1. Post a 4 or 5 sentence summary of each of the readings below 2. List each rea
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1. Post a 4 or 5 sentence summary of each of the readings below
2. List each reading with the number and title as shown below with each written summary.
Unit 1 introduction
____Overview
_____Reading #1- Five things we need to know about technological change
_____Reading#2-The social century: 100 years of talking
_____reading#3- its a flat world after all
Unit 2 the Economy
_____reading #4 how Google dominates us
_____reading #5- What Facebook knows
_____reading #6- The decision Lens
_____reading #7- The beyond credit cards : Q&A with Dan Schulman
Explanation / Answer
Reading #1- Five things we need to know about technological change
The five ideas can be summarized as follows:
Idea #1: With all technological advances we gain some things, but we lose other things. One example that he gives of this is that with the internet we gain access to knowledge, but we may lose community.
Idea #2: New technologies are never distributed evenly among the whole population. Therefore, we have to ask who is benefiting from new technologies and who may be harmed.
Idea #3: New technologies bring with them new cultural ideas. For example, with the computer comes the idea that knowledge is valuable; this new cultural idea takes the place of an older culture where wisdom was valued.
Idea #4: As new technology is invented, it changes our entire world rather than simply adding a new thing to it.
Idea #5: New technologies are eventually taken for granted. People forget that life was once possible without them.
Reading#2-The social century: 100 years of talking
In 1900, communicating was simple. You could talk to somebody. You could write a letter. You could read ink, printed on paper. That was it, really. If you owned a telephone, you were the 1%.
In 1950, four in ten households owned a telephone or radio. Otherwise, the instruments of making and consuming information hadn't much changed. Talking to people and reading pages made up almost all of the rest of the typical family's communications diet. If you owned a television, you were the 9%.
In 2012, we've lived through a Cambrian explosion of communications technology. If you want to make or consume information, you can do it on Facebook, on Tumblr, on Twitter, on Pinterest, on Foursquare, in texts, on mobile phones, on land-line phones, on VOIP phones, on TV, on iPads, with head phones, with speakers, on the radio, in print, in the mail, and -- especially in the case of a Gchat and Twitter black out -- you are still permitted to speak into a real-live human's face, directly.
reading#3- its a flat world after all
Friedman traces how technology and geoeconomics are reshaping the world into a
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