In "All Watched Over" by Richard Brautigan and in Passage II by Issac Asimov, the authors established a controlling idea about the co-existence between computers and humans. The author of the second passage shows how people depend on computers in their lives. The authors use literary eleme...

The Human Mind vs. Computers The mind-body problem has captivated the minds of philosophers for centuries. The problem is how the body and mind can interact with each other if they are separate and distinct. One solution to the problem is to replace any mental term with a more accurate physical des...

The difference between a human and a computer is similar yet far fetched. In the past decade that would have thought we would have evolved to such a higher and more sophisticated human? I mean computers in my opinion might as well be us except for the lack of communication skills along with emoti...

Creating a strategy The perfect situation is to have no competition at all. In today\'s competitive environment, you might think this is inconceivable. Perhaps you need to reconsider because there are organizations that have succeeded in developing non-competitive environments by playing the game di...

In "The Intimate Machine," Neil Frude introduces the idea of using a computer as a companion instead of a tool. Throughout the story, he explains that the computer makers need to begin building computers that are "softened" and "humanized." Frude believes that by giving the computer "a personality...

Sara and her mother drove to the computer store. Sara had her money she received from Christmas and the money she saved and she waited a long time for this day. Finally, she would be able to look at all the things she needed for school on her computer and email her friends. Sara thought she woul...

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is an area of research that goes back to the very beginnings of computer science. The possibility of building a machine that can perform tasks that require human intelligence is an incredible one. Artificial Intelligence was once something that people thought could only ...

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE What is artificial Intelligence? Are machines intelligent? And if so, are machines capable of consciousness, emotion, or even aesthetics? For several years now, there has been an ongoing debate as to whether computers are intelligent or not. Currently, no computers exhibit fu...

Thinking of our world today makes me wonder about tomorrow, a year, a decade, or a century later. I look back at what we did in the past and what we have accomplished as a race, a human race. It makes me realize how much can happen in a matter of years. What will happen in this next centur...

The contribution of cognitive psychology to the scientific study of behaviour Cognitive psychology examines the way the mind processes information; this is studied to determine behaviour. Most psychologists are interested in finding general laws for behaviour and then using them to predict behavi...

People seek words and phrases that convey their ideas, to have an impact or to alter in some way the listener's minds or even the trend the world is taking. However, I feel that once the words are free from being restricted in one's mind and are expressed, they are never able to so vividl...

1. Communication Since the advent of technological revolution, my writing skills have improved and developed to cope up with the changing pace of technologies present. Because of technological revolution, computers and the Internet have emerged, two technology media that increase...

Epistemic actions are defined as actions taken to alter the world so as to aid cognitive processes as opposed to pragmatic actions which alter the world in order to reach a desired goal. Epistemic actions are considered by many to be in itself cognitive despite the fact that they are external or ext...

The science of practical and industrial arts is defined by the term technology. Harlan Ellison illustrates this in "I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream" that an anti-technology viewpoint of machines can be used as the controlling force of the future. "The Machine Stops" by Edward...

The new and exiting ways of modern day computers and their increasingproliferation have definitely transformed the human and machine identity.As Turkle indicates computers have ceased to be simple logical machines,which just 'did the job for us' but now have a subjective influence on us,affect...

I'm sitting down at a computer that has very vast capabilities. It is capable of almost any application, but it being only the size of my history textbook, leaves it fragile and vulnerable. With a few light slams, or the pass of a powerful magnet, it's very existence could be destroyed. Ancient ti...

Technology is a wonderful thing, because there are so many ways we can put it to use. We can use it destructively or let it do our dirty work. In the last century we put our technology into computers. They have been a great use to us in terms of finding information, communicating, writing, drawing, ...

I am convinced that some of the greatest people on earth do not see their name in neon lights, nor do they have the most money or fame. Instead, they exist in our everyday lives and it is up to us to realize how very un-ordinary they really are. Such is the case with my uncle, Matt. Matt ...

CRITICAL POSITION PAPER ON ETHICAL ISSUES RELATED TO PRIVACYI decided to pick the Robert Morris case in chapter four for my scenario to discuss. I believe this case has several ethical problems that we need to deal with. First of all, there is the obvious act that Robert Morris intentionally creat...

As a child I always thought that I knew what I wanted to do when I grew up. However, I always changed my mind and thought of something else that I would like to do when I get older. I would change my mind quite often and be very sure of myself that I had made the right choice. Then given time I wou...

The article, The Theory of Business, is about how businesses find their own theory of the business. What is theory of business? A theory of business has three parts. The first part of theory of business is the assumptions about the about the environment of the organization which are the society ...

Desiree Ferro October 22nd, 2001 Critical Thinking Review of Sherry Turkle's Article Sherry Turkle is an author of many things. She enjoys to write about cultural aspects of psychoanalysts and about the human relationship to technology. Her main focus is on online role-playing games...

With the past few weeks, I can honestly say that this English 101 course has helped me so much already. I used to have trouble with being able to think clearly and I also had trouble with being able to write in a way in which my reader would be able to understand where I'm coming form. Now, ...

English Speech: Artificial intelligence It is the year 2786. The world as we knew it ceases to exist and now lies in chaos and turmoil. It is a world consisting of baron wastelands stripped of all vegetation and life forms. Humanity lies at the brink of extinction. With only a few sti...

Should a national identification system in which each American's DNA pattern is registered be established? Has the U.S. come to the point where we have to devise a national identification system in which everyone's DNA pattern is registered in a network of computers? I believe so, and...