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Lany Miller

The Internet transforms modern life - CNN - 0 views

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internet transforms technology

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  • In 1994, most people had to call the bank to check their balances. Or inquire in person, or wait for a paper statement to arrive in the mail
  • experimental browser called Mosaic, followed by an improved browser from Netscape
  • Today, the audience for the Web numbers more than one billion and is growing
    • Lany Miller
      Lany Miller on 09 Feb 11
       
      In feed the amount of people who are currently using the feed is everyone, and almost everyone in our society uses the internet.
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    • Lany Miller
      Lany Miller on 09 Feb 11
       
      The feed was a new way life, and so is the internet, and since it was introduce to many of us early in our childhood we have become very dependent on it.
  • According to the Pew Internet & American Life Project, fewer than one in seven Americans were online in 1995.
    • Lany Miller
      Lany Miller on 09 Feb 11
       
      A few people just used the feed int he book, and when the internet was beginning to become huge, only a few people (less than seven) were using it. Now, everyone has a feed,and everyone uses the internet.
  • Lany Miller on 01 Feb 11
     
    How the internet is taking over what people used to be able to do.
Dan Tusler

Is Internet Access a Human Right? - 2 views

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  • content in the knowledge that the uproar from a few tens of thousands of Western internet users doesn't accurately reflect the desires and concerns of millions of people around the world who are online
    • Dan Tusler
      Dan Tusler on 28 Jan 11
       
      This exceprt shows that this "Internet Culture" that is created with this mass communication system has many different aspects. It comments on the internet activism, which basically is commentary on somebody or some countries own issues. It expains that because of this instantainiouse information and communication, can still not acuratly reflect how everything is.
  • Dan Tusler on 28 Jan 11
     
    This article is about weather the internet could be considered a human right. This raises questions about the importance of internet and the ease of communication it provides. Is it a fundamental right of human beings to communicate with other beings?
Kevin Zhou

Egypt's Autocrats Exploited Internet's Weaknesses - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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egypt Internet shut down

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  • But now, as Egyptian engineers begin to assess fragmentary evidence and their own knowledge of the Egyptian Internet’s construction, they are beginning to understand what, in effect, hit them. Interviews with many of those engineers, as well as an examination of data collected around the world during the blackout, indicate that the government exploited a devastating combination of vulnerabilities in the national infrastructure.
    • Kevin Zhou
      Kevin Zhou on 17 Feb 11
       
      Everyone is too dependent on internet, similar to how everyone is too dependent on the feed in Feed.
  • For all the Internet’s vaunted connectivity, the Egyptian government commanded powerful instruments of control: it owns the pipelines that carry information across the country and out into the world.
    • Kevin Zhou
      Kevin Zhou on 17 Feb 11
       
      The internet is the place that contains all the information that anyone wants to find. By having it shut down within Egypt, it prevents information from leaving or entering, causing people to have no ideas. However, another way to gain information is also through books, but this way has become less common around people as the faster internet. This is related to the Feed as people has found no reason to use books to find any information and use their feed to find everything, much like us using the internet to find everything instead of books.
  • Kevin Zhou on 17 Feb 11
     
    Egypt's internet
Nathan Nast

The invention of the Internet has had negative effects on our civilization « ... - 1 views

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  • People also use the Internet to steal other people’s money or spread bad things like gossips or unfounded criticisms.
    • Nathan Nast
      Nathan Nast on 11 Feb 11
       
      This also connects to the high school, where cyber bulling is a big problem.
  • When children went home, some of them go straight to their room to start their computers instead of having a chat with their parents.
    • Nathan Nast
      Nathan Nast on 11 Feb 11
       
      This is one example of kids not having a good relationship with their family. This is related to the feed because both kids don't have a good relationship with their parents, due to the amount of internet.
  • We rely on it to communicate instead of talking to each other, and our relationship between each other become distant
    • Nathan Nast
      Nathan Nast on 11 Feb 11
       
      What will happen if our relationships become more and more distant? I believe relationships will become viral.
  • Nathan Nast on 11 Feb 11
     
    This is a good article showing how kids plug into the internet. It also talks about how criminals can get more information.
kaylyn kilmain

Is Internet Dependence Helping Us Evolve or Devolve? - Technorati Technology - 0 views

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dependence internet technology

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  • op, as well as pocket sized smartphones becoming the must have gadget for digital consumers, Google is becoming more and more prevalent in our everyday lives
    • kaylyn kilmain
      kaylyn kilmain on 09 Feb 11
       
      google is becoming a everyday need for most people
    • Nathan Nast
      Nathan Nast on 09 Feb 11
       
      Google is replacing everything from cookbooks to dictionaries. Soon everything will be on Google.
    • john peacen
      john peacen on 01 Mar 11
       
      true google has everything book, translate, news,
  • kaylyn kilmain on 28 Jan 11
     
    this article is talking about how having more technology can cause people to be more dependent on finding information on the internet. this results in loss of memory and only being able to remember how you found the information and not what it is.
Lany Miller

Technology: Is It Taking Over Our Lives? - Crusader - Opinions - 0 views

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technology

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  • The advancement of technology can be quite spoiling. With word processors, the internet and web messaging, our daily lives are much smoother and less stressful when we use computers and other electronic devises that categorize our schedules and plans better than our own memory.
    • Lany Miller
      Lany Miller on 09 Feb 11
       
      In feed, the feed is designed to think for them and do all of the work. Now, the internet today has everything on it. Even things that are at the library. People turn to the dictionary to find the meaning of something, but now they're using the computer. In feed when Violet says a word that Titus doesn't know, all he has to do is look it up through his feed and there he has it.
    • Lily Pelanne
      Lily Pelanne on 09 Feb 11
       
      Technology is taking over our lives!l!
  • About 23 million households in North America have a broadband connection, and over the next five years, that number is likely to triple.
    • Lany Miller
      Lany Miller on 09 Feb 11
       
      23 million, that's a lot of people with internet connection. Just like in feed everyone has a feed. It's become a necessity in peoples lives.
  • eb with me wherever I go has two sides. I do enjoy being able to read my e-mail, talk to people, and lately, check the o
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  • The idea of having the World Wide Web with me wherever I go has two sides. I do enjoy being able to read my e-mail, talk to people, and lately, check the online Facebook.
    • Lany Miller
      Lany Miller on 09 Feb 11
       
      It's great to be able to check email wherever you are by your phone, iPods, or iPads. But some of the technology seems to have gone a little too far.
  • I already find myself waking up in the morning and immediately heading to my computer to see who left me an instant message or what new friend is stalking me on the Facebook ... so what will happen if I have the internet with me at all time? The habit of being online will turn into a necessity, and perhaps that is not such a good thing.
  • kaylyn kilmain on 10 Feb 11
     
    the internet is becoming our own memory and becoming addictive.
Robert Porter

'Like' it or not, online ads are getting personal - CNN.com - 1 views

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Facebook Online Media advertising like Privacy Users Cookies Cnn Article Mozilla Google Chrome Business technology social

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  • industry speak for ads that target users through the use of cookies that can track your internet browsing and shopping history, among other activities.
    • Robert Porter
      Robert Porter on 09 Feb 11
       
      Some people might view this as an invasion of privacy. The use of cookies by the industry to 'track' the users activities sure does point out a valid point. Most consumers would see advertisers as using 'personal' information to target what the users might have more interest in. In the eyes of the consumers this is seen as generally bad, in the eyes of the advertisers this type of advertising would not only keep away the advertisements that people don't want to see for products they don't need, but for advertisements for products they might want and need as the user travels to different sites. Cookies enable for this to happen, and although there is work on the web-browsers to keep advertisers away from information "internet browsing and shopping history". A question is asked though, how much personal information have people been giving away unknowingly?
    • Jeffrey Baudisch
      Jeffrey Baudisch on 14 Feb 11
       
      I think that you have a good point that people find online shopping a invasion of property. I believe though that the risks can be avoided if you are smart about where you shop.
    • Dan Tusler
      Dan Tusler on 01 Mar 11
       
      This can be related to the feed itself in a sense that it works just like a cookie. It tracks everything you do and basically uses the information it collect to try to market a product or get you to spend money. This could be where M.T Anderson got his inspiration for the feed.
  • "If you have something that you don't want anyone to know, maybe you shouldn't be doing it in the first place."
    • Robert Porter
      Robert Porter on 09 Feb 11
       
      -Google CEO Eric Schmidt. Schmidt has a valid point that what people do on the internet shouldn't be something people want to conceal. Yet there should be limits that advertisers and any site that uses peoples information on. People don't want to know the fact that everything they do and click on in a site will be recorded down as activity and then process to be put into a category. Just like in Feed, where Titus and his friends go to the mall the Feed immediately advertises cloths that they would want, or cloths that the feed thinks they want. Even with no alert the feed does this to Titus throughout the book, even when he is just laying there or sleeping the Feed advertises things that he would want and that he should by those things based on his shopping history and habits, just like these advertisements are foreseen to be becoming.
    • Jeffrey Baudisch
      Jeffrey Baudisch on 14 Feb 11
       
      If our information is so open then should we even put out any information? The Feed uses the peoples information to advertise to them so why don't we let the advertisers do the same and make shopping easier.
    • Robert Porter
      Robert Porter on 01 Mar 11
       
      Because information is vital, people view information (that is helpful) as valid sources of income. Sites that take your information for something can in all their rights, sell it to another advertising company. Hence the source of spam emails. So giving away personal information is a bad idea for you and the site that is distributing your information should not have that right.
  • Robert Porter on 09 Feb 11
     
    The Article By CNN states an uncomfortable outlook onto what might be a more personal advertising than ever before. Big sites such as Facebook and Twitter are mentioned in this article about tracking your 'likes' onto post, businesses, products and similar things among them. Both Google and Mozilla have recognized this as a slight problem as they both are working on a choice to block out cookies (For anyone who doesn't know what cookies are, they are what track your every move on the internet and any site you go to can have access to them, within limits of course). Questions are raised about this though, by both my Anderson and I. If this persist and evolves, would this type of advertising become as radical as it is seen in Feed? Would the advertising for this become more personal? In what limits are these ads allowed to do this within the law? Who would pay nearly 100,000 dollars to advertise in an social site? How far would advertisers go to make more money by 'invading' someones privacy or monitoring someones online activity? All are valid concerns raised from this article, and should be considered as time goes on.
Christina Chan

At Flickr, Fending Off Rumors and Facebook - NYTimes.com - 1 views

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Flickr Facebook photosharing social view camera storage viewers family friends

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  • “The Internet is starting to rotate around the axis of Facebook — not everything, but everything social,” Mr. Rohan said. “Yahoo and Flickr don’t really have the gravitational pull that would make Flickr the axis that they once imagined.”
  • A pioneer in combining photos with social networking features, Flickr is facing a stiff challenge from newer services. In addition to fighting rumors, it is having to work hard to keep its users returning as Facebook widens its lead as the popular destination for sharing party, vacation and family snapshots.
  • “The Internet is starting to rotate around the axis of Facebook — not everything, but everything social,” Mr. Rohan said. “Yahoo and Flickr don’t really have the gravitational pull that would make Flickr the axis that they once imagined.”
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  • “The Internet is starting to rotate around the axis of Facebook — not everything, but everything social,” Mr. Rohan said. “Yahoo and Flickr don’t really have the gravitational pull that would make Flickr the axis that they once imagined.”
  • Flickr’s free service lets users display 200 of their most recently uploaded photos. For more, users must pay $25 annually.
  • ore improvements are on the horizon, he said. The goal, Mr. Rothenberg said, is to recall the experie
  • “What we are trying to do at Flickr ultimately is to use all these new technologies to get back to that experience — to get back to that rich storytelling experience — and to do it in the only way it can be done, w
  • “What we are trying to do at Flickr ultimately is to use all these new technologies to get back to that experience — to get back to that rich storytelling experience — and to do it in the only way it can be done, with the technologies of today,” he said.
  • Christina Chan on 04 Feb 11
     
    Flickr, a photosharing service, starts slumping and is struggling to keep up with the tough competition they face from others. Questions this article raises is whether Flickr really isn't a good site for exchanging photos between people AND if nowadays people are swayed in a revolution where people view photos online instead of flipping through photo albums.
  • Christina Chan on 04 Feb 11
     
    I can connect this to Feed because when more popular websites or things are high in demand...you start to see a slump in the other. In this situation, Flickr is losing their fan base while Facebook is becoming more widely known & is the top social networking website. In Feed Titus's dad said that the air factories are going to replace the deforested trees in Jefferson park in order to make way for air factories. Both of these situations show radicalism & the rapid pace of the ever-changing world.
Christina Chan

Pope Warns of Alienation Risk in Social Networks - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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Pope warns alienation risk social networks dehumanize warnings

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  • He said the possibilities of new media and social networks offered "a great opportunity," but warned of the risks of depersonalization, alienation, self-indulgence, and the dangers of having more virtual friends than real ones.
  • He urged users of social networks to ask themselves "Who is my 'neighbor' in this new world?" and avoid the danger of always being available online but being "less present to those whom we encounter in our everyday life."
  • He said social networking can help "dialogue, exchange, solidarity and the creation of positive relations" but he also offered a list of warnings.
  • Christina Chan on 04 Feb 11
     
    In this article by the New York Times the Pope warns the mass majority of the people that social networks can dehumanize people. People are becoming more addicted to the virtual world. Questions it raises are that: 1) Will technology & robots one day perhaps replace human beings? 2) Do you think Americans are spending too much time websurfing the internet instead of seeing friends & getting daily exercise?
  • Christina Chan on 04 Feb 11
     
    I can connect to Feed because in the book Titus is blinded by everything related to media & all these cool gadgets & the Pope is highlighting all the negative effects like depersonalization, alientation, self-indulgence, & the dangers of having more virtual friends than real ones."
Hailey Kolb

Book Review - 'Virtually You' and 'Reality Is Broken' - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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  • you away from the difficulties of real life. It lets you customize your fantasies
    • Hailey Kolb
      Hailey Kolb on 18 Feb 11
       
      just like the feed the internet allows people to customize themselves the way they want
  • In short, everything you thought was good about the Internet — information, access, personalization — is bad.
    • Hailey Kolb
      Hailey Kolb on 18 Feb 11
       
      all of the new things that technology is offering people is taking over their minds
Ryan Clarke

Young People Cop to It: Technology Is Bad for Us - ABC News - 2 views

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  • Time-waster: "Technology is the key to procrastination," said Kenny Kobetsky, 14. Eighty percent of the class said they had missed sleep because of playing on the Internet, 50 percent said they had forgotten to do homework for the same reason. "The Internet is just so tantalizing," said Nick Gregov, 14. "I actually think McDonald's is healthier than my computer," added Blake Billiet, 13. Though the students did admit that the Web and cell phone can save time that used to be burned up driving to the store or library, few felt that these gains exceeded the many hours wasted on text or Web surfing.
    • Ryan Clarke
      Ryan Clarke on 16 Feb 11
       
      This represents the negative side of technology and it is affecting all ages from various important tasks
  • chris zabriskie on 17 Feb 11
     
    technology is just easier to access and has more entertainment on it that doesn't mean it is by itself bad for us because kids will always pick something more fun than homework because homework is boring. if you had the chocie between having a party or hanging out with friends and playing a game outside or doing homework i wouldn't pick the homework.
lauren hanson

How Ads Affect Our Memory - Technology Review - 1 views

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  • just seeing an ad on a Web page can impact memory. The findings could have a significant impact on the way online advertising is made and metered.
    • lauren hanson
      lauren hanson on 04 Feb 11
       
      Titus has the feed control what he thinks by the ads that pop up on his feed. This makes Titus want ridiculous things when they aren't really needed.
  • Subjects who paid attention to a banner advertisement were more likely than those who didn't to recall whole words and facts from the ad--facts stored in explicit memory
  • traditional ideas about media impact to the Internet. In other mediums, such as television, advertisers do not typically assume that audience members will interact with the ad.
  • lauren hanson on 04 Feb 11
     
    Ads affect our memory by the way that we interact with the ads itself. Its through your conscious and unconscious mind. Titus and his friends are playing music and really it was the advertisements jungle in the back of his mind going on. Advertisement's try to tell us that we need it and that it will improve are life drastically. Weather or not the ad is harmful or not they still want you to buy it and we remember that ad from your eyes liking what you see so you later on go and buy it.
kaylyn kilmain

Buying Online Has Its Pros and Cons - The Advantages and Disadvantages of Buying Online... - 1 views

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buying online has

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  • ou can do it 24/7. You can shop whenever you want
  • 3. Wide variety of stores within a few clicks. This is very important for me since there are few stores in our locale.
  • kaylyn kilmain on 09 Feb 11
     
    shopping online is useful to be able to buy things from different places you are not able to get to. there are more items online then there are at the store
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  • Jonathan McDavid on 18 Feb 11
     
    there may be more options to buying online and may seem easyer, but in regards to feed it takes away the human to human natrual interaction.it can be good but not at the expence that your ONLY buying online. in addition it can have a lot of credit card trouble.... just sayin.
  • Victor Shen on 18 Feb 11
     
    Always good to go shopping on line, but when everybody was indict to shopping on line, then people will start to lose the job.
  • Hailey Kolb on 18 Feb 11
     
    This is similar to the feed because people can shop with out going to a store and now that the internet is on many phones it is possible to shop online pretty much whenever you want
Billy Mahoney

Europe Insight - BusinessWeek - 0 views

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  • Another key finding: 40 percent of respondents say that "immediate access" to chosen content is very important to them, suggesting a shift from owning videos to accessing programming on demand. Most importantly, Ericsson says that service providers must devise ways to align consumer spending and usage. Thanks to the "everything should be free" Internet mindset and a growing shift to TV consumption on PCs, traditional service providers risk seeing the value of their offerings diminished. Yet, "if done right," Ericsson argues, "consumers will reallocate their TV spending to new alternatives."
    • Billy Mahoney
      Billy Mahoney on 09 Feb 11
       
      This article relates to the Feed because having instant access to online programming on the computer is like having the access that Titus has in the Feed. People rely on having instant access to things now on the computer that they are basically becoming attached to that kind of technology. For instance the feed is basically a computer thats activated inside everyone's brain, and everyone relies on it as well.
Nathan Nast

How does good technology go bad? | Hoover Institution - 0 views

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Hospital Health Danger Technology

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  • To put it mildly, our health care system demonstrates large-scale confusion about whom to treat and how intensively to treat them.
    • Nathan Nast
      Nathan Nast on 09 Feb 11
       
      Our health care is now being put up on the internet. Everyones medical history can be viewed online. This can be an invasion of privacy. Having hospitals depend on something that could shit down at any moment, is non reliable.
  • Cure of neurological disorders such as Alzheimer’s disease and ALS Growth of new bone and joint tissue to reverse arthritic damage Regeneration of pancreatic functions to reverse diabetes Repair of diseased portions of the cardiovascular system
    • Nathan Nast
      Nathan Nast on 09 Feb 11
       
      All of these new diagnoses/cures, are incredible. This is one way of futuristic medicine being very helpful. The words that are used are"Cure...growth....regeneration...and repair. All of which is helping our body. Although their are bad parts to this technology, you can't pass the fact that its saving lives.
  • Broadcast and print media now overwhelm us with direct-to-consumer ads, most notably for drugs that affect people’s lifestyles, including those treating hair loss, heartburn, and the ubiquitous erectile dysfunction but also for drugs that can have important consequences for survival, including various cholesterol-reducing drugs (statins and their kin) and hypertension medications
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  • Nathan Nast on 09 Feb 11
     
    The danger of using to much technology when it comes to health. Should we keep "feed"ing money into these hospitals? What comes next?
Nathan Nast

To much, To fast - 0 views

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  • A fear of many Web analysts and observers is that today's teenagers, who have never known a world without the Web, will become fixated on instant communication for all their socializing
    • Nathan Nast
      Nathan Nast on 09 Feb 11
       
      This comment makes me wonder what would happen if the internet was shut down for a day. Would the new generation be able to function? It's scary to think about how much we depend on technology.
  • Despite the ongoing concerns of identity theft, viruses, spam, and fraud, most people successfully use the Web to meet their wants and needs.
    • Nathan Nast
      Nathan Nast on 09 Feb 11
       
      "Wants and needs", This is the problem. The society today want's more than they need. For example companies are advertisement more than they need to. They also do to for the idea of competition. People are pushing other people to use more technology.
  • Nathan Nast on 09 Feb 11
     
    This article is talking about the new generation.
stephen richards

This is Your Brain on Technology - The Effect of Technology on Social Interaction - 1 views

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  • How did we ever manage without personal computers, the Internet, cell phones, iPods and 24 hour cable news?
    • stephen richards
      stephen richards on 04 Feb 11
       
      To some people, like Titus, they cannot understand how a world before technology could have functioned, and why some one now would choose to use an outdated and slower technology. in the story Titus is confused when Violet takes out a pen and paper and begins to write, "[he] looked at her funny. 'You write?' [He] said. 'With a pen?'" His confusion as to why she would choose to use a slower more difficult way of technology is not dissimilar to how teenagers today look when someone uses an outdated technology, which M.T. Anderson uses to suggest that we are not very far off from this world.
  • stephen richards on 28 Jan 11
     
    An increased use of technology is causing people to become less capable of carrying on a social interaction with another person.
Christina Chan

In Scholastic Study, Children Like Digital Reading - NYTimes.com - 1 views

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reading digital appeal parents wary concerns surveys devices read e-books

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  • Many children want to read books on digital devices and would read for fun more frequently if they could obtain e-books. But even if they had that access, two-thirds of them would not want to give up their traditional print books.
    • Jeffrey Baudisch
      Jeffrey Baudisch on 14 Feb 11
       
      With the use of E books there would be no need for paper books anymore. We would also save a lot of paper using things like E books.
  • Parents and educators have long worried that digital diversions like video games and cellphones cut into time that children spend reading. However, they see the potential for using technology to their advantage, introducing books to digitally savvy children through e-readers, computers and mobile devices.
    • gabriel reid
      gabriel reid on 01 Feb 11
       
      even though technology that kids have are mostly used for gaming and socializing the fact that ebooks are now capible of being acsesed on cell phones can change how and when we are able to read and that fact that we would whant to read
  • But many parents surveyed also expressed deep concerns about the distractions of video games, cellphones and television in their children’s lives. They also wondered if the modern multi-tasking adolescent had the patience to become engrossed in a long novel. “My daughter can’t stop texting long enough to concentrate on a book,” said one parent surveyed, the mother of a 15-year-old in Texas. Another survey participant, the mother of a 7-year-old Michigan boy, said, “I am afraid my son’s attention span will only include fast-moving ideas, and book reading will become boring to him.”
    • gabriel reid
      gabriel reid on 01 Feb 11
       
      this can become a big problem the things we think are great for us to have can also be destroying us and we might not even know it
    • Jeffrey Baudisch
      Jeffrey Baudisch on 14 Feb 11
       
      would kids be more engaged if the book was on a scene like their video games? Kids may be finding it harder to focus because of all the instant gratification they always have with things like tv and the internet.
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    • Christina Chan
      Christina Chan on 05 Feb 11
       
      I agree with Gabe. You may think electronic reading can be good for you...but if you think about the long term effects...might make you rethink your decision. People only convert to technology is it's more efficient & convenient but very soon people become hooked on it which isn't good because people will find it an excuse to use their Kindles as like video games. Also, this stays true to the quote, "Too much of something isn't good."
  • I agree with Gabe. You may think electronic reading can be good for you...but if you think about the long term effects...might make you rethink your decision. People only convert to technology is it's more efficient & convenient but very soon people become hooked on it which isn't good because people will find it an excuse to use their Kindles as like video games. Also, this stays true to the quote, "Too much of something isn't good."
  • gabriel reid on 01 Feb 11
     
    in this article it talks about the gains and the losses that come from being able to have ebooks on most of are technology devises
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  • Christina Chan on 04 Feb 11
     
    I agree with Gabe. You may think electronic reading can be good for you...but if you think about the long term effects...might make you rethink your decision. People only convert to technology is it's more efficient & convenient but very soon people become hooked on it which isn't good because people will find it an excuse to use their Kindles as like video games. Also, this stays true to the quote, "Too much of something isn't good."
  • Christina Chan on 05 Feb 11
     
    Digital reading is starting to replace books. This article argues out the pros and cons of reading on a kindle. Questions that are raised are: 1) Are kindles actually a good alternative to reading printed copies of books? 2) Are kids getting enough daily exercise still? 3) Do you think reading from a printed copy of a book provides more family time together for their children rather than reading from a handheld device? (Because moms can read to their babies & toddlers)
  • Christina Chan on 05 Feb 11
     
    I agree with Gabe. You may think electronic reading can be good for you...but if you think about the long term effects...might make you rethink your decision. People only convert to technology is it's more efficient & convenient but very soon people become hooked on it which isn't good because people will find it an excuse to use their Kindles as like video games. Also, this stays true to the quote, "Too much of something isn't good."
  • Christina Chan on 05 Feb 11
     
    Digital reading is starting to replace books. This article argues out the pros and cons of reading on a kindle. Questions that are raised are: 1) Are kindles actually a good alternative to reading printed copies of books? 2) Are kids getting enough daily exercise still? 3) Do you think reading from a printed copy of a book provides more family time together for their children rather than reading from a handheld device? (Because moms can read to their babies & toddlers)
  • Christina Chan on 05 Feb 11
     
    I can similarly connect to what Gabe said..just like Violet & everyone else gets hooked on their feeds the kids get addicted to their digital devices. It totally defeats the purpose of even reading at all. Education is diminshed. When people become too absorbed by everything around us like iPods/iTouch, cell phones, texting, AIM, Facebook, YouTube, etc..people eventually become too dependent on these services losing touch with family & friends & the REAL WORLD.
  • Christina Chan on 05 Feb 11
     
    I agree with Gabe. You may think electronic reading can be good for you...but if you think about the long term effects...might make you rethink your decision. People only convert to technology is it's more efficient & convenient but very soon people become hooked on it which isn't good because people will find it an excuse to use their Kindles as like video games. Also, this stays true to the quote, "Too much of something isn't good."
Hailey Kolb

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  • If there was any doubt that computers and technology are taking over the lives of Americans, it was dispelled Monday by two studies -- one noting that most Americans spend more time with their computers than with their spouses, the other revealing many drivers are e-mailing and instant messaging while driving.
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      Hailey Kolb on 18 Feb 11
       
      just like the feed technology is taking over the human mind.  In the book they have the feed all of the time because it is in there minds.  Today people are spending more time with technology than doing there every day activities and/or their families
  • "Technology is one of the greatest DWD culprits," the insurance firm said, noting that younger drivers are most likely to drive while multitasking.
    • Hailey Kolb
      Hailey Kolb on 18 Feb 11
       
      just like the feed technology is distracting and you start to feel dependent on it  
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