I have never thought too much about the different personalities I present online verse in person. However, after today’s discussion, I’ve realized more and more how little these two entities match. I would never post on social media about my political or religious beliefs, nor about my love for reading or my multivariable calculus class. […]
When I think of war, I think of people far, far away from me fighting with guns, planes, bombs, and drones that I write cards to on Veteran’s Day or around Christmas time saying “Thank you for your service.” Needless to say, before today’s discussion, I would not have thought to consider cyber-attacks as acts […]
Oh, government. It seems to be the only thing anyone can talk about these days. However, most people claim they just cannot wait for this election to be over since it has been such a mess and controversy. That being said, I was refreshed during our discussion today to hear about the lack of government […]
Over the weekend I stumbled upon on article (on buzzfeed naturally) about an artificial intelligence system that has accurately predicted the last three presidential elections that is predicting Donald Trump will win the election on November 8th. If you’ve read my previous blog posts, you would be able to guess how much this shocked and […]
I think the discussion we had today was aptly timed due to the final countdown we are in to the General Election on November 8th, the scariest election in the history of the United States (in my personal opinion, of course). While a future with electronic voting is not how I foresee the Internet affecting […]
Intelligence, as described by Google, is the ability to apply knowledge and skills. Is that all intelligence is? Or is intelligence a combination of seven distinct intelligences (visual-spatial, bodily-kinesthetic, musical, interpersonal, intrapersonal, linguistic, and logical-mathematical), as Howard Gardner claims? Or should we define intelligence with the definition of artificial intelligence, which is the intelligence exhibited […]
Blockbuster, taxis, classified ads, cds: all these things, and many others, seem to be very different, yet, they share one glaring characteristic. Their success has significantly declined due to the advent of the Internet and its, perhaps excessive, use in today’s society. Blockbuster has been replaced by Netflix. In fact, one can even argue that […]
Who knew that if you entered in to a browser “http://52.87.32.185” you would arrive at the Harvard emergency phone numbers site? Well, maybe Professor Waldo and Dean Smith already knew that, but I definitely did not. I’ve never thought about the meaning behind the words and characters I enter into my address bar in order […]
As I did the reading for this week’s seminar, I remember thinking over and over again, “wow, this was the first time this controversy that is so prevalent today occurred.” Basically, the very first users of the Internet ran into the same controversies that exist today very quickly. From discovering the importance of immediate communication […]
Well, first off I have to express my dismay at the lack of female contributions to the advent of the Internet. However, as I kept reminding myself throughout the seminar, the times we are reading about are not the times we live in today. This notion was made most clear to me when Professor Waldo […]