Connected
As an assignment for class, we were asked to comment on a few of our…
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DS 106 pt. 2
I did a second DS 106 assignment by recreating a trip I took a few years…
DS106 Pt.2
Hiiiiii friends! Here’s my DS106 assignment! I created a pinterest board of my dream vacation, which isn’t as accurate as I’d hoped because in all honesty my goal is to travel the whole world.. but that’s besides the point. https://www.pinterest.com/anjalipullarkat/my-dream-vacation/…
Google Translate Fail
Other than actually learning a language, Google Translate is the option that most people choose when trying to break the language barrier. Its great for getting the summary of an article, but should not be used in place of an actual translator (most of this is pretty well known for most patrons of the internet). […]
Smarter Than You Think? A Response
Hi friends, The selection we read from Smarter Than You Think: How Technology is Changing Our Minds for the Future by Clive Thompson is essentially our #howthewebworks class’ syllabus in a nutshell. Every single chapter focused on a either a…
Smarter Than You Think Assignment
For our last assignment we were told to read chapters 5-10 from the book “Smarter Than You Think”. I enjoyed reading the book and came to understand the effect technology has on our everyday lives. It is normally harder to see this effect since most of us have grown up with all of this technology […]
“Smarter Than You Think” Essay
“The history of factual memory has been fairly predictable up until now. With each innovation, we’ve outsourced more information, then worked to make searching more efficient. Yet somehow, the Internet age feels different. Quickly pulling up “Tori Amos” on Google seems different from looking up a bit of trivia in an encyclopedia. It’s less like […]
DS 106 assignment #2
Have you ever wanted to get into someones phone to mess with them or to see what they may be hiding from you? This simple video will teach you how to unlock someone’s iPhone without their password. Unfortunately, this will only work on and iPhone. ———————————————————————————————————————————– As you probably figured out from the video, that […]
Narrative Essay Assignment
This post will be a little more wordy than usual, but I will do my best to completely describe my thoughts and impressions when I was reading “Smarter Than You think”, by Clive Thompson. Anyway, the first point I’d like to bring across is regarding the consequences of having technology at our fingertips. We are […]
“Smarter than you think”
Reading this book called “Smarter than you think” (written by Clive Thompson) in class, I was captivated by quite a lot of information that C. Thompson mentioned. I like the way he pointed out the links between human mind and technology as well as all the evidence he included. The first thing that caught me…
