Purpose At the end of my speech, the audience will be able to understand the functions of Google Glass.
Introduction The majority of us spend most of our days on our phones or other electronic devices. Social media has become such a big part of our lives, that we want to access it as much as possible. It distracts us and takes all our attention away from life, making it hard to concentrate on anything else. Google has solved our problems by creating a technology that allows us to access the internet and still carry on with our everyday lives and that is Google Glass, a highly practical technology designed by the Google team that allows to access the internet through wearable glasses. According to an article written by CNET dated May 1, 2013, “Google Glass is Google on your face.” Google Glass are wearable glasses that have a built in camera attached to the frame, everything that is seen in front of you comes from the display which uses LED illumination. Google Glass offers several function that I will discuss throughout my speech, as well as the issues that people are facing with it.
Central Idea Google Glass provides users with several services.
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Conclusion
Technology is advancing everyday and this is new step into our future. This incredible high tech device has the whole world talking. Being able to take pictures, videos, sharing, searching on Google, translating, getting directions, showing the weather, giving you the time, giving you needed information, having live chats, sending text messages, answering or making calls and listening to music, all through voice command or by simply swiping the touch pad. Having it all displayed in front of you and giving you’re the capability of doing something else at the same time is amazing and it is showing us how fast the world is advancing. Now you know everything you need to about Google Glass, its advantages and disadvantages and it is up to you decide if you want to purchase this device or not and possibly change your life.
In Nicholas Carr 's article, “Is Google Making Us Stupid?” he discusses the effect that technology has on our brains as the world becomes more advanced. He gives examples of how technology has helped us and hurts us. Nicholas Carr tells about his own experiences with technology and others as well. In this paper, I will talk about the first part of Carr’s article, I will then agree with Nicholas Carr, give examples from his article, talk on his structure, sources, counterarguments or solutions, and end with why I agree with what he has said.
It is a well-known fact that the Internet has become a central part of society, and it has completely changed every aspect of life for the human race, whether it is for better or worse. Nicholas Carr explains his thoughts on how the Internet has changed how people think in his article, “Is Google Making Us Stupid?” He believes that the human race is losing its ability to think deeply and is creating a distraction culture, and that companies like Google are working to increase this way of thinking. However, the issue of how the human brain is changing with the Internet is very complex, and the answer to this question goes beyond a simple yes or no.
Wearable Augmented Reality (WAR) devices are defined as networked, multimedia computers that can be worn as glasses. They utilize “heads-up displays, sensors and earphones to provide an improved interface for these features by overlaying graphics, text, and sound on the physical world” [8]. WAR is a rapidly growing technology that has garnered attention from multinational corporations [2] to tinkerers who build Kickstarter projects [3] in their basement. In fact, the 2013 Emerging Technologies Hype Cycle released by Gartner in August 2013 mentions “Augmenting Humans with Technology” as one of six highlighted technologies [1]. Gartner speculates that narrowing the gap between humans and devices will result in productivity gains due to the workforce having quicker access to information.
4deterioration of memory. Even Socrates came to the conclusion that as we would “cease to exercise their memory and become forgetful.” (Carr 2008, p.326) Even though Socrates was not directing this thought towards computers and Google specifically, little did he know that this would occur to our own generations. Nowadays everyone believes “...that our minds should operate as high-speed data-processing machines...” (Carr 2008, p.325) A study that occurred at George Mason University stated that the adult mind can be seen as plastic. It is stated that “Nerve cells routinely break old connections and form new ones.” (Carr 2008, p.319) The brain is able to reprogram itself in different situations. Since our society is constantly plugged in and online, this proves that our brain is always processing and then storing the things we see and read on our screens. But, as we continue to take in new information it becomes more difficult to retrieve the old information. Carr centers his article around Google and the advancements they have created within the company. Cade Metz argues in article on the Google Search Engine that, “In some cases, they can learn a task so well that they outperform humans.” (2016) They have developed this search engine to do most or basically all the work for us when we go and look to our world wide web for assistance. Eric Schmidt states that Google was created “to solve problems that have never been solved before.” (Carr
With the rising of technology in the modern age, lots of new inventions have been introduced and the appearance of those inventions has helped our life significantly. But the growth of technology has also raised a vast amount of concerns, and most of those concerns are due to the negative effects of technology to our minds – the users who benefit from it. Nicholas Carr in “Is Google Making Us Stupid?” has strengthened those concerns by coming up with the idea that the advance in technology is influencing our thoughts and behaviors to be functioning differently than the way they used to be.
Google Zoo, Google Alphabet’s in-house research subsidiary which provides value for brands by helping them seek ways to use Google products and platforms, released a study about how audiences experience VR. The study includes how journalists and marketing creatives can relay messages to consumers through VR in the future, and how consumers will react to and process this new form of communication.
Madden, S. (2013, June 15). With wearable tech like Google Glass, human behavior is now a design problem. Retrieved from Gigaom: http://gigaom.com/2013/06/15/with-wearable-tech-like-google-glass-human-behavior-is-now-a-design-problem/
Batson, Trent (March 13, 2009). Campus Technology. Response to Nicholas Carr’s ‘Is Google Making Us Stupid?’ http://campustechnology.com/Articles/2009/03/18/Response-to-Nicholas-Carr-Question-Is-Google-Making-Us-Stupid.aspx?Page=1
There is a company known as Corning, you may or may not have heard of them but be assured they are prevalent in many fields as manufacturers of appliances with a wide ranges of uses. They have recently released information in the form of videos, articles, and Public Service Announcements in regards to a new product known as Smart-glass. They have mentioned in all their releases how the new technology will become ubiquitous in the near future. Also in their videos they show intended possible uses for the technology from everyday life to the work environment. With such a promising technology there begs the question, what moved Corning inc. to invest in smart glass technology? I propose that what moved Corning inc. to invest in smart glass technology was a perceived opportunity to branch out even more and allow for extensive innovation and spontaneity. I will be addressing my reasoning behind my idea for Corning's thinking behind the new technology, Smart-glass.
Google is great. Isn’t it? You forget the name of that actress in that new movie you just saw and BAM! All you have to do is Google it. You don’t even have to think hard about it, because the answer is so close within your reach, just pull out your smart phone or laptop and give it a few seconds to load and there it is. What would have taken you 30 minutes, maybe even an hour to remember was easily found on the Internet with just the touch of a button. I saw Google differently before I read Nicholas Carr’s article “Is Google Making us Stupid”. I went from seeing Google as a tool, to seeing it is a weapon. The beginning of Carr’s essay, jumped out at me immediately and made me think. Carr explains “Over the past
“…in the next few years, humanity's going to go through a shift… We're going to start putting an entire layer of digital information on the real world” (Gribetz, 2016). In his recent TED Talk,” Meron Gribetz encourages his audience to consider how such technology could transform the reality that we call the human experience by referencing augmented reality (Gribetz, 2016). Until the summer of 2016, augmented reality did not have a recognizable role in our lives. Then, came Pokémon Go, a game that gave many people their first notable, combined experiences of augmented reality and telepresence on their smartphones.
Technology is something that seems to bring people together, but in reality can bring people farther away when technology not optimized for certain groups. Many groups are left out of new technology, especially the deaf and elderly. These groups deserve technology just as much as people the technology is originally geared towards. Technology is meant to bring people closer together not isolate groups from each other. However, despite the technology not being fully optimized for these groups, it has had some advances in the past years. These include facetime and text messaging for the deaf community and the ability to customize the phone to make it easier for the elderly to read and use.
“Is Google Making Us Stupid?” by Nicholas Carr and “How Computers Change the Way We Think” by Sherry Turkle are two articles that explore how technology influences our daily lives. “Is Google Making Us Stupid?” discusses the effects of the internet in our society, how it is robbing us of our deep thoughts, memories and our ability to read books. Carr also talks about how the internet has become our primary source of getting information. The writer also discusses about how he’s having difficulty focusing on reading. “How Computers Change the Way We Think” is talking about how people don’t use their brains full potential capacity to solve problems. Instead, we depend on technology to do that for us.
The following essay will discuss how the ideas in “Is Google Making Us Stupid?” by Nicholas Carr, is expressed in the futuristic novel Feed, by M.T Anderson.
Google has been known as the primary catalyst in bringing out the innovativeness and creativity in this very dynamic Internet surge. Google opened expansive opportunities to each and every user around the world from its inception in 1998 by Sergey Brin and Larry Page (Ojala, 2003). Moreover, Google has brought anew life on various internet-related products and services. From the past, Google is coined as Internet search engine along with the renowned services such as Google Maps, Google Earth, Google Videos, Google Images, Gmail, Google News, Google Phone, Google Calendar, Google Groups, Google Translate, and Google Books. Subsequently, Google had another quantum leap from the time Google Mail was introduced in 2004 and fossilized its image in becoming as the largest email provider. In 2010, a driverless car phenomenon became a reality from the introduction of Google Car (Poczter & Jankovic, 2014). This project aimed to provide a “profound effect on energy consumption, efficiency, and traffic accidents” using the hybrid technology and innovation (Poczter & Jankovic, 2014, p. 7). The commitment, teamwork, responsiveness and flexibility to technological advancements marked the mental faculty of the renowned developers of Google. The strategic vision emanates from all of its employees where quality and productivity is the primordial movers leading to deliverable outcomes enjoyed by majority of the consumers. Along with this, the mission sheds out creativity and innovation on its products and services set the standards that contributed to the continuous growth of their success. Parnell (201...