All right for this blog we are supposed to compare Sherry Turkle's article to something that we already learned in class. Pretty much what I got out of the article was the fact that in some weird way, some MIT nerds do not believe that we as human beings have free will and that instead our mind is just made up of "little processors" that can only ( Read more... )

Ok so since we get to talk I wanted to try and blurb out a few facts that I came to understand. The first is that apparently  the first internet computer game was a ROLE PLAYING GAME or RPG called adventure. I always just assumed that it was something stupid like Solitare but then I remembered....Oh yea they didn't have a graphical user interface ( Read more... )

I am sorry but I still can not say that the Internet was started all because of one thing like ARPANET or USERNET. It just simply cant be done. The internet that we have today does have its roots in ARPANET but we can not even be too sure about that because we have not covered USERNET yet. I will give ARPANET this....It pointed the United States ( Read more... )

Apparently this time we are supposed to talk about a "Media Thingy" of today and compare it to a "Media Thingy" of the marvelous yesteryear. I find comparing the brotherly love of brothers chatting on Youtube from the NPR report is quite similar to Licklidier's creation of Arpanet. Wait I take that back. I can not say that the two are really ( Read more... )

Since Chris was so broad in giving us the topic of “Thinking Machines,” I decided I wanted to look at that idea from a more interesting note. What can be considered a thinking machine? If a human is a mix of human and machine… does that make the person still human or are they now considered a machine? One show that tries to answer these questions ( Read more... )

    Before Chris’ lecture I did not understand the meaning of the word analog when it came to technological terms. After the class, when it comes to Analog Computing, I think I have I better understanding of what these words could mean. I consider it Thinking Outside Of The Box of Digital Computing. Now think about how we have become so dependent ( Read more... )