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Convergence

Convergence is a crazy topic and scary one to discuss. What ever happened to the good old days when friends used to get together and plan to go watch a movie in theatres. That’s all changed with the converging of technology nowadays they hype is not about planning for a movie we its all about when the movie will be released to the web or be available for purchase online. Theatres are going thru a crisis and have choice to make weather to stay open or go out business because all the movies being able to be streamed online days after it is released. Many theatres that had been around for years have been shutting their doors or being bought out by the major cinemas like AMC or Regal. Everything that we would have to wait for or must get is all being available at our fingertips. Convergence is making it easier people to access things. Newspapers companies are slowly all switching to digital paper, now this can be a good thing and a bad thing. Good in the sense that we are saving paper wh

What I am Excited About and What I fear

Technology is advancing every day and newer things are being launched daily that is changing the way we do things. I have more fear than being excited due to the face that this advancement is bringing fear to people. The biggest fear that I and as well many other people faces is jobs. Many labor jobs are being taken away and people are being replaced with robots. Many companies are finding it cheaper to buy a robot to do basic labor jobs and take away the physical person. This really brings fear since we are just in the beginning stages of the tech advancement with time advancements are going to be out of this world. Literally every day new advancements are just mind blowing, when tesla unveiled its new semi-trucks, don’t get me wrong they are very cool but they are going to take away thousands of jobs which is the scary part to me. Another great example is amazon and their drone that they are trying to launch, if they are actually able to launch that it will reduce the need for some

Topic For My Presentation

For my presentation I would like to talk about social media with an emphasis in cyber bulling. This a very big topic so if were to talk about just social media solely it would be a very big presentation. With the creation of all these new social media sites such as Facebook, twitter, Instagram, snapchat, etc. cyber bullying is a topic that people need to learn about. Personally, I feel as if there should be informative classed offered to kids in middle or even in high school to educate. The new generation is being born in to the era of social media. Social media is a very good tool that can help people and even destroy people. Many people have been victims of cyber bullying where they have been talked down upon on websites such as twitter, Facebook. This topic is very dear to me because many people I know have been victims and it just really annoys me. My friends were called bad names because of the way the look and that really can bring someone down. This may be a minor case but the