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Do We Control the Machines? (Or Do the Machines Control Us?)

10/16/2018

76 Comments

 
Respond to the following question, our central question for the unit, and provide specific examples to support your assertion.

TO WHAT EXTENT IS TECHNOLOGY TODAY FOSTERING INTELLIGENCE OR IGNORANCE?
76 Comments
Aidan Adams
10/16/2018 01:14:21 pm

Ignorance. This is because people don’t use technology to it’s true potential and spend all day looking up facts and stuff. Also technology is beginning to take more and more human jobs which are needed to create intelligence and paychecks for people.

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Preston
10/16/2018 01:16:17 pm

Very true statement.

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Griffin Mylan
10/16/2018 01:17:53 pm

I can agree with you on that, chief.

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Preston
10/16/2018 01:15:40 pm

It’s teaches us plenty of things we know and important life info. But since we usually don’t use it for that, we use it for our entertainment. Since are glued to technology for this, it teaches us to ignore everything outside of it.

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Griffin Mylan
10/16/2018 01:18:28 pm

Great statement, Preston. Nice job.

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Lani Belgarde
10/16/2018 01:18:54 pm

Very true

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Griffin Mylan
10/16/2018 01:17:16 pm

I believe that certain technology is more destructive to our brains than others. Cellphones, for example, distract us with games and social media. I think that it’s not technology that’s bad but it’s the way that we use it. If we use it wisely than we can be intelligent instead of ignorant.

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Preston
10/16/2018 01:18:13 pm

It is true that we don’t use technology for its true potential.

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Johnny
10/16/2018 01:19:40 pm

I think that technology can help us a lot but we don’t use it until we have to most of the time. We know we have all the knowledge in the world so we just trust it to be there when we need it. We don’t use now to prepare us for later because we believe we don’t truly have to.

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Blazen Burgess
10/16/2018 01:19:52 pm

You make a very good point.

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Aidan Adams
10/16/2018 01:19:52 pm

Yessir

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Treygan
10/16/2018 01:21:49 pm

This is a very good way to look at it.

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Caden Caywood
10/16/2018 01:22:39 pm

Highly intelligent response.

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Sammy H.
10/16/2018 01:22:46 pm

That’s true, it’s the way we use it.

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Eli
10/16/2018 01:17:35 pm

Machines can’t control us but we can choose to let them take over are life. They hold lots of intelligence. Which makes us more ignorant.

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Dillon
10/16/2018 01:19:00 pm

I agree. Many people let machines control them.

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Emma Dahle
10/16/2018 01:19:45 pm

That is true, that it can turn us ignorant.

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Avery
10/16/2018 01:21:36 pm

I agree

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Dillon
10/16/2018 01:18:07 pm

Machines don’t control us but we can chose to let them sometimes. Technology fosters both intelligence and ignorance depending on what you use it for. In today’s world it fosters ignorance more than intelligence.

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Eli
10/16/2018 01:18:34 pm

I like how you look at how it can do both.

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Sam
10/16/2018 01:19:58 pm

This is smart of you to say.

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Sammy H.
10/16/2018 01:18:13 pm

It is going both ways it’s teaching us information. The problem is many things are portrayed as false truths. It still holds great things but there’s also so much people don’t understand about today’s technology.

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Emma Dahle
10/16/2018 01:21:16 pm

I love how you put the information because it is so true.

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Jordan
10/16/2018 01:21:56 pm

I agree.

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Emma Dahle
10/16/2018 01:18:40 pm

Technology is very powerful today. It has a lot of say in people’s life’s nowadays. It teaches us a lot but depending on how you use it. It can be used as intelligence.

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Ariana
10/16/2018 01:19:27 pm

I agree and like your statement.

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Aidan Adams
10/16/2018 01:20:24 pm

Technology good

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Avery
10/16/2018 01:22:25 pm

I agree!

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Jordan
10/16/2018 01:22:46 pm

Sometimes it can be too powerful

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Sam
10/16/2018 01:18:40 pm

Technology is fostering more towards our ignorance when it comes to social media and the internet because it is causing us to become lazy and reliant on other people’s knowledge.

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Ariana
10/16/2018 01:19:58 pm

I agree, it is making us lazy.

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Will
10/16/2018 01:25:32 pm

Great comment, I like your thinking!

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Taylee Matthews
10/16/2018 01:26:42 pm

It does make us lazy

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Blazen Burgess
10/16/2018 01:18:48 pm

Technology makes us more ignorant. It makes it so that more people can have a say but it also makes us more lazy and more vulnerable. Overall I’d say that most people are becoming more ignorant because of technology than intelligent.

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Caden Caywood
10/16/2018 01:21:49 pm

Highly intelligent response

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Johnny
10/16/2018 01:22:54 pm

We are lazy

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Will
10/16/2018 01:23:49 pm

Nice thinking blazen I totally agree!

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Ariana
10/16/2018 01:18:54 pm

I think the internet is making us dumb. We use it to get in arguments and petty much for useless stuff. I think that if we put down our phones we might learn something new or raise our IQs.

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Sam
10/16/2018 01:20:44 pm

That’s true. I could definitely use a higher IQ

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Taylee Matthews
10/16/2018 01:26:20 pm

Agree Ariana

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Avery
10/16/2018 01:19:08 pm

The internet can help us but on the other end it can give us false information. I think that the internet is only useful to an extent. If you have good intentions you’ll get a good result.

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Eli
10/16/2018 01:20:04 pm

I like how you see that it depends on the user.

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Chayla Slavin
10/17/2018 10:29:13 am

Yes, technology can definitely be used in better ways than it it.

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Caden Caywood
10/16/2018 01:19:17 pm

Technology today is creating more ignorance than anything. We don’t use it to it’s full potential and never really increase society’s intelligence as a whole with it. We are more worried about social things through it.

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Dillon
10/16/2018 01:20:57 pm

I agree. Technology could be used in a much better way than it usually is.

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Aidan Adams
10/16/2018 01:21:29 pm

Technology bad

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Blazen Burgess
10/16/2018 01:21:55 pm

You’re correct we don’t use it to it’s full potential.

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Johnny
10/16/2018 01:22:02 pm

We do use it for more ignorant things than intelligent don’t we

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Taija
12/17/2018 01:46:37 pm

That’s true there are much better ways we could be using technology

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Tierryn
10/16/2018 01:20:16 pm

Technology can make us more intelligent but we can also just ignore what we don’t want to know. We can be ignorant easier using technology than in real life.

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Treygan
10/16/2018 01:20:35 pm

I think it is doing both for us because it is helping us learn and we have to ability to look stuff up very quick and do online schooling or get help on assignments but it is also causing people to ignore teachers or friends when they are on their phones or iPad playing games or on social media.

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Jordan
10/16/2018 01:20:57 pm

Some technology is more destructive than others. We just use it too much for social media instead of using it for better things. If we were to use it for more important things we could be less ignorant and more intelligent.

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Sammy H.
10/16/2018 01:24:30 pm

I agree we underestimate its power.

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Tierryn
10/16/2018 01:25:10 pm

Great response.

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Miriam
10/16/2018 01:21:07 pm

Technology today gives intelligence to our society more than our ancestors could have ever imagined but it is also ruins our brains is we use it for the wrong reasons.

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Treygan
10/16/2018 01:24:19 pm

I agree sometimes it’s used wrongly

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Caden Caywood
10/16/2018 01:24:29 pm

Lounges

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Tierryn
10/16/2018 01:25:37 pm

Love your input👍🏼

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Brooke
10/17/2018 01:20:16 pm

I agree we learn more now than from our ancestors but it also hurts the brain

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Johnny
10/16/2018 01:21:17 pm

I think that technology can help us a lot but we don’t use it until we have to most of the time. We know we have all the knowledge in the world so we just trust it to be there when we need it. We don’t use now to prepare us for later because we believe we don’t truly have to.

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Chayla Slavin
10/17/2018 10:28:24 am

I agree that technology can be used to help us.

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Will
10/16/2018 01:21:49 pm

It is fostering intelligence for the most part. There are new technological advances everyday but with that come some negative things too. With the phones and computers we are able to run our life without even moving. This is why I think for the most part technology is moving in a positive direction.

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Caden Caywood
10/16/2018 01:25:13 pm

Highly intelligent response!

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Miriam
10/16/2018 01:30:09 pm

That is a different perspective

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Taija
12/17/2018 01:47:12 pm

Yes there are negatives that come with these types of things.

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Taylee Matthews
10/16/2018 01:25:19 pm

Technology can help us in so many ways but it’s not always right and makes us more ignorant

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Miriam
10/16/2018 01:28:43 pm

So true

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Brooke
10/17/2018 01:19:13 pm

I agree we use it all the time just not for good things too

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Jaicei
10/16/2018 01:26:50 pm

Ignorance because people ignore the important knowledgeable things about the internet and use it for less useful things.

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Taija
10/16/2018 01:26:53 pm

Technology can help us a lot but it is fostering intelligence some of the time.

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Chayla Slavin
10/17/2018 10:27:28 am

Technology provides us with information and also promotes our ignorance. Microscopes are an example of technology being used in a productive way. Things like cell phones are very often used not to learn about things that are going on in our world, but to distract people from it.

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Faith
10/18/2018 01:24:23 pm

I like this

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Brooke
10/17/2018 01:15:23 pm

Technology helps us a lot right now, our society has changed so much from it. It’s a good change but a bad one also because we have the technoloy for medicine and more stuff, but it also makes us ignorant and we take advantage of it.

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Faith
10/18/2018 01:24:05 pm

I agree completely

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Faith
10/18/2018 01:23:39 pm

Technology give us intelligence but it also keeps us from the truth. We can hide the truth easily on tech.

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Taija
12/17/2018 01:48:54 pm

Technology can make life a lot easier. With all these pros there are going to me cons. I think we could find better ways to use it.

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