Robotic Cement-Moles Inc.: new technology

The Blog Project

See, English 110 exists outside of the classroom. We'll be sharpening our analytical minds in this heated arena: blog-dom.

The point of the blog is for you to practice making 1) observations and 2) analyses on the material you come across in your day-to-day virtual lives, and then to share your analytical experiments with your classmates. Take this opportunity to explore the course theme and broaden your understanding of your chosen sources. Social media, YouTube, and online articles are rife with opportunities for interesting analysis. So impress us with your brilliance, hipness, and pop-cultural savoir faire. This is all about practice (and nerd/cool points, of course) so really go for it.

Let's say to post (roughly) once every other week, which makes a minimum of 5 posts total. There's no limit to how much you can post. But I'll remind you: if you start honing your analytical skills here, your grade and your chances for success over the next few years will markedly improve. Try stuff out--this is graded simply on doing it. If you're truly exploring, you'll probably make some analytical trips that you look back on and are slightly embarrassed about--and that's a good thing.

Sunday, October 16, 2011

Conveniency is a Scary Thing!

This link Short Article describes the long and the short of where our life style is heading. Sure it must be pretty cool to have a remote that controls a big portion of your house for the article does say...

Teletouch, a program that...

Runs on a smartphone
Can dim the lights
Turn off an alarm
Or Double as a television remote.

But just think about the problematic issues that may occur in the long run. With the thought of a remote, one may think it's just a small little contraption and the question may be "So what is the problem?". For starters it's quite funny for this article displaying a little girl holding the device and the article starting off with "IT'S a couch potato's dream come true."

Hello! I see major neon signs flashing the word "warning". By commenting on both the article and the photo, a little child around her age shouldn't be thinking about the couch and holding a remote in her hand. At the time of day that's illustrated, she should be outside during soccer practice or in a sandbox playing pat-e-cake with her next door friend outside. Children shouldn't be effected by technological changes such as this and their child hood is at stake, risking health and possibly social problems. It's also a dangerous thought to know what children can now control in the palm of their hands.

Best Buy- Outdated World Commercial

This commercial shows how quickly technology is advancing. We don't have time to get used to something because a new one is already on the market. The guy getting the tv slaps himself in the face which gives the idea that new technology is a "slap in the face" because society can't keep up with technological advances. They run out of words to describe the new items because everything seems to be "new" nowadays. It was smart for Best Buy to come out with this program of buying back old products. This helps people not feel so bad about buying new things because they can still get some money for the old ones. Technology goes along with wealth too in this aspect. The wealthier people are able to keep up with the rapidly advancing technologies where as the people with a tighter budget find it wasteful to keep buying new products.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_W3kP6jaTXk