Technology has been around since the dawn of time. Not just tablets, phones, computers or television, but any device that has helped to facilitate the processes of daily life. A rock to bash things with, a stick to stir things with, a knife to kill or cut with, or even the wheel! But for most people, the term "technology" is associated with the recent wealth of digital media and cyber tools that have now proliferated across the planet into all corners of the world, and more specifically, the Internet and social media.

“The Internet has radically changed nearly every level of human experience in an incredibly short amount of time,” says Lee Siegel, author of Against the Machine: Being Human in the Age of the Electronic Mob.
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Why just WEAR your computer, when you can BE your computer? Why tote a laptop around? You need a computer that pops up on your hand!

Microsoft’s video-game controller KINECT registers a user’s intentions from his gestures to give you what you want, when you want it–no more searching for wifi. For instance, Someone in a shopping mall could hold up his hand and see a map appear on it instantly. The image would be locked in place when he sticks out his thumb.
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Google is designing Google Glass wearable computing specs, and the Olympus camera company has designed a wearable computing device contains a display that resides directly above the right eye of the wearer. Unlike the Google device, the Olympus device connects directly to the user’s smartphone.

We’re all getting used to seeing people walking down the street who appear to be talking to themselves because they are using a small cell phone microphone. Now we’ll see people who seem to be in a sort of a daze, as one eye is focused on their email. Will there be a wave of pedestrian accidents?
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Computers can do more than identify psychopaths–they can also give us a clue about who wrote the Bible.

The books of the Bible–both the Old Testament (or Torah) and the New Testament–were written by unknown authors. They are "named," but scholars doubt that these are their actual names so, except for the letters in the New Testament that were penned by Paul, the Bible was written by Anonymous. But a new computer program may be able to identify them.
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