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"Technology is an improved route to an unimproved target. Technology is associated with innovation"

facebook takes your data. so does google, to be "free"

The danger of using to much technology when it comes to health. Should we keep "feed"ing money into these hospitals? What comes next?

How the internet is taking over what people used to be able to do.

This article is talking about the new generation.

X-rays are very useful to doctors but they pose serious health risks. This texts raises the question is it really worth using X-rays if they pose such a risk to our health?

The cell phone has many great uses but these uses can also be its flaws. There is a danger of loosing focus while driving or even just racking up a oversized bill at the end of the month.

I think this article is very true...whatever you see on television influences what you do.. kids & teen encounter advertisements, TV, magazines, & other graphic images daily in their lives & if you get the wrong message it might lead you to believe in the worst. Jersey Shore may want you to think Snooki is badass but she is literally trying to be a bad role model for young girls...who for example might watch the Hannah Montanna show which is geared for 14 & younger aged girls. Kids should watch show that they understand & are geared toward their age group.

Jersey Shore reminds me of the TV show Gossip Girl...basically it's about an elite group of friends from the Upper East Side of Manhattan, New York. They're privileged & they have access to the hottest clubs, suites, fashion, schools, restaurants, etc. The show hints & suggests sex, drugs, & alcohol related heavy topics. The show covers these in adult shows like Sex & the City...and some adults even think it's not appropriate for teens to watch even though they claim it's their most favorite TV show...and of course they go ahead and watch it.

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?

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."

An increased use of technology is causing people to become less capable of carrying on a social interaction with another person.

Microwaves take a huge part in our society today. The radioactivity is very harmful to our lives by creating direct exposer of humans. The increase of radioactivity can cause a "binding effect" between the micro-waved food causing a marked increase in the amount of alpha and beta particle saturation in the food. This also effects our digestive system by the unstable catabolism of micro-waved food alters their elemental food substances, causing disorders in the digestive system. Also electrical impulses in the junction potentials of the cerebrum degenerate and break down.

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.

This article is about if parents over protect their kids and what happens when they do and how do the kids turn up in the end. Questions that are being raised are why do parents do this to their kids, is this a good thing, are we putting to much pressure on our kids too? Just like in Feed is Titus parents overprocting him from the outside world, by buying him new a new car and fighting his battles for him.

This is an article about the statistics of cell phone use among teens. I wonder how much all of this costs?

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?

This article states that the sales in amazon's ( which is one of the biggest online retailers) 'Kindle' have oversold the sales of paperback books. Although it's not necessarily alarming, it is something to think about, as actual copies of books are being replaced by a single piece of technology. As it's assumed in M.T. Andersons book 'Feed', the thought of reading books in an actual hard copy seems to be looked at as embarrassing as writing is now look at to be embarrassing in the scene where Violet and Titus are talking. Questions are raised about this particular subject; although there is always a positive to certain things, there is undoubtedly a negative; what is that certain negative? Is it, if there is some certain situation where technology is somewhat not excess able (aka, world war 3, some variation of the Bubonic Plague, or something where technology and humanity are separated as it couldn't be maintained) and 500 years later, most of the recent copies of book or even 1000 year old books are on electronic copies only, and for those generations of people not being able to read from the? Would'nt reading from the screen become tiring, and enables a more subtle way to skip some of the reading? Some things really just seem to be left alone as is; maybe this is one? Cushing Academy, transformed their whole library to an E-Book library, what is this saying about educated the youth, and what precedent does this set for the future? As changing things to suit our technological needs seems great. it has a very subtle uneasy feeling to it.