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So, you want your brain connected to your phone? Well according to Forbes there is such a thing. It’s not connected to our phone yet, but it is connected to a computer. The user wears a mobile EEG device that is connected to a computer. The users brain waves are sent to the computer where a program deciphers the waves with a special program. “What will enable that interactivity is, of course, our smartphones. Imagine having an app on your phone that dials up other peoples’ brains, and maybe your brain will be in their contact lists”. “Whoa” like Neo says in the Matrix. Hey what’s the name of that place we got recommended to go to? I don’t know let me get my phone and google it. That is what we hear daily “let me get my phone”, I can’t be without my phone, my phone is my life. A while back I witnessed the Mail Man deliver our phonebook to our house. I thought to myself why even bother printing these books anymore and why waste the Mail Mans time in him delivering it. I cann...

In the video Andreas Ekstrom asked people why they used Google as a search engine. People answered because it works, they didn’t know of any other alternatives, and lastly because it provided unbiased search results.   Well If Mr. Ekstrom would have asked me the same question I probably would have answered the same.   I don’t think there can be any unbiased searches in today’s world. There are simply too many variables that one must go through to get a truly unbiased answer from a search engine. You must be specific in what the subject is being searched and  multiple search platforms should be used. I use google because It has worked for many years and I have never needed to change my search engine. As of right now google is the top search engine used, followed by Bing, and then Yahoo.   We always here the term just “google it”, it’s a catchy phrase. You don’t hear people say, “Bing it” or just “Yahoo it” it doesn’t sound the same. Almost everything that is po...

In the video How a handful of tech companies control billions of minds every day, Triston Harris discusses how these companies can change our minds without us even thinking about it. We are in a day and age that the thing that mostly controls us is the size of a 3x5 card, can be carried almost anywhere, and never more than an arm’s reach. Yes, our cell phones some costing up to $1000 and as low as $20 whatever the case maybe they let you connect to the world wide web and connect to millions of people via social media. These companies have control rooms full of people all seeking one goal, and that is to keep you on the site for as long as possible and for us to click on the most ads. All while Mr. Mark Zuckerberg collects his billions of dollars. After all its not about you it’s about them getting their millions while we click our valuable time away. What these social media companies do is that they are keeping us glued to their company. Say for instance Facebook, when you fir...