if we will just live within them rather than use them as a major part of our lives.
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  • We tend to think the tiger represents the animal kingdom, but in truth, a grasshopper is a truer statistical example of an animal. The handcrafted Hollywood film won’t go away, but if we want to see the future of motion pictures, we need to study the swarming food chain below — YouTube, indie films, TV serials and insect-scale lip-sync mashups — and not just the tiny apex of tigers.
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      Ashley Zielinski on 23 Sep 09
       
      People need to realize that as technology increases in the world the objects required to do the jobs as before are getting smaller. Now, no longer are video cameras required because it is getting to the point that phones are producing perfect videos recorded when needed. For a phone to do a job that a video camera could once do is amazing. Not only is it able to call, text, get email, take pictures, go on the internet, but also now it can take flawless videos. As time goes on, the technological objects that exist now will continue to decrease in size as people continue innovating the world that we live in today.
  • Even the greatest writers do their magic primarily by rearranging formerly used, commonly shared ones. What we do now with words, we’ll soon do with images.
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      Ashley Zielinski on 23 Sep 09
       
      College students seem to take for granted how easy it may be to find a definition or a link to a certain problem that is needed for homework. It comes easy to use to copy and paste words and sometimes it may be easy to do the same with pictures. However, it seems that as more and more generations continue growing up with technology the more they will be able to do without a problem. Already college students may look at the older generations that did not grow up with technology and question how they did it. As time goes on, younger generations will question us as how did we function without all these great technological innovations in our time. Just as we take copy and paste for granted, they will take certain aspects for granted as well.
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The Technium: Major Transitions in Technology - 0 views

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      Ashley Zielinski on 23 Sep 09
       
      It is important to notice that the inventions that people come up with are no longer the most important aspect. It really is the way that those inventions are now able to adapt to the new technology out there. When these new inventions are able to adapt, new ideas are then proposed and the structure of information is now radically reshaped. Although the inventions should still be highly recognized, society now has to be able to take all of those inventions and alter them to the constantly changing society.
  • No transition has affected our species, or the world at large, more than the creation of language. Indeed many would define humanity by its possession of true language.
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      Ashley Zielinski on 23 Sep 09
       
      The creation of language was by far the most important aspect in the world just by the way it has broken the barrier between people. Although at times people may think that because a person speaks a different language such as english and spanish, it may be hard to communicate with that person. However, I think that one of important ways of language would be the technical language. Regardless of whether or not a person speaks english or spanish when it comes to working with technology it is the same across the board.
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  • Over time language also enabled information to be stored in a memory greater than an individual’s recall. A language-based culture accumulated stories and oral wisdom to disseminate to future generations. T
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      Ashley Zielinski on 23 Sep 09
       
      It is interesting that it speaks about how information can be stored in a memory greater than a person could ever recall. This sentence makes me think about what we discussed in class the other day about the only way to ensure that you can get your information back again today is through the internet. By saving files on the internet, people are able to always access them. As before people used to rely on books to store all the information needed, people are now turning to the internet to do this job instead.
  • We inject order into everything we manufacture by designing it, but now we are also adding small microscopic chips that can perform small amounts of computation and communication. Even the smallest disposable item will share a small thin sliver of our collective mind.
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      Ashley Zielinski on 23 Sep 09
       
      It is amazing to think that this is the world that we are coming to after looking back on where we came from regarding information. Technology is now focusing on order and ensuring that the world is improving as each day passes. By giving technology a meaning of what it is, is only helping our society grow into becoming something bigger and more improved. As before people would have to interact with an object in order to get it to respond, now an object will be able to respond on its own.
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