Can Technology End Poverty? Kentaro Toyama (http://www.bostonreview.net/BR35.6/toyama.php) This is the lead article of a forum on the role of information and communication technology in global development. A ten-year-old boy named Dhyaneshwar looked up for approval after carefully typing the word “Alaska” into a PC. “Bahut acchaa!” I cheered—“very good.” It was April‚ 2004‚ and I was visiting a “telecenter” in the tiny village of Retawadi‚ three hours from Mumbai. The small‚ dirt-floored
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Advantages and Disadvantages of Technology in Education Technology has revolutionized the classroom but is not without its disadvantages--not in its use‚ but in what its use replaces. Many classrooms are being retrofitted with Smartboards and computers but they cannot replace old methods of teaching. 1. Potential o The technology available today has made a wealth of knowledge available to students‚ which offers great potential for the speed and style of learning. Information is presented in
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Music Can Help You Everyone loves music. We can’t live without it. So‚ researchers stepped out and found out that music can help you in so many ways. Crank your music while working out Music can change your mood‚ thoughts‚ and emotions. If you play inspiring songs during a workout‚ you can improve your endurance‚ power and strength. In fact‚ researchers wrote that “music can be thought of as a type of legal performance-enhancing drug.” To energize your next workout‚ load up your mp3 player
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GPS‚ phones‚ credit cards‚ cameras‚ and insulin pumps help us live a qualitative and productive life and NASA has played a very key role in developing many technologies like these. From invisible braces to long-distance communication devices‚ NASA has brought up inventions that we consistently use every day in our lives. A device that many people in the world rely on everyday and something that has made a huge difference in people’s lives is the water filtration system(s). NASA first made it to be
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? In the 1960s‚ technology focused upon delivering structured information to the internal consumer via mainframes. In the 1980s‚ technology had moved to producing structured information for and between internal consumers via minicomputers and PCs. By the 1990s‚ technology had developed into delivering unstructured information to any consumer through the worldwide web. And today‚ technology focuses upon the production of unstructured information for any consumer using social networking
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In our media-intensive society‚ a profusion of media like TV‚ computers have fully integrated into urban life in many spheres like education‚ entertainment‚ and commerce‚ and therefore‚ some people consider that the technology such as multimedia teaching would replace teachers in class. I would say this does not sound very convincing because the superiority of the teachers are obvious. The first and most apparent advantage that face-to-face conversation is a vital ability for the environment of
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Can you keep a secret? *** Okay. First of all‚ my penmanship is worst than a kid’s hand writing. So I just had this type written. Don’t get me wrong‚ I’m not too idle to not write this down. I actually tried writing this down‚ but I couldn’t read it myself either. So I thought resolving to typing would be more legible. :D *** The thing about lying is that you have to do it to protect
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October 26‚ 2012 Jealousy Can Destroy Lives First loves can be the best thing that the world has to offer. The feeling that you get when you see your special someone walk towards you. The fact that you remember everything little thing that he/she did for you that makes you feel like you are the happiest boy/girl in the whole world. Despite all of the good reasons that love brings‚ love can also be the most selfish and heartbreaking thing if the person who you love does not feel the same
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There is almost no place that you can go where technology hasn’t been used. Technology affects our daily lives in everything that we do; it saves time‚ creates a world of endless learning‚ and makes traveling to halfway around the world effortless. Technology greatly reduces the time it takes to perform lives everyday tasks. Daily chores such as mowing the grass or doing the dishes have been reduced from hours to twenty minutes with the invention of the automatic dishwasher and gas powered lawn
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Without Social Interaction no society can survive? Man is a social animal. It is difficult for him to live in isolation. They always live in groups. As members of these groups they act in a certain manner. This interaction or mutual activity is the essence of social life. Social life is not possible without interactions. Social interactions are reciprocal relationships which not only influence the interacting individuals but also the quality of relationships. It is the foundation of society. Without
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