Surrogate Questions

1. What are the advantages/disadvantages of a surrogate?

-The advantages of having a surrogate would be crime rates dropping, good looks and not nearly as many health problems if any.

-The disadvantages would be loosing certain feelings of accomplishment or difference that you would have walking around in your own body such as working out to achieve great abs or enjoying your time with someone  as you and not as some robot.

2. Would you want to try a surrogate? Why or why not?

-The only reason I would try a surrogate is to do things I wouldn't normally do that might be dangerous but then again i wouldn't want to because the sense of accomplishment for that act is gone because it isn't really you that is trying the stunt its your robot body.

3. In the film, it says that 98 percent of the population uses surrogates. Why would society be so eager to be someone else--someone beautiful and perfect? What does this say about our society?

-The majority of our society will do anything to look and feel perfect just look at lip injections and random procedures such as that. Those same people will also spend however much to make it happen and don't care if it takes away other feelings such as love or accomplishments because they don't care much about those feelings. This makes our society look emotionless and in my eyes a little careless.

4. In the film the company VSI's company slogan is: "Life... Only Better." If you experience something via a surrogate--- is it real? Is the experience better?

-I would not consider the experience real at all and I feel like there wouldn't even be an experience since you know your not in danger of getting hurt you might not feel the same feeling of excitement or get scared at all.   

The Loss of The Real

The Loss of the Real is an article that explains how technology as twisted our ability to sence what is real or not. It explains the specific type of mechanical animals that you would see at Disney Land and how they are nothing like real animals you would see in the wild or even at a zoo. The author then goes on to explain the "artificial Crocodile Effect" this effect gives an animal such as a bird or an elephant emotions just like a human. Disney uses this effect to attract children and lead them to believe that animals are able to communicate and interact with humans.

Quotes

1. "artificial crocodile effect, makes the fake seem more compelling"

- I have grown up watching disney movies and to this day think they are one of the greatest things to ever happen. This artificial crocodile effect although is true i dont think it harms anyone.

2. "Now they just want to talk online. it used to be that things weren't so artificial". 

-Personaly I dont talk online at all but i dont connect being artificial and talking online to a friend at all i dont understand why they are being put together.

Questions to the Auther

1. Did you watch any Disney movies or go to Disney Land as a child?

2. Would you bring your child to Disney Land or let them watch a Disney movie knowing about the "artificial crocodile effect"?

Summary of "Society is Dead, We Have Retreated into the iWorld"

After admitting that Andrew Sullivan the author of "Society Is Dead, We Have Retreated into the iWorld" uses an ipod he explians the problem with them and society. He says that our decisions about people should not be chosen randomely on line bu in person by geting to know the people around you. This is ruined due to ipods because everyone would rather be left alone with their music.

Quotes

1. "Human beings have never lived like this before."

-I chose this quote because i feel that it doesnt matter at all that we havnt lived like this we are humans and are changing constantly. Its like saying we had never lived the same now as we did before automobiles.

2. "You get your news from your favorite blogs, the ones that wont challenge your view of the world."

-I believe that every News station out their is bias and that you will be able to find a blog that just simply tells you what happened without making you think on one side.

Questions

-What do you think about colleges constantly using the internet to get information to students?

-Do you think the news stations have no bias opinons about everything that gets covered?

No Music for Twenty Four Hours

So a couple of days ago I was assigned to go twenty four hours with either no texting no facebook or no listening to music. Since I don’t text much or go on facebook I decided to challenge myself by putting the ipod away for a day. It was not very hard and actually kind of peaceful. My life doesn’t necessarily revolve around electronics although I do use them a lot especially my ipod. Not only did I recently stumble upon a great artist and one of my favorite’s rite now named Ed Sheeran but I also got brand new beats by dre headphones so the 24 hours were actually pretty difficult because of the urge of wanting to discover more great music. This experience definitely opened my eyes to how involved in the music world I actually am and how often I’m trying to find new artists that haven’t hit the scene yet. The hardest part of this assignment was driving back and forth to school and all around the valley with no music what so ever. This act could possibly drive someone actually insane. Thankfully I’m ok and hopefully didn’t miss any good new songs on kroq or Jack fm. Out of all of my choices for this project this was definitely the hardest because I could live the rest of my life without if not just facebook than the entire internet. I could also live on without texting but It does come in handy every once in a wile.

Jacob Anderson is a first year student at California State University of Northridge. Unsure what exactly to study he is undeclaired at the moment. On his journey through college he must complete various projects and tests. His most recent project concerns the internet and its impact on society.