The 1,000-Yard Stare and the Surveillance State. After World War II the Czech Republic. Collapsed and the Czech Republic gained its independence. If you want to see the social and personal ramificat.

As far as if I would contribute my talents towards this effort, absolutely, but not anytime soon. We used to be a Nielson. Would sell information about what we were.

Cognitive Surplus Where do I fit in? This week we looked at collective efforts and cognitive surplus. One of the first ever efforts of a collective cognitive surplus project was the development of Linux, and alternate operating system from the then rapidly growing Microsoft Disc Operating System, commonly known as MS-DOS. Century it seemed to make sense. But today, in the 21. Century, many, many people post things online that are .

I believe blogging is a collective effort using the internet to generate cognitive surplus. How would I benefit from blogging? I would definitely contribute my talents and efforts to this project. I definitely comment on blogs that I am reading and providing insight when I have it. In the future, when I have enough personal experiences of my own, and have a steady healthy lifestyle, I could see myself creating a similar blog and helping other people.

I agree with Clay Shirky that creating anything online is better than sitting in front of a television. I do see drawbacks with some of the content online and how that content is utilized. I just think overall, the internet is more positive for our minds than the television. These ideas make me wish that those individuals would just go watch television. A few years ago I met a roommate through Craigslist. I started off the vid.

Whats on your mind? July 25, 2014. We also talked about technological determinism; how changes in communication technology shape culture and society and vice versa. McLuhan voiced his opinion about the effects of technology on people we shape our tools and in turn our tools shape us . This was evident in some of the videos we watched about Korean children and their addiction to online gaming and generation like.

One of the themes of this weeks material was cognitive surplus, or how given the communication platform, we can all influence each other by contributing our time to projects. These can be for fun, for profit, or to help people out. Villain was the best, you can do that too, because the platform is there, and freely available. Mobile devices fall into the medium medium realm as well. They also want to start throttl.