Week 1

 3 things I found interesting or important "But the overall consensus is that we need more boundaries. We need to be able to have a little bit more control over our personal information and identity online. And so you're starting to see these sorts of changes take place where these companies aren't able to access as much information as they could about you before." I find this important because I am an advocate for this as well, social media is too advanced and they know too much about us personally. "With the permission of her parents, Ava, then 14, sold selfies that she had posted on Snapchat to a an 18-year-old man, despite the fact that he had bought photos of her, along with personal information, from her friends. He would later show up on her doorstep with a shotgun." This is scary because people are just scary and crazy and everyone doesn't have good intentions. “Think about the last post you've seen that has gone viral. Think about the last p...

 Interesting or Important I find it very interesting on the IRL "What if women built the internet?" how they are all women and when it came to them emailing men about the business you could hear the snobbiness and rolling eyes in their response emails. So they made up this person named Keith to handle the emails,  who is a male obviously and things would get done. I think that this is crazy and sad for one that women are treated less when it comes to business because some men feel that women are dumb and don't know anything when it comes to business. " Everyone in the world is dependent on technology.  From hearing aids to spectacles, drugs to prosthetics, smartphones to contraceptives–human existence is a cycle of inventing things to shape life, and, in turn, be shaped. There is no “natural” state for humans, not since we mastered fire." I find this entire paragraph interesting and important because it made me realize how very true  this is. "In general, i...