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POST 3 : INDIVIDUAL WORK ON "THE IDEA OF PROGRESS"

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New Technology Helping Give Some The Ability To Walk : Despite all the criticisms that we can find and argue about new technologies, being in constant technological advances enable lots of life-changing inventions. Personally, I couldn't agree more with the fact that new technologies have the capacity to help some people. The one I chose illustrate for me the major advanced of these devices, and is called : Exoskeleton . I know the name can be a little bit scary but the goals of this machine are promising. In fact, this is a wearable robot, a kind of suit which permit and encourage people with serious issues to re-learn to walk. Many people are in wheelchair due to an accident and have lost their ability to move. As well as others who are born with palsy. These men, women or even children are stuck in a life that they haven't really chosen. On top of that, it isn't possible to them to do something without someone else. However, thanks to the help of exoskeleton, pe...

POST 2 : LOOK UP/ LOOK DOWN

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"LOOK UP" VIDEO :  - What I understood is that the "look up" video is mostly about cell phones, and spending our time on the Net or social networks... Gary, the person who is talking, has more or less a negative vision of new technologies. For me, the video is divided in three parts : First, Online friends , then children who have been growing up with electronics devices and finally he speaks out about love and how finding our "soulmate"/ lover.  In the first part, he tells us, we can have plenty of friends on social medias but those "friends" have never seen us for real, listening to the sound of our voice or looking us right in the eyes. For him, this is only a illusion that we create, a self-interest... He even compares Internet as a world with informations sold by rich people who don't care about consequences... He says, we should be there for our friends and they will do the same for us, that we should (re)learn to coexist. F...

POST 1 : INTERNET ANONYMOUS

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2. DESCRIPTION / MEANING / PURPOSE : a) The cartoon might take place at an office. We can see two people there, two men, one's using a desktop computer and the other is just staring at him next to the desk. One of them seems pretty enthusiastic about what he is doing while the ginger man looks most annoying or maybe bored by the situation. b) In my opinion, the cartoonist wants to show us a concept fashionable which represent clearly our century and our generation. Internet plays a huge role in our life and it's very commun to talk/chat with someone else, friends or family by using internet, social networks or whatever. His goal is to demonstrate that sometimes we communicate mostly by internet while we should probably do it in real life, and also that we live more in a "virtual" world, instead of living in the real world. 3. IMPACT/ VIEWPOINT / BRANCHING OUT : a) Honestly, I think it's kinda representative of today's world. That it's true that we...