The Model-T Car Industry

What if our life becomes fully dependent on the electronic devices in the future? “In Into the Electronic Millennium”, Birkerts discusses his concerns with the oncoming electronic world. Birkerts provides lots of cons about the electronic devices that can affect people's lives. The author’s intention for writing this essay is to make the audience aware of the significant changes that have started to occur as electronic technologies have developed. He uses various rhetorical devices to convey his arguments to the readers. Through this essay, he is trying to inform the academic community that the culture of printed words has ended in the society, while electronic technologies are starting to dominate. Birkerts uses anecdotes, juxtaposition,

Machines running, hammers dropping, and drills drilling are the sounds of Henry Ford’s revolutionary assembly line. Henry Ford grew up in the late eighteenth century during the industrial revolution. There were no electric lights, only gas lamps and candles. Horses and trains were the only cost effective way of transportation for the public. When Henry Ford was a child, he saw a steam driven car on the road and was mesmerized. At this point, he knew he longed to become a mechanic that works on cars. At the age of sixteen, Henry Ford got a job as an apprentice machinist in Detroit at the Detroit Dry Dock Company. Three years later he returned to work on the family farm, and became adept at operating the

Technology and computerization has taken over almost every major industry today. More people purchase their movie tickets through an application on their phone, do their Christmas shopping online, deposit checks by taking a picture on their phone. Some people can even earn their degree without stepping their foot into a classroom, obtaining it completely online. With all of these advances in so many different

When assessing the risks of digital technology’s role in our future, many reflect on the developments of new technology throughout history. Nicholas Carr, author of “Is Google Making Us Stupid?” uses historical examples to support his claim that we should fear technological advancements. In contrast, Brooke Gladstone and Josh Neufeld, authors of “The Influencing Machines,” examine both sides of the issue and ultimately conclude that we should not fear technological development. One technological development Carr as well as Gladstone and Neufeld examined was the printing press. Carr asserts that most of the arguments about the printing press turned out to be correct including that it “would undermine religious authority, demean the work of scholars

Everyday, whether if it’s on the internet or on television, we hear big technology companies battling their way to be the best and that they have the next big great thing coming out that will utilize and change the world. Nicholas Carr, a writer that frequently writes about technology, wrote the article “Is Google Making Us Stupid,” which was originally the cover article in the July/August 2008 issue of the Atlantic. The author shares his personal experience with technology to support his argument that technology is slowly taking over our lives and our thinking. Nicholas Carr informs his readers about the effect of technology on people in order to bring awareness to technology addicts. The writer attempts to reach his audience, of this generation and the next, with a persuasive and argumentative tone. This essay will analyze several components of

Towards the beginning of Carr’s essay he contradicted himself by saying, “Research that one required days in the stacks or periodical rooms of libraries can now be done in minutes.” (371) Within the next paragraph Carr states, “The advantages of having immediate access to such an incredibly rich store of information are many.” It is not Google alone, nor just the Internet that we need to worry about, it’s the technological advancement overall. Throughout history people have criticized technological advancements, but look past the endless possibilities it created. Now we are only one click away from information that we need, instead of looking at the information that we use to carry inside our heads. Frederick Taylor created a system that created the best outcome for factories but the Internet is a machine designed for the best outcome, “the perfect algorithm, to carry out every mental movement of what we’ve come to describe as knowledge work.” (375)

It is evident that the United States is one of the most technologically advanced countries of today’s modern world. The article “The World’s Leading Nations for Innovation and Technology,” written by Richard Florida, ranks the U.S. ranks 3rd internationally based on research and development along with innovation. As impressive as it seems, this excess of technology in the country has sucked the upper and middle class citizens into a world of machines. A study conducted by MobileInsurance estimates that the average

Carr explains to us how all of our outside communications or media have intertwined with how the internet has twisted the way minds work. In order to further understand he explains an experiment by Frederick Winslow Taylor on how to improve the efficiency of plant’s machinists. Frederick Taylor was able to improve the speed, efficiency, and maximum output by breaking down factory hands jobs down to the minimum while instructing each worker with a precise set of instructions in order to better off the profit in hand. “ The goal, as Taylor defined it in his celebrated 1911 treatise, The Principles of Scientific Management, was to identify and adopt, for every job, the ‘one best method’ of work and thereby to effect ‘ the gradual substitution of science for rule of thumb throughout the mechanic arts.’”(Carr 8) Taylor believed that with this way of thinking you could apply it to any act of manual labor improving its overall efficiency to almost perfection. Taylor declared “ In the past the man has been first, in the future the system must be first”. ( 9) The system in which he fabricated himself is very much in use at this time as well. In fact Carr explains that we can thank Taylor’s work ethics for they are the ones behind every internet mogul that is helping the internet become the most efficient and most effective way for people to find the information they seek by finding the perfect “algorithm” for it. Carr tells us that the Googleplex, Google’s headquarters, are the internet's high church. He comments that google is founded on the principle that everything can be scientifically measured in order to systemize everything to its highest efficiency. This company has made it its mission to make all the information around the world more accessible and easier to find. Google is trying to become the utopia of all search engines. What Taylor was able to achieve for the work of hand, Google

Nicholas G. Carr has written an abundance of articles about technology. Some of his work includes: Does It Matter? Information Technology and the Corrosion of Competitive Advantage, and The Big Switch: Rewiring the World, From Edison to Google. One of Carr’s achievements, “Is Google Making Us Stupid,” smoothly persuades the reader to believe that the Internet is taking over the human mind. The article’s title brings a tough question to mind for readers. By using a familiar movie scene and arguments embedded with relatable analogies, imagery and metaphors; Carr casually and acceptably leads his audience to a reasonable

Technology has made great advances on a global scale, especially within the last half century. Works of fiction and informational texts have addressed the numerous influences of modern innovation. Although technology is helping our world in many ways, technology has the possibility to overstep its boundaries.

In today's society there is no escape from technology. We are completely submerged in our iPhone, ipads, computers, and gaming systems. These gadgets give us the opportunity to be connected to each other and the rest of the world at all times. But, this is not a glorious step in history. Technology blinds us from the real world. As John Tudor said, “Technology makes it possible for people to gain control over everything, except technology.” We may run our lives with the help of our iPhones and computers, but do these forms of technology in turn control us? At first glance these new advances are greater steps to making our lives easier. But, when examined closely a large portion of technology is the cause of many problems in our society.

Stephen Zonars, the vice president in sales at the Columbus Dispatch, began the presentation by touching first on this idea that we are currently living in a technological revolution. He compared the time we are living in to that of the industrial revolution. In addition, this revolution has drastically affected businesses as the means by which they engage their customers has evolved to an online interfaces. Zonars went on to further demonstrate his point, by noting that Uber is the largest taxi company in the world yet it does not own a single vehicle. He then noted that the majority of people consume news but few do so through the means of a printed newspaper. Twenty years ago 90% of homes in the US subscribed to a various newspaper,

Over this past decade or so, people all around the globe have been granted with greater advancements in technology. From cellphones we can talk to, to 3-Dimensional televisions, we are able to pretty much do anything thanks to these high-tech products. But, should we really be grateful for these easy-to-use devices, or are they taking over the lives of millions? In the articles written by Michael Malone and Daniel Burrus, we receive an inside look on whether todays modern, wired, Web world is, or is not, benefitting society. Although both authors held pretty neutral views on the subject itself, Malone’s support towards the negative effect of technology definitely lures readers into

Our documentary relates to the movie “Tron Legacy” as they both explore the advantages and advancement of technology. The movie is about a boy whose father had disappeared, but was pulled into the same cyberworld as his father. He and his friend ride through the technologically advanced world on their motorcycles to discover that the cyberworld is a more advanced place than what they thought. Although it is not explicitly expressed that technology is our future, it could clearly be assumed that there was an expectation that the technology was in demand to be advanced in the movie. This meant that in order for technology to be advanced, there was a constant need for people to be working towards this. It could only be possible if people are skilled

“What is technology?” Have you ever marveled about the prominence of technology in our day-to-day lives? If you ever have, you have undoubtedly appreciated its complexity and its capability to make everyday responsibilities easier for yourself. For example, you probably admire how cellphones have completely eradicated the old-fashioned method of communicating, by sending mail to friends and relatives. Or how the invention of laptops and computers have brought up a new, more efficient method to stay in touch with the world, though the internet, rather than the previous method of newspapers. However, all these basic ideas of the importance of technology are ideas of what technology has done for you, and can be completely different for others. Have you ever wondered what technology has done for others, perhaps people not in the same circumstances as you, perhaps of a different age, religion, race, gender, or socio-economic status than you? Maybe you haven’t, but Microsoft, a leading technological superpower, certainly have wondered about this as seen in their “Empowering” ad.