The was very intrigued by how diverse, yet all involving new technology the topics on the website mashable.com were. The device I chose to write about it is the ipad. The first article was about how the ipad, among many other things, advances the way in which people can play games. The example they used was a game called "plants vs. zombies". They have created up to 11 contact points for the game. The article even mentions how it could be good for kids who just cant wait their turn to play; the kids can just play together. While I think the advances in gaming on the ipad are virtually harmless, it does raise some questions for me. The first is with new technologies such as this and the wii, how long is it before we are actually just sitting with a helmet on and are actually in the game itself. Professor Greenberg has mentioned they have already created these, but how long will it be before it is on every kids Christmas list? That also brings me to the question of, does that almost make games pointless? If they are designed to be so real, why cant you just go do them outside? An example of this like on the Wii, if people are having such a good time bowling with their friends, why don't they just go bowling? I have some answers for this such as cost, and its easily accessible...so I think where its as right now is okay, but as it progresses it could just be getting ridiculous.
The second article I read was about a man who purchased an ipad and later on was attacked outside of the mall. The thief removed so much of the mans skin from his pinkie finger that it had to be amputated. This I think is an example of things we have spoken about in class about how technology is taking over. I realize that theft has always been an issue because some people are just menaces to society, but with the higher cost and more intrigue in these kinds of products than anything else the rate at which they are being stolen is very high. I can remember back to when I was in high school when I got a new pair of headphones for my birthday to replace the classic white ipod headphones, because at the time a lot of ipod were just getting ripped out of pockets and jackets and the familiar headphones were a huge target to thieves. There is no doubt in my mind that the newer and more advanced products look, the more susceptible they are to being stolen.

A direct comparison between Vannevar Bush's "As we may think" and Kevin Kelly's "The next 5,000 days of the Internet", is the references to the "machine". Bush refers to it as a "piece of furniture" which stores a collection of scattered knowledge within it. Kelly's vision of the machine, while similar to Bush's is a little more specific considering it was discussed in a time when the technology they referred to has already been invented. Kelly's reference to the machine is the most perfect machine to ever be made, constructed through the consumers; the users of technology through cell phones, computers and any other handheld devices.
Regardless of their depth in explanation, both men's ideas about this machine are very similar. The way that I interpreted the idea is that basically even though as humans we are doing exceptionally well keeping up with all the new technologies, it is eventually going to catch up with us unless we have one solid center to bring everything together so we can keep it under control and managable. An example of this, on a very small scale, it is the equivalent of having widgets on our webpages, so that all the sites we constantly visit can all be organized in one little spot.
I honestly did not see any noteable differences between the two ideas. The only point I think is worth mentioning is that Bush's ideas were predictions (which ultimatly had truth) and Kelly's ideas were based on facts from the previous 5,000 days. I think they were both right and it is only a matter of time before we create new forms of technology to put into the machine.