I’m not here as tech support, but there’s a reason almost every Generation Z participant can do the job of a Baby-Boomers computer engineer: Technology has changed the way we think. Now, I don’t mean to say we each have wires in our brains controlling our thumbs as they type 500 word texts at hyper speed, but the way we think and do things has been forced to evolve as a consequence of the electronic world. We have to be able to think in ways computers can’t. There’s more to it than just the simplicity but I’ve figured out three main things that separate our thinking from other generations and the computers that replace them.
Tag: computers
Exclusive: John McAfee Wanted for Murder (Updated)
Antivirus pioneer John McAfee is on the run from murder charges, Belize police say.
Too much money and time on your hands? – Ed.
Can Owning A Cat Void Your HP Warranty? – The Consumerist
[If] there’s fur inside the computer, causing HP to declare his computer a “biological hazard” and send it back un-repaired.
The DIY Terminator: Private Robot Armies And The Algorithm-Run Future Of War | Fast Company
“Drones are essentially flying–and sometimes armed–computers,” the Brookings Institution noted in a paper published last month. They’re robots who follow the curve of Moore’s Law rather than the Pentagon’s budgets, rapidly evolving in performance since the Predator’s 2002 debut while falling in price to the point where Make magazine recently carried instructions on how to launch your own satellite for $8,000.
LulzSec, Sony, And The Rise Of A New Breed of Hacker | Huffington Post
In a press statement released last week, the group wrote, “We recently broke into SonyPictures.com and compromised over 1,000,000 users’ personal information, including passwords, email addresses, home addresses, dates of birth, and all Sony opt-in data associated with their accounts.” LulzSec also claimed to have gotten hold of “3.5 million ‘music coupons,'” which the group then invited the public to “plunder.”
Their motivation, it seemed, was something other than monetary gain. But what? An introduction on their website offers a clue: “We have now taken it upon ourselves to spread fun, fun, fun… ”
The State of the Internet | Fast Company
For example, there are about 740 million Internet users in Asia alone; Facebook serves 6 million page views per minute, requiring 30,000 servers; and there are 148,000 new zombie computers created each day by hackers using botnets:
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