Week 1: * Question 1 * Question 2 | | | A policy vacuum, according to James Moor, is best described as | | | | | Answers: | A. occurring in new situations where there are no policies for conduct | | B. occurring in new situations where old policies seem inadequate | | C. neither a or b | | D. both a or b | | | | | * Question 3 | | | A good example of an issue in computer ethics is someone coming into your home and stealing your computer. | | | | | Answers: | True | | False | | | | | * Question 4 | The main point of Nicholas Carr's article, "Is Google Making Us Stupid?" is | | | | | Answers: | A. to explain what is so particularly terrifying about a particular scene in the movie 2001: A Space Odyssey. | | B. that our increasing use of computers makes it harder for us to read novels. | | C. that relying on computers negatively affects our intellectual tendencies and capacities | | D. that using technology of any sort affects the way we think.
Fluid intelligence doesn’t look much like the capacity to memorize and recite facts, the skills that people have traditionally associated with brainpower. But building it up may improve the capacity to think deeply that Carr and others fear we’re losing for good. And we shouldn’t let the stresses associated with a transition to a new era blind us to that era’s astonishing potential. We swim in an ocean of data, accessible from nearly anywhere, generated by billions of devices. We’re only beginning to explore what we can do with this knowledge-at-a-touch.
That before we know it our appliances will be smarter than us one day and that’s not how man intended life to be; humans are supposed to be on top. Not being able to use today’s technology rings in Barry’s purpose. Technology has gone wild and he makes it very clear with several examples. His ability to discredit these technologic advances brings credit to his point. One can always refute anything they’d like, but to be effective, one needs to have appropriate facts for back-up and a dominating style that brings it all together.
Neil Postman, the author of Amusing Ourselves to Death, presents bold new ideas about television and modern culture. He analyzes the media, past and present, as well as the mediums of cultures until present to come to one discovery. Public discourse, mainly political discourse, has been tainted because it is presented more in images than in words. Postman uses many different rhetorical devices to convince us it is terrible that pictures have replaced words as the chief mode of communication. Hyperbole is the first device that postman uses.
Nicholas Carr is the author of the article “Is Goggle making us stupid? Google proponents say that it’s not, they say that we don’t have to use our memory as much as before. Thanks to Google we have more time now to daydream or brainstorm. Or that we can see Google as an huge external hard disk for our brain. Carr thinks that this is bullshit.
Postman uses a point-by-point argument to prove that Huxley’s vision is more relevant than Orwell’s. Postman says “What Orwell feared were those would ban books. What Huxley feared was that there would be no reason to ban a book, for there would be no one who wanted to read one” (Lines 12-13). Orwell’s vision of banning books could never happen in today’s society because of the first amendment. Banning of books can only take place in schools because the content could be too mature for youth, but students could still read the books outside of
It is very obvious from the way Hamilton Spoke in Federalist no. 78 that he didn’t take a care for the judicial system because it doesn’t affect what he is most concerned with, which is the wealth of society. In all actuality I think the Federalist Founders would be surprised by the judicial system if they could see it present day 2012. I think the Founders would be very shocked at how the Supreme Court creates the standard procedure for everyone else in the United States. 1788 which was the year that Hamilton wrote Federalist no.
While being criticized generation because of their overspending, advertisers and marketers target their brands to make sure that they are geared towards these people. While many are enjoying their golden years, Baby Boomers’ buying power is unstoppable. This is even truer when it comes to the use of the Internet. The generation was able to witness the transition between a typewriter to a personal computer, snail mails to e-mails, telephone calls to Facetime, and more. According to Jessica Naziri of USA Today (2015), while the current generation is considered to be more advanced when it comes to the use of technologies, the Baby Boomers are not lagging far behind.
In fact, so many people are focused on not failing, that they don’t really aim for success. To this success driven society, failure isn’t just considered not an option, it is deemed a deficiency. “It is our meta-mistake: We are wrong about what it means to be wrong. Far from being a sign of intellectual inferiority, the capacity to err is crucial to human cognition (K. Schulz)”. When we actually take the time to think about all of the great thinkers throughout history, failure isn’t a new or extraordinary thing at all.
Nicholas Carr and Clay Sharkey debate whether or not the internet is actually making us smarter or dumber. “Never has a communications system played so many roles in our lives- or exerted such broad influences over our thoughts, as the internet does today. “that is one of Carr’s viewpoints. Shirkey believes that “every increase in paperback book to you tube, alarms people accustomed to the restrictions of the old system, convincing them that the new media will make young people stupid. This fear dates back to at least the invention of movable type.” I tend to agree more with Sharkey because there are a lot of learning toold we can gain from the web.