WEEK 1 & 2 Discussion Questions 

1. With today's TV, email, Twitter, FB, etc., I believe that ones mind can be swayed and that the opinion be forms my not be their own. I think that the more people let these things control their lives and take up all of their time, the more actual human communication disappears. This scares me. The information that we get off of the computer or through TV is not always correct; it may be false or they may leave things out. You also have to remind yourself who controls what we do and don't know.

2. Paul Levinson suggests that technological developments don't automatically cause outcomes, it enables new outcomes. For example, teaching and learning are of classroom interaction that are enabled by computers and the Internet couldn’t have occurred before they were invented. Maybe with these inventions the classroom wont need teachers, books, pencils, pens.

3. Advancement in Agriculture - Living off the land to Giant machines that stand alone and mass produce. -  exhausting resources, destroying the environment , global warming, and lack or employment

Advancement in Transportation - Simple desire to just get from A to B to families owning multiple vehicles - exhausting resources, global warming, and lack or employment

4. Free will and television because most productions that are on tv either have false information or stray people away from the truth. THe obstruction happens because one may be brain washed or have their mind altered based on what they watch on television. They prevent some individuals from self thinking and common sense. 

5.The advantages of the alphabet are great, you can communicate easier. The disadvantaged are far greater ; you are conformed to using the 26 letter that you must learn in order to communicate, doesn't sound like free will at all to me.

6.Ancient Egypt had a complex writing system conferred a monopoly of knowledge on literate priests and scribes. Mastering the arts of writing and reading required long periods of apprenticeship and instruction, confining knowledge to this powerful class. Monopolies of knowledge gradually suppress new ways of thinking.

7. Other than today's societies, universities have attempted to monopolize certain kinds of information, and professional associations such as doctors or engineers or lawyers, even governments. You only know what you're supposed to know. They want us to be in a stupid little bubble so we cant thing logically and all conscious thinking is gone.

8. Jargon may seem incomprehensible to anyone not part of that particular field, it does indeed make sense to anyone familiar with the terms involved, for the simple reason that jargon is meant to allow for clear, unambiguous communication between specialists: if an average computer user says "I can only connect to one network, and even then, I don't have Web or storage," a trained engineer would report this as "User can associate their NIC with only one SSID, and does not seems to be receiving an IP address from the DHCP server."

9.When it comes to cloud computing and our dependencies on it, I think without t devices , most people would completely be frantic this mean you have to physically find that person and tell them what you want. This would change schedules, emotion life, relationships. In the beginning it would be hard to get used to, but in the end it would be positive because things would go back to the normal way.