Technology

(Ennis-O'Connor) Around 45% of the world’s population uses social media, totaling an average of 2 hours and 23 minutes a day per person (Ennis-O'Connor). Little did those people know, companies running these social media pages program their pages in ways that can be harmful. By taking and using data you posted when you sign up, make a post, send a picture, and much more. Many people know that data is looked at in order to show relevant advertisements. But do they really know how the company is collecting their data? Or why the company really wants it? Data is taken from social media accounts for many reasons: It can be sold to companies for advertising, profile building, and more in order to create revenue, it can also learn from the data, and sell specific things to specific people (Tufekci).  You may think that you can easily see these uses of “ad tracking” or other forms of data collection, as they are much easier to see. You look at a pair of shoes you woul...

Over the past hundred years, jobs have slowly switched roles from being solely run by people, to completely taken over by technology. Not only in places where you might expect, such as factories, and production lines, but also jobs such as farming, transportation methods, and even jobs at government agencies such as NASA. In the past, industrialization was praised. And rightfully so, it made lives easier, taking away the hard manual labor required to create mainstream items. However, now technology is reaching the point in which computers can reach a point of higher efficiency in jobs that require huge calculations. According to an article released by Forbes, “NASA used to employ human computers to calculate flight trajectories that helped get our spaceships into the sky. Today the aggregate computing power of human computing from that era is dwarfed by the device sitting in your pocket” Artificial Intelligence, also known as “AI” plays a large role in this massive job displacement....