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Video games become more and more popular each year. I did some research and came up with a lot of information dealing with the health of teens that play video games for a majority of their day. These games have become so important that kids are skipping school to play them or even camping outside of best buys to make sure they get the game the first day it comes out. In one of the articles i read the author states that 38% of teens that play video games are not involved in sports or other activities. one of the problems may be they have to much time to waste. These teens basically do not leave their house for the day just to play their favorite game. This is not a healthy lifestyle at all for these teens. It is not good for both their physical and mental health. Video games is becoming more important then school, homework, studying, sports and basically everything else in their lives. In the future i think this topic will be a much larger problem then it already is in todays society.

After reading this article it maskes you realize how much our society relies on computers/machines. Many think this makes everyone much more lazy then they should be?? How much more advanced can these machines become in the future?? Only time will tell but as of now I think without computers it would just slow down our everyday life. Computers are used in eevry house hold, large and small business, and pretty much anywhere you could think of. In todays world, computers arent just used for work and research. They are used for other things such as communication, military use, and to play games on. Would our society be able to function the same without the use of these machines? This is one of the questions I asked myself while reading this article. In my opinion I believe our world would be an entirely different place without the availibility of computers.

This chapters main topic and discussion point is basically about the wirelss internet options we have today and what could happen with the internet in the future. Wireless internet makes a lot more sense then dial up connections or anyhting else because its 10 times easier to use, available in many more places, and only uses a low frequency signal. Simple things like instead of typing a paper at ur desk you can sit in your bed or anywhere else in your house and do it with a wireless connection. Wireless internet is also pretty cheap because multiple people can connect to the same source and if that source isnt working for some reason there is usually plenty other ones available. Another one of the newer ideas out there today is wifi or using radio signals. Rheingold talks about this being used because you can basically use this anywhere you would need to and it would be even cheaper. He also talks about how this changes the older ways of doing things and how far we have come with this kind of technology. Overall wireless has certainly changed past ways of doings things for students, businesses, and just about everyone else.

Rheingold gives many examples of how technology is shaping our everday lives. Without all of this technology our country would be lost. With all of the examples given, it makes you think that we have become pretty lazy in todays society. Its hard to think of what our country would be like today without all of these advances and what the main ways of communication would be. I know even if one of my friends is right across the street or somewhere near by I would pick up the phone and call them before getting up and walking over. I think the technology we have makes everything much easier and go a lot faster. We may not be as advacned as some countries but overall I think we have plenty of technology to use for now.

I think blogging is an easier way of getting your point across. For myself it’s more difficult to speak off the top of my head. Blogging gives you more time to think about what you are going to say. Reading the bolgs is also helpful because it helps in understanding what other people have to say and the points they are trying to make. Blogging may take a little more time then just speaking but in the end it is an overall better tool for discussion.