However, both characters’ temperament is rather similar in some ways both being somewhat craven without being hardly virile. Both stories have their pros and cons like everything else, yet they both center around the effect technology can have on the real, outside world. I personally felt that Bradbury’s story was more interesting than Skurzynski’s story. I found his concept that the slightest thing in the past might tremendously change the future causing a chain-reaction that, in the book, can be a ghastly one to be an intriguing idea. This story left me interested in Bradbury’s concept and wishing that the story had gone on longer.
Every generation has flaws and ours maybe the lack of motivation due to technology but with this flaw it allows us to excel becoming more intelligent and opening our minds to realms not even thought of. We are not the dumbest generation and one day if not today we’d be looked at as one of the generations that lived through the era of great technology and instead of succumbing to it, excelled. Sources: 1. Mark Bauerlein, The Dumbest Generation 2.Sharon Begley, The Dumbest Generation? Don’t Be Dumb 3.
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.
For the jock, sports… And for the nerd, studying… Popularity is another difference in between the two. Nerds are often quiet and introverted. On the other hand, most jocks like to be the center of attention. But, often jocks tend to be more popular than nerds. That is, until it’s time to take a major test!
With the internet, and the other forms of entertainment it is becoming increasingly difficult to form a clever, humorous ad that is effective. There is so much advertisement in entertainment, and pretty much everything else. Only the funny, clever ideas make it on screen. This ad does a great job in doing just that, it is funny and clever. Yes, there are numerous movie parodies, but if they are relevant enough they can be very funny.
Other countries are dealing with worst software copyright problems. The issue of copyright is not new, and it’s resulted from many factors. In my opinion, copyright violations are caused by the easiness of able to copy software and by lacking of strict enforcement. Some people don’t understand that it’s an ethical issue because by using and copying software without paying is a form of stealing. Many under developed countries are not enforcing the issues of copyright leading to outrageous software piracy.
The amount of data and free press is unprecedented and as someone who has grown up with such technology virtually constantly at my side it not difficult to immerse myself in this digital age and culture of limitless connectivity. For better or for worse, the internet has undoubtedly had an impact on my life. It can be, if you so wish it to be a wholly welcoming world – when you have the ability to contact the billions around the globe. They say that university is much different to high school in that now you are exposed to so many different people from such vastly varying backgrounds that it is hard to form the stereotypical clique and be as discriminatory. The internet is so much more than that.
The Ups and Downs of a Limited Perception Henry David Thoreau once stated “The question is not what you look at, but what you see.” With the limited perception, people tend to be uncertain at what they look at and see. While people like to be right, uncertainty is one of the most important factors of an individual’s growth. The human’s limitation and perception can be a hinder to an individual’s growth due to the lack of human senses. Neil deGrasse Tyson demonstrated how technology expands individuals limitation in his science essay “Coming to Our Senses,” and Pieter Beghal demonstrated the idea of how humans limitation can hinder the growth as a human in the painting “Landscape of the Fall of Icarus.” In contrast, humans limitation and perception
That is to say, being smart is not equal to having and using only one type of intelligence, but having all types of intelligences which include practical, social and emotional intelligences as well as using them effectively. On the other hand, the definition of human intelligence may not be a simple one as it cannot be confined to one’s responses to numerical and verbal tasks in IQ tests. Human intelligence is beyond IQ tests as Phil Yam points out. Human intelligence is the combination of various skills and abilities that would work even in real-life conditions. People’s life success and practical knowledge are also determining factors while measuring their intelligence because they need to possess survival skills when they encounter stressful and challenging situations.
1.2 The Offence Principle Several societies, even liberal ones, except to some amount the United States, have limitations on some harmless system such as open lewdness, solicitation, indecency of some exotic kinds, distribution of materials with offensive ethical and cultural slurs, displays of swastikas, Holocaust denial, and some sorts of pornography [3, p. 13]. However, there is significant doubt whether these can be justified by the harm principle, because certain sorts of unkind psychological con are not in theory harms per se. This led some, Joel Feinberg in particular; to adopt another theoryditions that can, alongside the harm principle, carry all of the work essential for a principle that has to deal with freedom of speech and set the bar a little lower than in the harm principle [3, p. 15]. They found their mission in an additional principle called the offence principle, which authorized the burdens of limitations on speech for its supposed offensiveness, slightly than the harm that is caused [5, p. 6]. Unlike the harm principle, it is not needed for speech to set back our interests, for it to be prohibited under the offence principle.