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Assignment #7 – Essay Map INTRODUCTION: Who would have thought that Hollywood hits were more like futuristic prophecies? We’ve all seen movies where man finally realizes that his enemy is not fellow man, but machine itself. Who will be the lone hero that serves mankind right and defeat the evil //behind// technology? At the rate technology is advancing, humans are becoming more dependable on machine than ever before. Sure, some technology will make the strain of physical activities a bit easier, but technology isn’t only a helping hand to painful physical activities. We’re past the industrial revolution days where technology was merely a way to speed up the production of goods. **Nowadays, technology has taken a whole new turn, to the point where it will think for you, plant opinions into your head, and focus your attention on whatever it pleases.** Sounds a lot like the mainstream media, right? That’s because they’re both in the same twisted system that many people are blind to see. Paragraph 1: The obsession with social networks such as Facebook has got to make someone question things. For example, at face-value, Facebook is a great way to keep in touch with family, friends, co-workers and classmates. Facebook has a massive number of users and an incredible amount of information on each person. (Go into depth on negatives of Facebook)  Quote: "The soft fleshed creatures that we Facebook users are will likely hate the new setting, at least at first. But robots are going to love it. As the largest social network on the web, with an incredible amount of time spent on the site by its users, Facebook holds a giant reservoir of demographic and sentiment data. It is the motherlode - and it's been inaccessible so far because everything has been private so far" says Marshall Kirkpatrick of the New York Times   Paragraph 2: Taking things at face-value can be dangerous, because the art of deception and manipulation is a reality. Our society is designed to outcast those who ask questions or to dismiss them as “tin-foil hat wearing conspiracy theorists”. Recently, advanced research and technology has brought forth the ability to interpret a person’s DNA.  Quote: Jeremy A. Kaplan of Fox News says “The DNA Transistor is a project from IBM Research that aims to advance personalized medicine, by making it simpler (and much cheaper) to read an individual's unique DNA sequence — the special combination of proteins that makes you unlike anyone else.” Paragraph 3: Sometimes people forget that weapons are a huge part of technology. Maybe it’s because people tend to forget their second amendment, and in most cases the rest of the amendments. The military of course, is constantly advancing their weapons technology to create a brutal and devastating arsenal. One of the latest monster weapons is the Massive Ordnance Penetrator. It is a 30,000 pound bomb that has the capabilities of obliterating targets 200 feet below the ground.  Quote: Concerning the areas where this weapon can be put to use, Kurt Nimmo of Infowars says “This is not the kind of weapon that would be particularly useful in Iraq or Afghanistan, but it is ideally suited to hit deeply buried nuclear facilities such as Natanz or Qom in Iran,” ABC notes.

Paragraph #4: Television has always been a tool for corporations, advertisement and mind control. Yes, mind control. The mandatory transition from regular television to digital cable proves that it is crucial for massive corporations and the government to make sure the consumer is constantly glued to their programming. The internet has definitely taken the lead in this age with both children and adults using the internet more than ever. Now, television had made it’s way to the internet, available to everyone with a broadband connection.  Quote: On the availability and accessibility of online television content, Stephen Lawson from the New York Times wrote, "Bring more TV content, more easily to more people across platforms," is the first principle. Programmers should make their best and highest-rated content available online, where subscribers can watch for no additional charge over any broadband connection, the framework says."  <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;">Paragraph #5: The internet is arguably man’s greatest invention. Information about almost anything in the world is available at everyone’s finger-tips. Technology isn’t always a bad thing if utilized for something productive. One can educate themselves about any topic imaginable without setting a foot outside of their home. The online encyclopedia, Wikipedia, continues to grow at a fast rate because of the freedom people have to edit pages, insert information, citations, etc. Despite what many think, Wikipedia is a great source for information because it is made up by people from both sexes, different races, religions, and ages rather than control-hungry corporate giants <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;"> <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;">Quote: Wikipedia has arguably reached the status of global encyclopedia. Noam Cohen of the New York Times says "Considering that Wikipedia has reached Top Five world status among Web sites – with more than 330 million users – its annual Wikimania conference, which ended Friday night in Buenos Aires, featured a lot of hand-wringing about all the problems the project faces."