Alexa offers danger and benefits to American people. In order to work Alexa has to be listening all the time, so she can be quite dangers. As Amazon Echo said “To work Echo is always listening.” This quote shows how Alexa is a negative because she is always on and listening so when she hears her name she can respond. Alexa, however is not all cons. She has some pros but it is hard to overlook the fact that she is never off. This is a reason Alexa might be a dangerous household item.
When trying to envision the world of today without computers, I imagine that our lifestyles would be extremely different. "As exciting as technological developments may be…it is important to remember that people who lack the skills or the machines to tap into this information are in the same position as those a century ago who could not read or had no access to books" (240). "These new technologies have undoubtedly altered our sense of what it means to be literate" (239). Years ago, being educated simply meant that you could read and write. Today one must go through years of formal schooling to be considered scholarly. This is because, "Our sources of information have become much more diverse than they were even a generation ago," (239).
I do not deny Alexa is convenient in some ways when I consider all the features she has, on the other hand she could make people develop a sort of Laziness and Dependence. Because of Alexa can generate a lot of information, this will discourage people to make physical and intellectual efforts. For examples, no
Cyberspace, like battlegrounds has become a place for conflict: disruption of service necessary for the proper performance of daily life, espionage of various critical infrastructures such as the economic, scientific and commercial assets of companies, theft of information related to our sovereignty and even, in certain circumstances, loss of human lives are nowadays the potential or actual consequences of the overlap between the digital world and human activity.
Technology has many benefits for us which include contacting families and friends far away from us. Regardless of the great benefits of technology, it also has some negative effects on us. It prevents human face to face interaction. Similarly to the Alexa product, it has some negative effects on humans that makes the product worthless to have. Alexa is programmed to perform some duties for us humans. Another negative aspect of this product is that it makes people lazy. Alexa responds to all our commands: for example, "asking Alexa to play specific music on your phone for you" or commanding Alexa to turn on the light in your room. Without the product, we humans do everything on our own; we personally go on our phone to select the music we want to listen to, and we turn on our light ourselves. All this helps us to keep active. We can technically say that walking from the bed to turn off the lights keeps us active and gives us a little exercise for the day. Now with this product performing all the tasks for us, we become less active and become lazy. However, Alexa could be helpful to individuals who are physically unable to do certain tasks on their own. Most people now rely on the device to perform most of our daily routines for us. Now if the product should get damaged, we will not hesitate to get another one because of how we have become so used to the things the device can do for us. Without it we will feel so helpless which I consider a negative
The current generation is defined as one going through a technological revolution where gadgets have become an indispensable part of a person’s daily routine. People use technology as an aid to accomplish their tasks and after the introduction of machines in the homes following the Industrial revolution they have become an integral part of a person’s life. Nowadays the trend is for social media devices that help people connect with others around the world redefining the concept of a Global Village. However, it is being seen that these devices are slowly encroaching upon the basic aspects of human behaviorism which is having a detrimental affect on interpersonal relationships.
I personally believe that it depends on the person using the smart technology and how they are using it to their advantage. Without smart technology, we wouldn’t have many things that we have today. For example, smart technology can play a big role in architecture, architects could be trying to research which is the best material to build with and check if there are any good deals as
In today’s world communication includes a vast array of media sources: audio, video, rich media presentations, interactive websites, DVDs, simulations and virtual environments. Digital communication is one form of communication that I am reviewing and it is defined as electronic transmission of information that has been encoded digitally for storage and processing by computers according to the Free Dictionary by Farlex. In schools the age of effective communication is becoming more widespread. The use of transmitting information is becoming prevalent in schools and how to create messages utilizing the right medium to communicate in a way to help students to achieve in school and in the community, and beyond
Developed during the last decades of the 20th century, the Internet has now become a part of our everyday lives. Having grown up with the Internet, I have seen how it gradually became an essential tool of our modern society and having read an article about the changes brought by the Internet recently, it made me thinking about its real impact which is often overlooked because of how gradual the changes were. It also reminded me of my lessons of philosophy about technology in high school.
design. For this very reason, the uses of computers are now too many to ever
The Internet is possibly one of the most innovative and useful inventions of our time. The Internet can be defined as a worldwide system of connected computer networks that are linked to countless amounts of devices through out the world. Todays Internet allows us to complete just about any task you can throw at it, anything from shopping, paying taxes, keeping in touch with friends, and even starting your vehicle. The rate at which the Internet today is progressing is truly remarkable; there are constantly so many different and new systems as well as functions being released. Although many say that communication technology will always continue to get faster and cheaper, the Internet costs have stayed fairly stable. The speed of the Internet continues to increase at a rate at which people would have never considered to be possible.
Smart devices fail to let people mature and become responsible adults tolerant of compromise and complexity. The smart device makes people do not have to think about thing such as work, and creation. The smart device is invented so perfect that it can think for people on some complex project such as politic, science problem. These smart gadgets are taking off human creature of compromise and thinking. According to the article showed
Today’s technology has developed far from 10 years ago. The most obvious is in Information and Communication Technology (ICT). The invention of smartphones and tablet PC are some of the evidences which show how far this field has developed. Somehow, a smartphone without Internet is like a song without melody.Gray (1999) as cited by Usun (2003) referred the Internet as “a network of hundreds of thousands of computers all over the world, connected in a way that lets other computers access information from them” (pp.2).This aged old network that connected the computers at the time it appeared in the life of human, is now playing bigger role to this modern day life as the users are always increasing everyday. A part of the users are young adults aged 18 to 24 years old, who some of them enter college to further their studies. So the research question is to know to what extent this network could influence the college students’ lives.Such research questions arose as many students claim that internet really helps them in their studies. Plus, the existence of modern gadgets nowadays make it easier for the students to get information just by clicking and scrolling. So, instead of going to the library, these students can get all the information they want instantly. On the other hand, with the Internet, it comes together what we called as social network. Nowadays, we heard a lot on social network addiction’s issues. One of them is that people stop communicating face-to-face with the presence of social networks. So, this research is conducted to see how far these claims are real.
In order to adequately carry out a thorough investigation of the gang involved, proper surveillance must be used in order to gather sufficient evidence to ensure conviction. In order to secure convictions and investigate and prevent the spread of the suspected consignments the gang’s movements and communications must be monitored by means of surveillance.
People use and rely on the Internet is so many ways today; it is difficult to imagine what life was like when it did not exist. The emergence of the Internet has impacted the world in many ways including eliminating a student’s need to visit a library, possibly costing people a job when searching for employment, providing a lack or privacy, creating a new method of communication, presenting new ways to commit a crime, and even an easier way to spend more money on items many people do not really need. Our world has changed drastically since the creation of the Internet, and over time as technology advances, it is going to be amazing to see what else society will be able to do.
The internet, a vast interconnected network of data streaming across the world, through a web system of wired connections that spans to the length that wide as the globe. The precursors of the internet date back to research by the government of the United States, done back as early as the 1960s. The actual internet origins occurred some time in the mid-1980s as generations of exponential growth for computers of personal, mobile, and institutional reach the networking internet. Since the 1980s, the internet was mainly used solely for academic purposes, but commercialization of the internet in the 1990s led to the popularization and incorporation into the public use of the internet in daily life. As of mid-2012, 1/3 of the population of the world currently uses the internet, nearly 100 times more than the amount of people that used it in 1995.