Communication and Information Technology
Section A
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Everybody loves it and many cannot live without it. Both articles compact with the issues of the new progress in technology and how we behave on the internet. In the article ”Don’t Want to Talk About It? Order a Missed Call” by Matt Richtel we are mainly presented for a new technology called Slydial, which acts as a voice mail avoid, without risking the phone being answered and have to make awkward conversations and confrontations. Furthermore the new technology saves a lot of people’s time, but it has however also transformed us into a bunch of cowards.
We mainly meet a general negative opinion to the internet, if we look at the article called “Sex, Lies and the Internet.” For example he claims that, the internet destroys many people’s reputations and with it many people’s lives and how easy it is to lie. Also the Internet has become a medium where "the only rules are that there are no rules" (10). The Internet has been misused and we can only ask us self what we can expect of the future.
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In Stuart Jeffries’ article "Technophobia - the sign of a born leader?" he comments on world leaders use of technology. In his opinion it will mostly help a great leader to let others work the cyberspace, be a role model for the rest of the world and claim that he stays in touch with the modern world. To illustrate his claims he mention a lot of important and powerful people as former presidents of the United States, who did not own a mobile phone nor had the skills to write or send an e-mail. He takes this in perspective when he writes: "Like the Queen not carrying money, only really powerful people don’t do cyberspace. They sit at computer-free desks thinking outside the inbox […]" (12).The President of the Unites States has an entire country to administrate, and his mind should not be bothered with unnecessary things.
Jeffries also mentions what the Stanford Professor Donald Knuth has said about emailing: "Email is a wonderful thing for people whose
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Everybody loves it and many cannot live without it. Both articles compact with the issues of the new progress in technology and how we behave on the internet. In the article ”Don’t Want to Talk About It? Order a Missed Call” by Matt Richtel we are mainly presented for a new technology called Slydial, which acts as a voice mail avoid, without risking the phone being answered and have to make awkward conversations and confrontations. Furthermore the new technology saves a lot of people’s time, but it has however also transformed us into a bunch of cowards.
We mainly meet a general negative opinion to the internet, if we look at the article called “Sex, Lies and the Internet.” For example he claims that, the internet destroys many people’s reputations and with it many people’s lives and how easy it is to lie. Also the Internet has become a medium where "the only rules are that there are no rules" (10). The Internet has been misused and we can only ask us self what we can expect of the future.
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In Stuart Jeffries’ article "Technophobia - the sign of a born leader?" he comments on world leaders use of technology. In his opinion it will mostly help a great leader to let others work the cyberspace, be a role model for the rest of the world and claim that he stays in touch with the modern world. To illustrate his claims he mention a lot of important and powerful people as former presidents of the United States, who did not own a mobile phone nor had the skills to write or send an e-mail. He takes this in perspective when he writes: "Like the Queen not carrying money, only really powerful people don’t do cyberspace. They sit at computer-free desks thinking outside the inbox […]" (12).The President of the Unites States has an entire country to administrate, and his mind should not be bothered with unnecessary things.
Jeffries also mentions what the Stanford Professor Donald Knuth has said about emailing: "Email is a wonderful thing for people whose