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com tech reaction

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  COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGIES REACTION      The presentation I found most interesting was the carrier pigeon presentation. I found it interesting how long the use of carrier Pigeon has spanned over time. The use of the homing pigeon has spanned since the 1800s. There were in fact several pigeons that were given medals by militaries around the world. The most recent use of a homing pigeon I could find was a story in 2015 where Indian police detained a pigeon who was accused of spying for Pakistan.      I realized that communication technology within the past 20 years has changed so fast compared to what it had over the last 200. Showing just how fast technologies in communication have advanced. I recently watched the film Blackberry, which shows how fast the pace of innovation was during these last twenty years or so.          The other  presentation I found interesting was the telegram presentation where the electrical pulse was sent through wires to another telegram receiver that woul
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eoto 2 post

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   Diffusion of Innovations Diffusion of Innovation Theory - sph.bu.edu - Boston UniversityBoston Universityhttps://sphweb.bumc.bu.edu › behavioralchangetheories4              I found this to be an interesting theory.  Why do some people adopt new ideas and technology and some do not.  Is the new really better than the old.  Is the new faster and easier, better? Or are people just used to the old and set in their ways.  I myself have seen examples of this in my own life.  I went to a Junior Boarding School, Cardigan Mountain School for eight through ninth grade.  While at school we were unable to access any social media.  When we came to school we had to turn in our phones, and any other devices that had wifi in to the office.  We were all given an Apple lap top computer to use. The laptops had a program on it where the school could see what we were doing, they limited our use of free internet to two hours a day, and we were unable to access social media websites.  At the time non of u
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war post #6

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                     My  opinion of why you have to seek out obscure anti war websites is that the mainstream media is biased.  The bias of the main stream media was clearly apparent during the Presidential Election of 2020.  Anyone could see from reading, or watching just a blip of the news which way the bias leaned towards.  Fox News clearly favored Trump, while pretty much every other news source ABD, CBS, and NBC favored Biden.  When it comes to war I am not sure where the truth actually lies.  From reading the websites suggested in the Syllabus on Anti War, there seem to be some credible authors on the website. on The American Conservative Website, author Doug Bandow was a former special assistant to President Ronald Reagan.  Most people look at Ronald Reagan as a good President.  My grandfather looks back on "The Reagan Years" as he says they were very good to him as he was employed as a draftsman at Grumann Aerospace Corporation.  I also feel like the government as wel
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AI

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   The AI job Artificial Intelligence                Artificial Intelligence can be defined as the ability of a computer program to learn and think.  Everything can be construed as AI if the computer or program does something that normally would really on the intelligence of an actual human being. There are advantages to AI such as the reduction of human error.  Also the risk involved of a machine doing something that a human would normally do  like defuse a bomb.  Defusing a bomb via  AI could potentially save someone's life. Computers are also available 24 hours 7 days a week where as humans need to sleep.  Computers are also able to perform repetitive jobs without injury.  As humans we can be injured from constant repetitive motions. A computer also can provide Digital Assistance, such as routing a call to the correct phone number, this can improve a Company's customer service satisfaction.  These are some of the positives, there are also negatives.  These AI devices can com
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privacy 7

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   Privacy                    Privacy and data on the internet is another complex situation. On a daily basis we provide our information willing to the internet and hope that it will not be used against u s.  We post pictures on  Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, we use our credit cards to make purchases.  These can all be positive.  These tools allow us to stay connected to friends and family across the world.  It provides a connection to them that we didn't have before.  It can also be used against us.  We hear on the news how our data has been breached by companies who were hacked.  This is a huge inconvenience  for the consumer, sometimes we have to close accounts or get new credit cards.  There are people who do this as a job, they prey on people.  My cousin just had her privacy violated by a hacker.  She was approached by a company on Instagram to become an influencer, the company sent her a check.  When she received the check she cashed it.  Later that day she went to take out m
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final post

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   My Relationship With Technology https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13045331/Tesla-owner-pulled-driving-wearing-Apple-Vision-Pro.html AT&T Network UpdateAT&T Newsroomhttps://about.att.com › pages › network-update 'Where society fails': Inside the Vancouver Stanley Cup RiotSportsnet.cahttps://www.sportsnet.ca › nhl › long-form › society-fail... Teen Suicides Force Meta, Snap to Tackle Rising Sextortion ...Bloomberghttps://www.bloomberg.com › features › 2024-sextortion...       I feel in 2024 many people couldn't exist without their screens. This is seen every day, a great example is the idiot driving a Tesla with the Apple goggles on. This shows just how attached our civilization is to their screens. Another amazing example was actually during our class earlier this semester when AT&T  servers went down and no one had cell service for about 6 or 7 hours. The amount of sheer panic I witnessed coming from some students was sad.       I think at this point m
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gate keeping agenda setting

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 Gate Keeping/agenda setting           The theory of agenda setting is primarily based on the way the news reports the information it is given based on what's best for the news station. This means the news that is given is being swayed or filtered based on what the news wants the public to think about a story. For example, if a news station is frequently only reporting bad or intentionally skewed information about a candidate who has opposing views than the owners of the news corporations. This is the definition of agenda setting.     The theory of gatekeeping is the act of filtering the news to only report the news that they believe to be important an example of this would be someone with investments in Biden not running any news about Hunter Biden's laptop. They are trying to keep information from the publics eye so it isn't asked about. This is an example of gatekeeping the public from the news.
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