by durkinp | Mar 4, 2013
Peter Durkin Topic #7 As evidenced by society and literary texts, technology is causing the separation between reality and the virtual world to become indivisible. This is made evident by an analysis of the protagonist’s sentiment in the novel Snow C…
by durkinp | Feb 24, 2013
In her anecdote A Real Girl, Shariann Lewitt depicts the complex existence of a woman who struggles to recognize her identity in an unprejudiced society. This woman has a technological physique, but displays other human characteristics like feelings an…
by durkinp | Feb 9, 2013
Peter Durkin 1. For this essay I decided to write about the fourth topic. The topic consists of Michele Willson claiming that people that become obsessed with a social arena in a technologically enabled interaction have a negative impact on community b…
by durkinp | Feb 3, 2013
In his distinguished futuristic novel Snow Crash, Neal Stephenson portrays a prospective society where the rule of government is nonexistent and the citizens of this world can enter a computer-generated world known as the Metaverse. With the absence of…
by durkinp | Jan 19, 2013
Peter Durkin In her latest Ted Talk Connected But Not Alone, Sherry Turkle presents the various aspects of how technology is affecting our psychology and the way human interaction occurs. Turkle commences by telling an anecdote of the first Ted Talk sh…