Ted talk,Mind Control & the Internet, and Clive Thompson on High-Bandwidth Buddies response

The Ted talk discussed this concept of “filter bubbles” which happens when you use a search engine; the way this works is that when you look up something on a search engine the results you receive would be totally tailored to your interests. The video goes on to talk about how this way of searching will leave us with a lack of true connection to the world which I think is true because if your search results were always based on what you like and not take account any other elements such as others point of views like the ones found on the Ted talk they explain how that instead of connecting us to everyone it forms a sort of bubble among bubbles, a space that is all for you and without any exposure of anyone else’s. I believe this would eventually be detrimental for people and the way they come to discover and understand things because they would be limited to only their currents ideas instead of a sea of other people’s ideas.

The article "Mind Control & the Internet" by Sue Halpern goes much more in depth with this idea of a personalized web experience. They discuss technology that help people with various disabilities, technology that just helps in a sense upgrade the average person, personalized ad’s, and technology that would be used for war. They explain how they helped various people regain their hearing which is a very fascinating ability that technology is capable of because it helps and doesn't cause harm which what technology should be used for. The article also talked about technology that would enable an average human to carry a greater memory capacity that can store various sorts of information such as new languages. They point out how various ways that companies sneak in ads based on previous searches that user had done which to me seems very devious on the company’s part because it influences people to buy when they weren't really planning on it. However what seems most frightening to me is that they want to implement technology for war in the article they described how scientists were developing helmets that enable solders to communicate with one another without making a single sound.

The article "Clive Thompson on High-Bandwidth Buddies" by Clive Thompson talked about relationships between people who think alike compared to relationships with people who don’t think quite alike. The article went on to explain how people who had more acquaintances and few close friends was more beneficial in gaining new ideas then it was to have less acquaintances and more close friends. They concluded that close friends will ultimately share very similar ideas as a pose to those with more acquaintances because they will often not share similar ways of thinking thus opening your mind up to a more variety way of thinking.

Both articles share this sense of isolation from the internet world as a whole because it is become much more personalized that people are just not having enough exposure to different ways of thinking other than their own which will ultimately hinder their growth as a person because they will not be able to obtain the wide array of knowledge from others.