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Reference: By Elizabeth Landau, Do digital diaries mess up your brain?
http://www.cnn.com/2009/HEALTH/11/03/digital.diary.brain.mind/index.html

Summary:
In Elizabeth’s article, people are usually lost their old memory, and most of the memories are precious. Now, we have a technology to help people get our daily memory in the computer. For example, the Microsoft developed a camera to catch the pictures of a person’s life. The camera not only takes pictures, but also gets much information about the life. The author also said that, the technology can collect the information about people’s behavior, it’s good for find different things in the society. It may avoid getting some crime. The article also says the technology can help students get more knowledge from the book. This is similar that put your memory to another place. Some people don’t angry this, because if you put your memory in another place, you may do different things.

Reaction:
In my opinion, this technology is not very useful. Like a USB driver, this technology only likes a separate memory card of your brain, and it is not good to tell you how to do something. But I think that it helps scientist in creating new information software, likes an alarm, which can make people comfortable, because people don’t worry about what they forget. The author says the technology should collect much information, such as pictures and sound. If this information become a huge count, that’s could be a kind of rubbish. However, using this technology may be some problems, we should think about both of the good point and bad point, after that, we can choose a suit way of science technology.

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Jun
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Reference:
Social networks and kids: How young is too young?
By Doug Gross, CNN
November 3, 2009 5:44 p.m. EST
http://www.cnn.com/2009/TECH/11/02/kids.social.networks/index.html

Summary:
In Doug’s article, it says there are many websites such as face book are not comfortable. Some people think those website can help children to be smart, and the research shows that children are usually use those websites, even though they found the result is not very correct. Another problem is children will say the untrue ages on websites. This problem could be saved with password or something else. However, some people said they don’t believe the website is useful to help children to be more smart. They also think that if parents take care about this problem, children can do a right thing and to be honest. In today’s life, people are all think a lot for young people, including the websites. It is impossible to stop children using computers in today’s life.

Reaction: In my opinion, the website has some business purposes, so they make the website to be welcomed for young people. It’s good to get money, but not very well for children. I think it’s normal over the world, not only website, but also other businesses. So, the only way can help children use a good way of internet is that their parents have to teach their children how to use a computer in a right way and use their time greatly. But I think many young people don’t know the bad problems about Internet. If they don’t hate bad websites and use computer modest, that could be a huge problem for them. I hope they can be well, because we care about this problem, and publicize the hazard of bad websites now, so they can see it.

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EAP1 Core Major will be Computer Science

Reference:

Mobile-volunteering puts thumbs to work for good causes

http://www.cnn.com/2009/TECH/10/28/digitalbiz.microtasking/index.html

By Cherise Fong, for CNN

October 29, 2009 3:55 a.m. EDT

Summary:

In Cherise’s article, it tells us the mobile can help other people for public good. In today’s life, people can use new kinds of cell phones making volunteer work. Cherise gives an example that Extraordinaries is a knid of software for iPhone. It can collect images and a variety of data to help the children out of poverty, access to learning opportunities. CrowdFlower is a professional providor, and she reports that so far more than 20,000 tasks have been completed, for a total of more than 100,000 points, where the monetary equivalent of 100 points can buy half a fish and a loaf of bread. However, the programme is not very great now, we will watch it in the fiture.

Reaction:

I think this article is hard for me. I tried to understand it very much. The article shows me a mian points that scientists make some programs to inprove our cell phones. We can use many functions of our cell phones. If we can use our phones to help other people who need help, it’s very good and the reason why people invent it. In my eyes, cell phone will be more useful in the future.

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4. transpire: to come out to light.

5. mobilize: to organize for a purpose.

6. collaborative: accomplished by collaboration.

7. contextual: relating to, dependent on.

8. equivalent: equal or interchangeable in value.

9. default: a failure to act