Is the Internet Bad For You? Socrates feared writing would make us forgetful. He believed written knowledge didn’t give us the same wisdom as oral knowledge (100). Hieronimo Squarciafico‚ the Italian humanist‚ believed the easily available books that the printing press provided would lead to weaker minds (100). Writing and the easy access to books‚ two of the world’s biggest discoveries‚ yet they were seen as things that would harm people rather than help. Nicholas Carr advocates the harmfulness
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Dependent on the Internet As the internet has become very popular among teenagers over the past few years‚ there have been many social impacts affecting the stakeholders of the issue. Teenagers use the internet for various reasons: to do research for homework or a project‚ to socialize with friends‚ and to keep up with the latest movies‚ music‚ and video games. The internet allows teens to be receptive to many resources that would not be available to them without the internet. Although some
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Our subject‚ Jimmy‚ has been using the internet for the past four years. He got started at a friend’s house -- they were young‚ bored‚ and out of money. Jimmy was once an arcade jockey‚ spending long hours in noisy recreational facilities. "Jump‚ man! That barrel’s rolling straight at you!" his best friend would shout. "I am jumping!" But alas‚ he would fall to a gruesome death‚ his on-screen representation a mess of pixels‚ half smashed into the ground. They would go home‚ pockets
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Is The Internet a Human Right? A Review and Assessment of Human Rights and the Internet. It may seem blasé‚ or more probably naive‚ in this post dot-com-bust world to still hold out that “information is power” and‚ moreover‚ that the Internet is fundamentally different than any previous information technology. Perhaps I am guilty of such sentimentalities‚ but allow me at least for the sake of argument to hold on to a small hope that the Internet really is something new. It would then be true that
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old people use the internet every day. Even thought the mobile phones have also the function of the internet. People say “It is evolution of technology with it industry”. But the time goes and goes‚ they also find some weak point. Especially‚ the children are very fast to adapt to their atmosphere. Using the internet is good to children or not? First of all schools have embraced the digital age and new technologies‚ including laptop computers‚ replacing printed books with e-books‚ making students use
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Introduction Internet is a technology that provides global network and has become an unavoidable concept in the last few years. This technology which started as a basic tool within military‚ government & university operations has exploded into a world class communication medium and has become the backbone for organisations. Businesses are exploiting this technology on a large scale and implementing it widely in all their functional processes (Aguiar & Oliveira‚ nd). In this report we touch base
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1. What is Internet and Computer Addiction? Internet and Computer Addition has different variety of impulse-control problems which includes: (a) Cyber-Relationship Addiction – it is an addiction to different social networking sites which causes people to care more to their online friends than their real-life friends and family. (b) Net Compulsions – online businesses such as eBay often causes to financial problems. (c) Information Overload – causes people to interact less with their family and
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Introduction The Internet is a huge collection of computer networks that can communicate with each other – a network of networks. It is built upon thousands of smaller regional networks spread out around the world. It has emerged as a powerful tool for education. It is a confluence of all kinds of information related to each and every field of education. It also allows teacher and students‚ sitting in far flung areas to interact‚ share and exchange information. This paper seeks to study about
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phones and ipads‚ the internet is the big reason behind us spending so much time on these gadgets. The internet is probably one of the greatest inventions of the century. Before this invention we had to go to the library to do our research but now‚ all we have to do is go to Google and do our research. We can do many things with the internet; we can shop‚ chat with your friends in Facebook or Skype‚ watch videos in YouTube‚ earn money from blogging‚ and many more! The internet is really useful and
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Is using the Internet a boon? In this fast-paced world where everyone is competing to be the first in whatever they are embarking on‚ face-to-face communication with a person is getting rarer and flipping the books to get information has been a method gone outdated. However‚ this has been replaced by one powerful tool that does these and even more. This is none other than the Internet. Internet has been defined as the global system of interconnected computer networks designed to serve the people’s
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