The Internet Era By Mark Zuckerberg

Andrew Blum’s "What is the Internet, really?" video is about a journalist who started wondering what the Internet was really made of. So when a squirrel chewed through a cable and knocked him offline, he set out to go see the internet. Except it wasn’t an individual world instead it was a connection of underwater cables, secret switches and other physical bits that make up the net.

Given the task of conceptualizing a man who truly changed the realm of technology as we know it today, my mind secludes one person. That person is Steve Jobs, co-founder of Apple Computer, now known simply as Apple. For this rhetorical analysis, I will be using three biographies/profiles about Jobs including “The Real Genius of Steve Jobs” by Malcolm Gladwell with The New Yorker (June 19, 2017), “Jobs’ Biography; Thoughts on Life, Death, and Apple” from NPR (October 25, 2011), and “Steve Jobs” from Biography.com (April 28, 2017). Precise attention to the audience, purpose, and tone, allows all three of these profiles to vividly explain and represent Jobs as the truly exceptionally minded man that he was.

There is no doubt that the power of language is a major component in influencing Australia’s contemporary society. Documentary film texts such as Brian Knappenberger’s 2014 expository style documentary ‘The Internet’s Own Boy: The Story of Aaron Swartz’ as well as Alex Gibney’s 2013, ‘We Steal Secrets’, position Australian audiences to feel a certain way about privileged social and cultural issues. The texts do this through their use of language features and devices such as editing, non-diegetic sound, emotive language. Through the texts incorporation of these language features and devices, they are able to appeal to our societies values of the truth and anti-authoritarianism.

Many know him as the man who invented the social networking website, Facebook. He is mainly known as a very rich and generous man. Zuckerberg has donated his profits to a failing school, has spent billions to help research on childhood sickness, and he has signed pledges saying that he will donate his money to charities. Although, he did have a setback. Mark was blamed for supposedly stealing ideas from college classmates on a social site that they had made for Harvard

“How the Internet is making us stupid” is an article written by Nicholas Carr for a book called “ The Shallows”, the New York Time Bestseller. Nicholas Carr is an acclaimed writer on technology and culture. He wrote several books, articles, blogs, and essays for New Your Times, Wall Street journal, the New Republic, Wired, and Nature.

Mark Zuckerberg and Patrick Soon-Shiong came from different backgrounds, and although now they have earned a spot in the Forbes Top 400 Most Successful Entrepreneurs, it seems that Mark had more than advantage that led to his success. Mark Zuckerberg is the son of dentist Edward Zuckerberg and psychiatrist Karen Kempner. Zuckerberg attended private school after demonstrating great proficiency in his classes at public school, and he received numerous accomplishments in science, math, astronomy, physics, and classical studies. Mark Zuckerberg lived the life of a middle class individual, where he had access to a stable household income, a prestigious education, and an opportunity for advancement in his youth giving him the opportunity to explore different realms. Compared to minority entrepreneurs, Zuckerberg has succeed far beyond a life’s worth of work. In comparison Patrick Soon-Shiong worked in his father’s store in South Africa and had grown up learning about traditional medicine through his father. Soon-Shiong had lots of hands on experience being a

The article “Confidence Woman” by Belinda Luscombe talks about Facebook’s chief operating officer (COO), Sheryl Sandberg. It began by describing how she acted as a child; according to her family, Ms. Sandberg was a born leader and was known for ordering her younger brothers around (yet, she says she has misgivings talking about these stories in her book because they make her seem “bossy” and the term is almost always applied for girls and never for men.) The author then proceeds to describe Sandberg, stating that she seems she was born 43, delivered with the ability to order everyone around and ensure they thrive. She has perfected her skills and successfully runs a $66 billion dollar company with ease. Now, Ms. Sandberg has become an advocate

The internet is changing our brain for the worse. While we get to communicate with each other better and have a lot of information at our fingertips, we lose many important things as well. We are quick to congratulate the success of Google and Apple that we miss the real danger. Nicholas Carr shows us how we aren't seeing the real danger of the internet and he tells us what we are sacrificing for the internet. He explains to us how the internet is making us easily distracted, removes our ability to think linearly, and weakens our capability to learn.

The Silicon Valley is the most ferocious jungle in the world, full of money, lying, love, and hate. Programmers have one mantra: Keep up or die trying. Ben Mezrich beautifully embodied all of this in his book The Accidental Billionaires: The Founding of Facebook. Facebook, now a $547 billion dollar company, drove best friends Mark and Eduardo apart. Mark Zuckerberg, a genius hacker who was so advanced he was on an F.B.I watchlist, and Eduardo Saverin, a genius investor who was confident and dressed well, both met at a Phoenix Club punching event. The Phoenix club was the club for the socially elite, and both were invited on account of being geniuses. When Eduardo was invited to the next event and eventually was invited to join, it was apparent that Mark was very Jealous. It was hard to tell

After watching the movie The Social Network, the first thing I did was to search for Mark Zuckerberg’s real life experiences to see which parts are facts and which are fictions. As a matter of fact, this Harvard genius that founded the world’s first social network was not as childish as the movie portrayed. At least he didn’t write programming for getting into elite Harvard “Final Clubs” or for retaliating his girlfriend. During Mark’s high school, Microsoft and AOL tried to purchase the music player that he built and also invited him to join them. However, Mark decided to enroll in Harvard for further education. From where I stand, although the movie is fictional, it can easily

Men are not created with the same mind-set nor the same motives as one another, but we all had the same thought of becoming a billionaire at age 20. The author mentions Mr. Zuckerberg as “a 26-year-old scruffily dressed Jewish kid who started a cultural revolution in his dorm room and inspired a movie that may just win an Oscar for best picture”(Rabin 482). Also another way he effectively appeals to the opposition by the opinion of other people, because no one in their right minds would guess a person who dresses in their pajamas in the middle of broad day could be the next 26-year-old billionaire. But that’s the flaws of judging a book by its cover. One can say that Mr. Zuckerberg had a clarity to be successful, there’s a saying in which goes for everyone who is striving to be successful “If you don’t help build your own dream, someone else would hire you to build theirs”.

Our footprints follow us everywhere we go. We leave a variety of different footprints, but it seems that our society forgets some of the most important ones. Our digital footprint leaves a long-lasting impact on the way people perceive us. It is crucial for everyone to become informed on the impacts their digital footprint can have. Every single tweet, status, story, or e-mail you send matters. It can greatly affect how others perceive you.

Throughout American history, the ideas surrounding the concept of community have been subject to a steady flow of change—fluidly evolving to suit both the shifting of social groups and changing of technologies alike. Initially, community was loosely defined; the word was held to describe a group simply inhabiting a common geographical area, as in a town or nation. This was a passable explanation of social structure in the world predating mass-transit and modern communication, in which an individual would be anchored to their immediate surroundings. Although this limited understanding is still applicable to the term, recent sociologists have broadened the older, localized definition to better fit the current state of social paradigms. The word itself is derived from the Latin word communis, pertaining to “things held in common”; this idea extends beyond basic

The Next Decade, a novel by George Friedman, talks about the predictions of countries in the upcoming decade and how the United States should react to the various challenges. The novel’s first major claim is that the United States is actually an empire, similar to how Rome and Great Brian were. However, unlike the previous empires, the United States refuses to acknowledge its status as an empire. “What makes the United States an empire is the number of countries it affects, the intensity of the impact, and the number of people in those countries affected.” The implication of this quote is that the US has gotten to be so large, if the US decided to draw out of global affairs, the impact would be detrimental. Instead of escaping its duty to the world, Friedman claims that the United States must acknowledge its status as an empire and function as such in order to maneuver the next decade. This claim is a wise claim made by Friedman, but it his only claim of worth in the novel. In The Next Decade, Friedman fails to make his thesis credible because he doesn’t his sources, provide logical arguments on his predications of the future, or examine alternative possibilities.

“The biggest risk you can take, is to take no risk” is a wise quote from Mark Zuckerberg, a man who is definitely is a strong abider of his very words. But what makes this man such a risk taker? This man, Mark Zuckerberg, created Synapse, is the founder of the Facebook era, and is the world’s youngest billionare.He is a high school programing prodigy and a software developing genius. Mark’s most famous accomplishment, Facebook, is the world’s largest social networking site. Heard of it? Good or Bad? Member or not? You have most likely encountered talk of this phenomenon. Is it a phase or an addiction? A help or a hindrance? Whatever it is, Mark’s accomplishments updated his and our statuses permanently .