Comp 380 unit 3 project: a Review

Overall, I think that this project enables us to be able to collect all the thoughts and muses of the past weeks together into one coherent unit as we strive to achieve greater understanding of the issues that surround our usage of the internet. Through Boyd, Carr, Coleman, Wojack, Oravec, Turkle and Shirkey, we are better able to understand the dangers and the potential of the internet age as we seek to achieve the cognitive surplus that will allow us to foster international harmony. The internet isn't just one static thing, as these people show, but it's a dynamic thing, also changing in flux and eventually there will be a new crop of investigators that will report on the changing landscape. The words of these authors are relevant today, but new technology will pose newer problems that will undoubtfully become essential for tomorrow. We should be careful, as Carr said, but we should also push forward according to Boyd. It is in our hands, after all an computer is only as good as it's human operator.