Thursday, September 30, 2010

scatter ideas of my reseach paper--Portraying Minds (not finished)

Temple Grandin is a well-known professor of Animal Science at Colorado State University with autism. She is a great example of people who have mental illness but have certain talent at the same time. Her story is a proof that people don't have to have emotional connections to be successful. According to the article of "An Anthropologist On Mars, I learned that how she discovered and developed her talent and what she has created to help animal die peacefully.

Thursday, September 23, 2010

some thoughts about "Is Google Making Us Stupid?"

Before I read the article, I started to realize that how internet technologies play a huge role in our daily life. Two things have affected my perceptions. First of all, I changed my cell phone plan with monthly text message service. When I spreaded the news to all my friends, unbelievably, my cell phone just keeps ringing to notify me that I get a message every a few minutes. I am no longer a girl who hates texting all the time any more. The other thing is about schoolwork, I just can not believe people rely on the internet techonologies so much. Basiclly, people do everything with it. Sometimes, I ask myself that what if all the computers are attacked by hackers or virus all over the world, are people going to be panic all the time? or suddenly feel that they don't know how to find a book in the library mannually, or how to seek a specific location by looking at a paper map except google it online?Maybe they will feel it is the end of the world.