It provides good analogies, good quotes, and a lot of knowledge on how the internet is still this huge phenomenon. It reminds me of trying to answer if a president is a good president a year after his first term. The internet Is still relatively new, and The Shallows brings that to life for me.
We haven't mastered the Internet yet, and we don't know If there ever will be a mastering of It, and The Shallows Just reminds people that from our perspective the internet Is still infinite.When Carr goes over how the internet is just the next step in how we write, I ender how great thinkers like Plato, or Socrates would have thought of their modern text. They probably felt like the Library was an infinite amount of knowledge, Just as we think about the internet. As time went on Library became extinct and the internet came to light, thus making it the new infinite source of knowledge people lean on to answer their problems. The book is very reliable from the start, when he says he's an internet addict. It allows for me to understand that he has a perspective that I do not.
Other's Idea and opinions are always resourceful in trying to get valuable information n a topic, because they have to have sources for their work too. "Digital_Anton. " PBS. De. Rachel Drizzle and Douglas Rushmore.
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, 2010. DVD-ROOM. "Digital Nation" Is a Frontline Documentary that aired on PBS on February, 2nd 2010. It deals with humans In today's modern tech filled world. It asks some simple questions, that would be hard for the common internet addict not to get offended too. One of the questions consist of, if we are always at the computer, then where aren't we.
This sparks a lot of interest for me, because what is going on in the outside world, while I'm typing this. It's a question anyone could really ask themselves, but Frontline does a great Job in relating it to technology in the real world. It also goes on about how America has fully embraced the new technology era by training with it. If everyone in America including the Military are embracing the internet then how is one not supposed too, because you almost have too.
Frontline emphasizes how technology Is bringing us back together, but is that for the better or for the worse? Frontline also have a website, that the documentary led me too.It made me realize how much the Internet actually has to offer, and whether or not It Is a good or bad thing to fully embrace the information the internet has to offer. Part of the documentary is very optimistic point of view, where maybe the internet has given us a opportunity to become more of a community. "Internet Addiction Could Be Dubbed Official Affliction ADSM-V. " CENT.
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Web. 03 Par. 2014. This article was published on CENT, and it describes how PAP (Americans' Psychiatric Association) may connect Internet Addiction to the list of Mental Disorders.
CENT is a media website that was founded in 1994.It was founded by Halley Minor and Shelby Bonnie. It recently was purchased as a brand of CBS in 2008. CENT primarily deals with Technology and Internet associated things that consumers are interested in. The article claims that by adding internet addiction to the list, it will Join a list that also consists of 'cocaine independence' and 'podia abuse'.
It also goes on about how the Chinese came up with a report last year on how internet addiction is an actual disorder. It lists a number of side effects, that do coincide with many examples of people I know addicted to the internet.
