This week we discussed Claude Shannon and his concerns with how we maintain quality of sound, and that information does not regard the “meaning” of the message as to deliver it more effectively. The latter argument can be supported by redundancy in the English language, which has been gradually degraded in the modern age through […]

In the third week of class the primary focus was advancements in technology as a result of modern warfare. Someone mentioned during the discussion was Max Weber who stated that modern life in the Industrial Age had become rationalized. The following question was raised: does technology produce outcomes we expect or prefer? This question relates […]

This weeks discussion involved a debate regarding the Carr novel entitled “The Shallows,” which argues the overplayed trope that the internet and technology has severely impacted the intellectual quality and capacity of the modern generations. Is he right? Yes! Technology has entirely altered the process of linear thought, damaged our attention spans, and caused the […]

The week was filled with the usual niceties, for example “hello my name is professor so and so welcome to my class here’s what your grade is made up of,” and then we were posed with the classic question: does this generation have terrible taste in music? Now anyone below the age of 30 has […]