Brooke Gladstone's The Influencing Machine

In his book "The Shallows," Nicholas Carr claims, “With the exception of alphabets and number systems, the Net may well be the single most powerful mind-altering technology that has ever come into general use. At the very least, it’s the most powerful that has come along since the book” (Carr, 118). Carr supports this claim through examining other early inventions of man, such as the book, and using other 's opinions and evidence to prove the Net can alter the mind. The author suggests that because of this new mind-altering technology, we are in a modern renaissance. Carr establishes a cautionary tone for his audience, anyone who does and will use the Net, to raise awareness of how the Internet is refining people 's minds.

In the article“Mind Over Mass Media” by Steven Pinker he covers the controversial topics of the effect that the new forms of media have on our mental capabilities and moral opinions. He refutes that media has not taken a toll on our intelligence, but, in fact, it has increased it, even to the extent of raising our IQs. Although there are likely negative impacts like addiction or distraction, he indicates that these impacts can be controlled, so hence the title “Mind Over Mass Media.” Pinker’s central claim is that new media technologies increase our intelligence and through their use, more discoveries are being made. Through the powers of his persuasion, Pinker draws us in, by appealing to his audience using historical and scientific evidence,

In Steven Pinker’s article, “Mind Over Mass Media”, the author illustrates the intellectual benefits obtained from mass media and argues that the media doesn’t have a negative effect on our brain. His examples are the great American crime decline not because of new technologies, the predictions that the new technologies would be harmful were wrong. Not only just the crime rate decline but also the I.Q. level rose continuously. With any new media that has emerged some people continually believe that our brain power and skills will plummet. The article points that people need to use new technology with self-control. As the author concludes, that “the Internet and information technologies are helping us manage, search and retrieve our collective

Johnson claims television is harder today, but our modern shows are based on beauty, money, and materialistic things. Shows are no longer made to bring families together to watch, they are fabricated reality series with violence, sex, and profanity. Moreover, Johnson argues that television and video games are making us smarter. However, his definition of smart is that it improves our cognitive skills. Cognitive skills do not necessarily make us more intelligent nor are they the same. While watching television or playing video games we memorize and retain celebrity gossip and not useful information. Useful information is not retained because our brain can only hold a few pieces of information at a time. Nicholas Carr, author of The Glass Cage: Automation and Us, which analyzes the personal and social ramifications of this generation's growing dependency on computers, states, in the Smart Technology is Making Us Dumb debate “If you think about it, if you can only hold two to four pieces of information in your conscious mind, then if you're constantly taking in new information, you have to push the existing information out very, very quickly in order to make room” (Smart Technology Is Making Us Dumb). We are constantly overloading our brains because information in the form of television reaches our brain faster, but does

Carr, K. (2010). Does the Internet make you dumber? In N. Dollahite & J. Haun (Eds.), Sourcework: Academic Writing from sources (2nd ed. , pp. 196-198).

Have you ever heard of a self driving car?Most likely you have.Since the self driving cars release in the 2000,the self driving car has been in the center of controversy.Many believe self driving cars could save lives by avoiding wrecks,while others believe that self driving cars may not be as great as they sound.Self driving cars are not a good idea because they need up to date highways,and there will be less safety gear,

The influx of legislation can be linked back to the success of the first initiative relating to autonomous vehicles, and it is likely that autonomous vehicle legislation will continue to be introduced at the state level throughout the country.Google Inc. has approached several major car insurance underwriters to gauge the coverage implications of its driverless car technology available to the commercial market. (Matt & et.al., 2012). Perhaps the biggest obstacle facing self-driving cars is, not surprisingly, the lawyers. The good news is that this technology should dramatically reduce the 30,000-plus annual fatalities on the nation 's highways (Walker 2012).About four years ago, when Google team was trying to develop cars

The rapid advancement in technology is beneficial and detrimental. As a current undergraduate student it is scary to see how technology has eliminated or replaced countless jobs. At the rate we are going many jobs will be replaced by a machine. The articles examines how self-driving vehicles will affect the overall economy. I always believed that self-driving was a thing of the future and this article has changed my perspective because it is now closer than ever. The pros of a self-driving truck is that they will able to drive 24 hours which means goods will be delivered at a quicker rate and stipulate the labor force. Having employees come with a major cost such as salaries, health coverage, etc. In the perspective of a business owner, reducing

The self-driving vehicles will not only save lives, but also transform our lives. Self-driving cars will provide new mobility to millions of elderly and people with disabilities who today have few, if any, options for mobility. They will change how we get around and, as a result, what we do. They will change how we interact with our children and our families. They will change the choices we make on a daily basis-from how we commute to what we do for work.

Have you ever been too tired to put your hands at 10 and 2 and place your foot on the gas? Is it too much trying to apply makeup and drive while running late? Now, you don’t have to ever worry about doing any of these things due to self-driving cars. All you have to do is sit in the driver’s seat and relax. It’s as easy as that. This allows you to then Snapchat and Instagram more while on the go! This will be easy for many people to do, matter of the fact that’s what many people wish they could do every day, just sit around. The car companies have come up with the next big thing. These will be advertised everywhere and they’ll probably have ads for it on your phone, which you can now check while you sit in an automatically moving vehicle. Who needs to Uber everywhere when you have these? I personally can’t wait for the world to become even more unplugged from reality and plugged into the digital world. I also think this concept is going to help decrease the level of obesity, especially when the car companies have made it a whole lot harder to go through a drive through. Just

Imagine a world where you can drive safely and don't have to worry about driving among with drunks, reckless teenagers, and people who need their license taken. This dream is starting to become a reality due to larger companies investing in this idea. I believe that in the next 5 years, self-driving cars will be more ubiquitous. They will make our lives easier than it already is. Passengers will be safer and it makes the commute to where we travel more predictable. With self-driving cars, we will be able to avoid accidents, have more free time, and have more land we can use. With this new type of technology, there are going to come as well. Such as the cost of the new technology, how the technology will work during bad weather, and malfunctions

Threat of New Entrants: The threat of new entrants into the driverless car market is medium. As mentioned in the case, developing the technology for a driverless car requires large investment in R&D, and Google has only been able to move into this field because of the major success of their other businesses has provided them the capital for such a huge undertaking. Additionally, lobbying groups representing large automakers are fighting legislation that allows self driving cars. A powerful interest group like the automotive industry is likely to create barriers of entry into the industry to limit the growth in popularity of this technology.

Jobs are both created within the production and design of self-driving cars and jobs are lost where self-driving cars replace the need for other forms of transport. In the long run, self-driving cars will outweigh the negatives of that they cause on unemployment and the economy. Self-driving cars have already created many high skilled jobs both designing the hardware and the software that the cars are dependent on. With the competition between every big car manufacture and tech giants to develop self-driving cars there are many more jobs being created that need to be filled. Self-driving cars will help reduce congestion on motorways while help people in cities find parking and travel more easily around cities. Although it can be argued that jobs will be lost such as taxi drivers, truck drivers or bus drivers, autonomous cars are at least 3 years away from release if not longer, this gives for the economy to adapt and change to reduce the impact but to also develop the increasing range of benefits that self-driving cars

Google is going to make self-driving cars the future, and one of the biggest reasons is because they have already started. A couple of days ago, the company announced that they were working on a self-driving car program, and that it was simulating three million miles of driving every day. Not only this but Google also stated that ever since 2009, there 55 self-driving cars have driven

In early 2012, Sebastian Thrun invented the first Google Self-Driving Car. Some people believe self- driving cars are safer than typical cars because of reaction times and that can decrease the number of car accidents. Others think hackers could hack the cars which would be very dangerous. Self-driving cars have more benefits like less pollution, fewer traffic accidents and deaths, and reduce the amount of distracted drivers.