Monday, March 7, 2016

3.During this TED presentation Eli starts off by saying how he, like the majority of the world thought that the invention of the internet was meant for connection and surely would be beneficial for democracy and society as a whole. He began to realize that there was an invisible shift that had taken place and this shift could potentially cause a lot of problems. Through his example when two separate men Google the same thing and got different results he was able to show that the internet has begun to show us what it thinks we want to see, but not necessarily what we need to. He goes on to say that there’s this sort of filter bubble that determines what gets in and what is filtered out depending on who we are and what we want to see.

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  1. I think the invention of the internet is still a great means of connecting people and is still beneficial for society. And in the example of how two separate men can search for the same thing and get different results can be both good and bad. In it sense it is more meaningful results catered towards the individual. So it is more likely that the individual would be interested in the results displayed, but at the same time it has a polarizing effect where the results might eventually turn to their respective polarized extremes.

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  2. I think the invention of the internet is still a great means of connecting people and is still beneficial for society. And in the example of how two separate men can search for the same thing and get different results can be both good and bad. In it sense it is more meaningful results catered towards the individual. So it is more likely that the individual would be interested in the results displayed, but at the same time it has a polarizing effect where the results might eventually turn to their respective polarized extremes.

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