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Debate About Technology Essays and Term Papers
Technological LiteracyINTRODUCTION: INNOVATION AND DISSEMINATION
Social commentators tell us we are in the midst of a technological and information revolution which will change forever many of the traditional ways we communicate and conduct our everyday affairs. But what is the information revolution? How do the new ...
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Propaganda In The Online Free Speech CampaignPropaganda and Mass Communication
In February 1996, President Bill Clinton signed into law the
Telecommunications Act of 1996, the first revision of our country's
communications laws in 62 years. This historic event has been greeted with
primarily positive responses by most people and companies. ...
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Technology in the Book RagtimeErika Barnett
Professor Jenkins
QU 201
2 April 2012
Ragtime Assignment #1
The novel is set during the "Progressive Era", a time in which large amounts of technological developments and industrialization took place. The era also brought a lot of immigrants as well as an increasingly urban ...
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Is The Internet Bring A New Era Of American Cultural ImperiaThe Internet has emerged as the most rapidity adopted communication medium in history. The Internet by design is de-centralized, inexpensive, uncensored, and accessible from anywhere in the globe. Bill Gates contends that the Internet is first step along the “Information Superhighway”, which will ...
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Virtual Realityas of recent, while still extremely new, has become the
topic of many opposing viewpoints. It has caught the eye of the general public
for several reasons. Perhaps, this is mainly because of all the possibilities
which virtual reality creates. Note that the possibilities are not pre-
determined ...
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Could Gambling Save Science: Encouraging An Honest ConsensusVisiting Researcher, The Foresight Institute
P.O. Box 61058, Palo Alto, CA 94306 USA
hanson@charon.arc.nasa.gov 510-651-7483
To appear in Social Epistemology, 1992. (version appeared: in Proc. Eighth
Intl. Conf. on Risk and Gambling, London, 7/90.)
C O U L D G A M B L I N G S A V ...
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Life, Death, And Politics: A Run-Down Of The Abortion Debate.Few issues have fostered such controversy as has the topic of abortion.
The participants in the abortion debate not only have firmly-fixed beliefs, but
each group has a self-designated appellation that clearly reflects what they
believe to be the essential issues. On one side, the pro-choice ...
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Bridging Technology And AcademeThe current information technology mediums, such as the Internet pose exciting new opportunities for researchers and educators and, at the same time, present numerous questions and challenges. One of the current frustrations of many faculty includes their limited conceptual grasp of how these ...
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Bridging Technology And AcademThe current information technology mediums, such as the Internet pose exciting new opportunities for researchers and educators and, at the same time, present numerous questions and challenges. One of the current frustrations of many faculty includes their limited conceptual grasp of how these ...
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Technology Advancement And Its Effect On Unemployment RateExecutive Summary
Each new generation brings the reemergence of many of the fears of the past, requiring the repetition of old explanations to put them to rest. Today there is a renewed concern that technological advancement may displace much of the manufacturing (and other) work force, creating ...
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Click Vs. Brick: An Exploration Of Mp3 File Sharing And Mp3An exploration of mp3 file sharing and online music piracy, and its ethical implications regarding consumers, musicians, and record companies
“In traditional ethical studies, the classic problem is the starving man – can a starving man ethically steal a loaf of bread if he has no money. The ...
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Click Vs Brick: An Exploration Of Mp3 File Sharing And OnlinAn exploration of mp3 file sharing and online music piracy, and its ethical implications regarding consumers, musicians, and record companies
“In traditional ethical studies, the classic problem is the starving man – can a starving man ethically steal a loaf of bread if he has no money. The ...
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The Chlorine Debate: How White Do You Want It??
Chlorine is one of the world's most widely used chemicals, the building
element vital to almost every United States industry. We use chlorine and
chlorine-based products whenever we drink a glass of water, buy food wrapped in
plastic, purchase produce in the supermarket, pour bleach into a ...
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Mercy KillingIn June of 1990, Dr. Jack Kevorkian, a 63-year-old retired pathologist, was charged with first-degree murder after he helped an Oregon woman with Alzheimer's disease commit suicide in June 1990. The charge was dismissed in December 1990. (Michigan has no law against suicide.) In October of 1991, ...
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Assisted Suicide: Murder or Mercy?
One of the most hotly debated topics going on now is the one concerning the ethics of and euthanasia. Nowadays with all the progress that the medical profession has gained, people who are terminally ill have more options, and there have been continued efforts to give them the ...
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Technology And EducationOur school has an extremely low budget of approximately eighteen million dollars. Where should the money go? Should it go to the English department, or the math and science buildings? Should the money be invested in expanding our school and giving raises to hard-working teachers? Or should ...
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Technology: The Key to our Future“There are over 1 billion internet users worldwide; that's 20% of the world’s population” (Clement). The internet was just the first step that led to all of the advances in technology. Technology has progressed from computers large enough to fill an entire room, to a hand held device. iPhones, ...
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Performances Of A Lifetime In Thelma And LouiseIf the 1991 box office success of Thelma and Louise was unexpected, more surprising was the heated debate that followed its release, a debate over the film’s political status and social implications. While Joan Smith of The Guardian argued that the film’s “effect is perversely to reinforce the ...
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Rhetorical Genders: Performances Of A Lifetime In Thelma And LouiseIf the 1991 box office success of Thelma and Louise was unexpected, more surprising was the heated debate that followed its release, a debate over the film’s political status and social implications. While Joan Smith of The Guardian argued that the film’s “effect is perversely to reinforce the ...
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Privacy And Anonymity And Information Network TechnologiesWe might assume that nothing new could be said about the issue of
privacy behond the basic notion that it is something secluded from the
inclusion of others, a virtue and right that every citizen of a
democratic society might possess. However, if that were actually the
case then we would not see ...
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