Considering the worst-case scenario for PRISM, assume that all internet firms products are compromised. Albeit true alternatives exist, the scope of the products offered by the co-operating companies is simply too large. One would need to change operating systems to Linux, stop using Android or Apple devices, abandon Facebook, Google, YouTube, and many other beloved services, and that’s merely scratching the surface. Even still, with the knowledge that the NSA can snoop directly through ISP’s, one would have to go to extremes such as using services such as the The Onion Router (TOR) that will completely hide ones identity. While nice in theory, TOR is not publically accepted and is widely regarded as the “darkweb” due to the sheer amount of illicit content accessible.
He exemplified a case in which the Internet actually drove a man towards insanity. He also explains all the side effects the Internet is having on us such as causing health issues, reducing our attention span, and it being a huge waste of our time. This source is useful because
731-745. Print. "Is Google Making Us Stupid?" By Nicholas Carr informs us on the ways technology is negatively effecting us as a society. By using the internet as a resource, we depend on it by quickly finding answers to all our questions in a matter of minutes which changes how we process information.
Internet usage is on the rise and the main sources for obtaining information in the 21st century. Like with everything it has its advantages and disadvantages. One would say the advantages out way the disadvantages, making research more accessible at any time. Social media advantages and disadvantages were discussed and they have altered the way most individual post their business. It is no longer private and once it’s posted it can be used against someone.
And accuracy further reduces speed. With up to 7.8% of tested sites being wrongly blocked you begin to wonder if Conroy is trolling. And of course with such dodgy plans for censorship, there is a strong opposition. Also opposing the filter is internet superpower Google. They comment that "moving to a mandatory ISP filtering regime with a scope that goes well beyond such material (child abuse and terrorism) is heavy handed and can raise genuine questions about restrictions on access to information."
We are becoming more and more radical in our subjectivism. We are “amusing our selves to death” by filtering out whatever we find to be irrelevant indirectly. The internet is now our personal bubble, the internet and web 2.0s are allowing us to form a bubble where the internet opens a portal where we see what we want to see and not what bothers us. We are becoming increasing apathetic to things that make us uncomfortable and the internet shelters us from ideas/events that challenge our way of thinking. Therefore we are losing our ability to determine what right and wrong looks like.
The Burning Truth Fire! It is hard to believe firemen start fires rather than putting them out. Yet that is what happens in Ray Bradbury’s novel, Fahrenheit 451. Dehumanization takes place as the advancements in technology make people less emotional and less capable of independent thought. This is exactly what the totalitarian government, in Bradbury’s Novel, wants for their mindless society.
Google is by far the worst example of an information supplier, in that, a search on Google can inundate the reader with an outlandish list of results. The majority of these results are often not what most educators would consider scholarly work, but instead opinion and conjecture. Wikipedia on the other hand, advertises itself as an encyclopedia type service. While their information is rather extensive and referenced for the reader, its basic flaw is that it is collaborative software. It allows its contributors to freely edit the content that is broadcast through the internet.
Kirsten Laman ENGL 1301-61507 Professor Jackson 30 October 2014 Cognitive Effects of the Internet The book The Shallows by Nicholas Carr states that the introduction of the internet into society has had a profound effect on our culture. In other words, the internet has affected the way people think, read, and remember. The rapid access to tons of information has also affected people’s behavior making them less patient and less productive. According to Carr, “The Net commands our attention with far greater insistency than our television, or radio or morning newspaper ever did” (117). In today’s world, the internet has become essential to work, school and entertainment.
We love zombies because it is a way to express and discuss the things we are uncomfortable with, particularly government, politics, the dreadful economy and the financial institutions that literally get away with murder, and the media as means to our lack of self-identity. And why are we uncomfortable with these topics: because we once had control over our identities, and ourselves, but we have given up and lost our power. These topics make us uncomfortable because we have allowed these things to happen through our very own inaction. That inaction, may of course be a result of misunderstandings, misinformation, misguidance, among other reasons, but at the heart of it: we are the ones who allowed the government, financial institutions and media to suck all of what makes us human out of us. For Gross, however, he suggests zombies are the government or financial institutions, but I portray zombies as us - society - and only a certain few remain who have not yet