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The Future Arrived in June | Weeknotes #444 I often think that it's best to explain that a climate model simulates a 'possible world' where a set of assumptions are allowed to play out....

The Future Arrived in June | Weeknotes #444

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Every single weekend this month is packed. This week also I've had deadlines, delays, and unexpected late-night edits. But somehow, things are moving forward.

Back for a Speech | Weeknotes

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Words Carry Our Meanings to Others

Words Carry Our Meanings to Others

Words Carry Our Meaning to Other

Words carry our meaning to others in the quickest most direct way. Therefore, we should use words as a main source of communication and argumentation.

“Relationships are negotiated through language.” (Pinker, 2005). Since the alphabet was created, words have been used as a communication tool.  Sometimes communication is  nonverbal, and words are used to gain…

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Advancements in Technology & A Change in Society

                In the first three Web 2.0 readings from 1945-1946, the authors evaluate and reflect upon different advancements, improvements and changes that have occurred in technology, the way society utilizes technological tools and the change that has occurred as a result of this advancement. Bush (1945) evaluates the various ways in which scientists have helped human kind (food, clothing, mental & physical health, etc.) Scientists and researchers are one of the first groups of people to experiment with new technological tools. It was particularly interesting to read Bush’s description of record keeping over fifty years ago- “pushing a pencil or tapping a typewriter” (p. 2). This description proves the drastic rate at which technology, specifically technology in writing, can transform and develop. In modern society, the typewriter has already become an obsolete technological tool; and the traditional paper and pencil method of recording is well on its way out. Both Julian Dibbell (1993) and Sherry Turkle (1996) analyze how society relates to the writing and reading environment that has been created through the advancements of technology. Writing environments have changed the way we think, read and write (Text messaging, Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, etc). Each has created its own understood form of language and way of communicating, essentially contributing to the creation of a new, unique, technological community.