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In the video “Machines Are Using Us” by Michael Wesch is about how digital text is much simpler to use. The internet is a very good tool to write paragraphs, blog about ideas and just post anything. The web has expanded from simple html of web pages to using xml to make WebPages more accessible to other internet sites. This is important to me because it means when I start to grow older the internet will expand and so will the “machine.” It will be faster, more intelligent and even more efficient than other sources. This is important to the world because in some very short years we computers will be more resourceful, helpful and smarter than a human being. We will not rely on a human source about an vent but we will rely on what the computers have to say.

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 I read the article “Dang! I Just Missed It” By David Warlick is about seeing Mars as big as the moon to the naked eye. This kind of closeness between these two planets is never going to happen again until 2287! David searched on the internet only to find the whole thing was a hoax. It has just been an email sent every year since 2005 but it originated from the 2003 email when the encounter actually happened even though being 55 million miles away from us was only just a bright star. In truth Mars could be seen as big as the moon if you used a 75 power magnification telescope. This proves that not everything you hear on television and the internet is not always true. This has changed a lot since the 1960s because they had no internet and everyone just started to own a television. They would believe everything they heard because they didn’t question anything they just believed what they read. This affects me because if I am doing a homework assignment and I search on the internet for help on a question how do I know the answer is right? I think everything in the world would be so much easier and simpler if people wrote the truth and said what was actually going on in the world giving us the truth and giving us the real facts about current events than making up some fake story to grab attention and get everyone paranoid about a false statement. I hope things will change and people don’t have to question if what they hear and they don’t listen to the misanthropes trying to lie.

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"Footprints In The Digital Age" by Will Richardson is about how posting one thing on the internet good or bad can define our futures. He states that students need to post things on their blogs that will help them in their future to seem smart and very intelligent not dumb and ignorant. If you posted things that got an A+ and you keep getting those grades constantly then people will think you are intelligent and very wise and want you to come to their school or you get that certain job. If you fail and get average grades you will be looked down on by some and you will not get that scholarship or get that job you wanted because they have given it to someone who worked for it. The National School Boards Association took a test in 2007 and more than 80 percent of adolescent tens are using the internet. That means that all these kids are posting things on the internet that everyone can see. This affects me because I am always on the internet. I get on face book at least four times a day and post comments constantly which everyone can see. If I post something inappropriate or disturbing and someone happens to see it could take away a scholarship, job, sports etc. this affects to the world because everyone in the world uses computers and the internet.  More than 90 pecent probably have some type of social connection on the internet that everyone can easily access. People all around the world need to be safer on what they do on the internet.

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I read the story “Technology for the 21st century: part two (is it a literary machine?) that is about how the iPad is more of an entertainment machine then a literary machine. This article is about the author David Warlick stating that an iPad is good to look at and fun to use but is it really made for educational purposes also? Warlick asks the question “What is the iPad really great at — best at” and he says it’s a great machine to watch. I agree, I don’t think the iPad was made for educational purposes I think it was made just as another money making machine from apple. this means when people buy an iPad to use as a educational piece they get ripped off. I agree that the iPad is a lot of fun to use and play with but that’s all it was made for. Sure it can go on the internet and search for the links you want; sure you can download books on to it, but what cant now days? I can do all of that stuff on my CRICKET phone! I think that it was just made for money purposes and for entertainment purposes to play apps and blog on a cooler version of a laptop. I agree definitely with David Warlick saying this machine is fun to play with but it does not have a lot of educational purposes, the device was made for money making purposes.

IS GOOGLE MAKING US STUPID

Is Google making us stupid by Nicholas Carr suggests that we spend to much time on the internet and have lost our common sense about everything and we let computers do our thinking now. He gives an example saying he use to be able to sit down to read a book and make connections for hours but now he sits down and reads a couple of pages and gets bored. Carr says that “For me, as for others, the Net is becoming a universal medium, the conduit for most of the information that flows through my eyes and ears and into my mind.” I totally agree with this quote. I think people are starting to believe everything the internet and television are telling them even if it is a complete lie. People are relying on almost everything in their life on technology instead of just looking through a phonebook to get an address they get on Google and can find it in under a second. Scott Karp and Bruce Friedman both said they use to be everyday readers but now that they use the web so much they can barely open a book. I think this is because the internet creates shortcuts for people and now instead of reading and absorbing the text people try to just skim through absorb the most important information. All in all, I think the internet and Google are making us stupid.