Many athletes across the country ask the question, “what does it take to be the best?” They’ll ask their coaches, parents, teammates, and even themselves, hoping for some sort of hidden secret. Similarly, coaches ask themselves how they can produce a winning team, a team of champions. The answer most coaches and players come up with is talent and skill. They feel that the team with the most talented kids that have the most skills for their sport will be the best. However they overlook a very important aspect of sports. The mental portion. How much can one rely on their talents if they do not have the confidence to back them up.

The truth is, many people have talent at the sport they participate in. Thier natural talent and hard work makes them average, those but those who exceed, simply believe. Individuals who believe in themselves and have superior confidence to their oponents typically play better. Many people who lack confidence will “choke” or crack under the pressure of the situation. So once an athlete has figured out that having confidence will take them to the next level, the question becomes, “how can I improve my confidence?” The answer is simply preparation and positive thinking. When a player feels prepared for their competition, they feel more confident about how they will do.

Preparation is the easy part, it simply takes working hard and going to practice. The real trick is positive thinking. There are a few tricks to positive thinking that will make it easier to transfer bad energy to good. One of these tricks is simply relaxation. Relaxing the mind can calm nerves and allow you to focus on your tasks. Along with relaxation, setting goals is essential to success. Athletes need to set their goals high and fight to acheive them. These two tricks alone however will not work to increase your confidence. The important trick to positive thinking, is simply imagery. If an athlete pictures themselves succeeding and achieving their goals, they will increase their positive thinking drastically. The self doubt and negative thinking will be replaced with ambition and self confidence. However, negative thinking is unfortunately impossible to avoid. It’s only natural to feel nerves and doubt yourself. Even the best athletes have their moments of doubt. Coaches who focus on positive thinking tell their players to simply drown out the negative thoughts, but it isnt that easy.

To increase positive thinking, it can be helpful to acknowledge your doubtful thoughts. Simply allowing your negative thoughts such as,”I’m not good enough,” to be present for a brief moment is okay, it’s natural. Acknowledge the thought and replace it with good thoughts. Reviewing set goals, or looking back on previous preparation can help release the negative energy.

Having each individual on a team practice positive thinking will not only help the player, but the team as well. It is proven that a team with good chemistry plays better and is more likely to win. Positive thinking will encourage a team to come together. When a goal is established, it allows the team to be one in order to achieve their goals. If coaches promote positive thinking to produce talented AND confident players, their success rate will become amazingly better. Each player would be able to play to their potential, the team chemistry would be better, and all would be driven to achieve their goals.

Looking toward the future, positive thinking will become a large part of high school sports. Not only will there be a focus on confidence building, but there will be practices set aside to just focus on improving positive thinking, similar to film watching. New methods to increase athletes confidence along with different types of prep talks to get players as mentally prepared as they are physically will become essential to any team who wants to compete. Positive thinking will become the most important aspect to success in sports.

Complex entertainment started with Shakespeare. His plays analyzed human qualities and feelings through comedy, irony, and drama. Technology has changed the face of social entertainment at a rapid rate in the twenty first century; people are not filing into the Globe Theater like they used to. People are now focused on special effects instead of basic human interaction. In the future, technology’s effect on entertainment will diminish human’s ability to relate to one another by removing the want for human interaction, limiting human’s social skills, and forcing humans to forget where entertainment started with comedy, irony, and drama. The entertainment industry will change the way people interact forever.

If Entertainment stays on the same track it is on now people will no longer be interested in human interaction.  Four out of the top five highest grossed movies are all based on special effects (Avatar, Harry Potter, Lord of the Rings, and Transformers). The only one of the top five that had barely any special effects was Titanic, which was filmed in 1997. People are not interested in watching relationships between humans; they want to see flashing lights and scenes they have never seen before. This is also true in the video game world. A popular game Grand Theft Auto, is a single player shooter where there is no need for human interaction.  There are also video games like Fable and World of War Craft where one can interact with an entire virtual world that they create. Human’s will no longer need human interaction because they have a world of their own constructed in a virtual utopia that consist special effects.

When people stop seeing human interaction in the movies, and begin to build alternate universes in games there is only one thing left to happen: the diminishment of social skills. People will forget how to react when someone catches them off guard because in the movies everything always works out, and in the games they can always restart. Technology in the world of entertainment is putting an end to social skills. People are less social now then 50 years ago because there are fewer reasons to go out and interact with someone.

Humans will forget the basic components of what once was entertainment (comedy, irony, and drama) because technology have made them obsolete. Movies and Games with technology make more money than films and games without technology. People want to see what they have never seen before. All humans think they understand comedy, irony, and drama so they want a new challenge. People want to understand special effects now, which is not a human interaction. Plays are out dated and visual effects are in. If this progression continues what humans ones knew as entertainment will be and outdated waste of energy of how people used to act.

People are concentrating on special effects instead of human interaction. Humans will soon see technology’s effect on entertainment. Technology will hurt human’s ability to relate to one another by removing the want for human interaction, limiting human’s social skills, and forcing humans to forget comedy, irony, and drama. Technology pushed humans down a steep hill and all human interaction is pummeled on the course down the hill.

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An addiction to mobile devices seems to be the new trend. Many people feel as if a part of their life is missing when they don’t have their cell phone with them. They tend to feel high levels of anxiety, stress and insecurity.  Think of how you react when you don’t know where your cell phone is and then tell me you do not have some sort of an addiction of your own.

More specifically, if you have a smart phone, I am sure you are even more addicted. One of the first things many of us do in the morning is check our social networks. If we are lying in bed or at class, we must check to see if anything new has happened since yesterday. Also thanks to smart phones, we have all the information in the palm of our hands. We can google everything and discover the answer in less than a minute.

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As you see above, the first cell phone created is worlds apart from the 4G network’s lastest and greatest, IPhone. 1981 and 2011 are not even comparable.  The only thing they have in common is that they are both wireless telephones.  Many things have changed over the years to make the device more useful to its’ consumers. We are able to play games, buy clothes, read the news, even monitor our sleeping pattern; you name it, it can do it. One of the most useful inventions was developed about 20 years ago for cell phones. The skill we call text messaging.  It gave us the ability to communicate quickly and briefly with other people without having to call them. They could reply whenever they wanted to as well. Within the past couple years, an app called talk to text was created. People had the power to send text messages without having to type them. Along with this, the text’ndrive app was also created.  With such high accident rates because of texting and driving, I applaud the person who tried to create something to help resolve this problem although I don’t think it is the correct solution.

The more addicting the cell phone becomes, the harder it is to put it down. Texting while driving is about 6 times more likely to result in an accident than driving while intoxicated. It has become illegal in around 30 states in the US. Instead of consistently getting preached to in drivers ed about drinking and driving, texting and driving is now more of the concern; crazy huh? We as humans have a hard time pausing our conversation with someone while we are behind the wheel. It isn’t necessarily that we are uneducated about the situation; we just don’t think we will ever be the person who is in an accident because of texting. We think, “We are being the careful ones.” There is always some sort of new device being created and I think it is time for one to lower this accident rate.

With the thought in mind of eliminating this problem, the future will discover a solution. This is a new device that is linked to your cell phone and allows you to talk to people without doing anything at all.  It is a sensor-mounted headset worn by the user and makes it possible for texting to happen by thought power only. The headset works by using brain-machine interface technology to examine your brain waves. It then translates them into digital signals as a form of electronic telepathy. The words would then be repeated to you and sent to the person. They are also able to appear on your lenses if you would like them to. This device also has the capability to solo send and receive messages completely hands free. All you have to do is talk to it. It will tell you when you receive a message, who it’s from and also what the person sent you.  Likewise, it works the same way when sending a message. You say the name and what you would like sent and kaboom. The lenses automatically hook up with a small on and off button located just underneath on the earpiece.  There is no set date on when this product is being released yet but it is going to be a must have item! To preorder the Lenses 5000, call 1-800-LEN5000

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Here is a preview of the preliminary versions of texting by thought power. Far from what we expect it to be in the future.

Are we doing enough? Is there enough attention being put forth? Is there to much talk and little action taking place? These are some of the questions many people are asking today about the current situation of global warming. Global warming is the increase in the earth’s average atmospheric temperature that causes corresponding changes in climate and may result from the greenhouse effect. Our worlds atmosphere is currently deteriorating due to us humans. Air pollution and the waste of energy that is in our atmosphere is why we have this problem of global warming.If we continue to pollute the air and waste our energy sources, the carbon dioxide will take over our atmosphere. Although Global Warming is definitely upon us, it is a difficult situation to handle. Several world leaders are not to sure how to approach this on going problem. Although they continue to educate their nations, we have seen little improvements in our atmosphere. For example in 2010, carbon admissions jumped about five point nine percent due to the waste of excess energy. The excess waste of our very important energy sources will continue to rise if we don’t take a stand! We need to stop wasting our precious energy!

I believe one of the main problems of global warming is that people are being very stubborn. Many feel that the atmosphere will be fine for decades to come. They don’t realize how important it is to save energy and stop the air pollution now! Naturally as humans we don’t always like dealing with things until it is right there in front of us. At this point in the case of global warming when it really starts to take a toal and people begin to notice, thats when it’s to late. By the time global warming plays a huge impact on our daily life, it will be impossible to stop it. Global warming has begun to affect our world in several different places. Some examples are Sudan And Bangladesh who have really seen the full force of the climate change so far. These two regions have seen frequent flooding that has wiped out homes and also killed crops. Another example of an area that has been greatly affected by global warming has been the caribbean. The increasing temperatures of the caribbean’s ocean waters has increased the velocity of the hurricanes. The hurricanes have been destroying many beach resorts and small towns. If global warming continues to occur at such a rapid pace then many of us will see the horrific power of it in the future. We need to step up as a whole and take control of the situation before it gets to far. Little steps will go a long way for the future.

Heres a link about the affects of global warming

This particular youtube video shows pictures of the effects of global warming. These horrible events will continue to occur more often if our world leaders don’t make changes. I believe they should meet and work together so that our grandchildren will have better lives.

Being a member of a graduating class, all of us are familiar with college application process and maybe have already applied to few out of huge variety of the schools out there. However, being familiar with the process means being aware of everything, even the downfalls that have arisen on the horizon. How many times have you heard from your college counselor or parents that it was much easier to get into top colleges 30-40 years ago? How many times have you seen news on the TV and internet tell us that acceptance rates of Ivy League universities hit an all-time low? The truth is that the acceptance rates for majority of colleges are dropping and dropping more with each year. At a glance there is nothing we can do about it unless we figure out the reasons for such decline. So what awaits future applicants and how it can be prevented? Let’s find out.

The Formula

As we know the acceptance percentage is calculated simply by dividing the number of applicants that were granted admission by the number of applicants that applied to the certain university in total. Therefore the only way that an acceptance rate of university can increase over the years is either by the increase of total number of applicants (because usually size of freshmen class remains the same). University of Chicago is a perfect example of large increase in the number of applicants and as a result a significant drop of acceptance rates just over 5 year span. Let’s see how such growth relates to the tendencies that we see in the world nowadays.

Demographic Growth

On the October 31st, 2011 the population of the Earth hit the enormous number of 7 billion people and the growth rates won’t are not even thinking to slow down. According to Population Reference Bureau the population of United States can reach 438 million by 2050, which basically means that in the nearest future there would be a even higher demand for the college education that it is now. With the growth of total population of the country the number of people seeking for a college degree will also increase bringing the acceptance rates even lower. Some of the countries like India are already experiencing similar problems in the education sector. Being the second most populated nation in the world India has on of the most fast-growing network of universities in different areas of study such as Technology, Management,  Science Education and others. However, even such effective measures can’t handle the exponential growth of the population. Just to mention in 2011, Indian Institutes of Technology (the whole network) received 485,000 applications for only 9,618 seats in the freshmen class. That’s an acceptance rate of 1,9%. Looking at such numbers we should understand that situation in the United States’ education sector can be much worse but may be it’s just a matter of years?

International Students

Due to demographic growth not just locally in United States, but in the whole world and negligibly small acceptance rates in the most populated countries such as China and India, the flow of international applicants is increasing every year. If you just google “number of international students in USA” the prevailing majority of the search results’ headlines will tell you about record numbers of foreign students, which enroll in American universities every year. In fact over past decade the enrollments grew 32% despite the big decline that came in 2001 after 9/11 attack. Such brain drain from other countries is certainly beneficial for the future of the United States and the economy of the country, contributing about $ 20 billion last year, but certainly not beneficial for American students. With increasing number of international students the pool of applicants is growing even faster, making the application process even more competitive.

Applying Online

There is no doubt that we live in the era of technology and never-ending advancements in everything could not leave the application process unaffected. Although most of the colleges still have their own paper application, most of the students use their online equivalents instead or the system called Common Application. This “digitalization” of the application process saves a lot of time. Now you don’t need to fill out all the information and write an unique essays for each college of your choice. You do it once and the system will do the rest of the job for you. This means that each one of the student can apply to a greater number of schools, which surely doesn’t increase the total number of applicants each year, but it increases the applicant pools for individual university.

Snow Ball Effect

As we know applying to college is all about getting in, and for the applicant the factor that gives him or her the most information about their chances is certainly the acceptance rates from the previous years. Let’s say the acceptance rate in the applicant’s first choice school is not very high and to be safe he or she decides to apply to few more. There is nothing bad about it, just straight common sense. Next year when other people are about to apply to one of those schools they do the same thing – they check the acceptance rates from the previous year. Based o that numbers they become even more uncertain about their chances and apply to more colleges just to be safe. This can be going for years and years. Acceptance rates drop – students apply to greater number of schools. Students apply to greater number of schools – acceptance rates drop. It’s an endless cycle of triggers. As a result we have an illusion of declining acceptance rates which is topped with a real decline due to demographic growth in the whole world. This is a complete disaster that needs to be stopped.

Is There a Solution?

If we’ll summarize the issues that I’ve mentioned above we can come up with several options that will keep the acceptance rates leveled at least for sometime.

• The government should encourage the development of more extensive network of universities.
• Applicants should not apply to universities based on institutions’ hype.
• Applicants should limit the number of colleges that they apply to.

Technology has indeed effected the way sports are played nowadays.  Through new technology incorporated within equipment, different sports have evolved as new facets of the game have been highlighted.  For instance, in hockey finesse players are now more highly coveted than enforcers or tough power forwards.  This can be attributed to the new rules of the NHL, which limits the amount of contact between players.  Players used to be able to stick check, slap check, hack, whack, poke, and lift at a player with their stick.  A high hit or elbow here and there never hurt anyone.  More specifically the addition of the helmet to the game has proved to be a catalyst for more illegal hitting, resulting in more injury occurrences and an overall more dangerous game.

I know from experience that helmets can be used as a weapon when hitting.  A lot of children at the youth league levels develop bad habits of using their head to lead into their checks.  Once this happens, head to head contact usually follows, which could result in a concussion for the victim of the hit.  I am not, however, asking for youth leagues to not require their participants to use helmets during play because the damage that the kid’s helmets prevent is much greater than the damage that they could be used inflict upon someone else.  I am asking that the NHL ban the use of helmets so that kids don’t carry their bad hitting habits into the big leagues where stronger faster players using their old habits will result in a much more dangerous environment for the rest of the players.  A perfect example of this type of attitude is shown here on Marc Savard, who had a career riddled with head injuries until this one finally forced him to cut his promising career short.  With this restriction lifted players will be forced to use their body more to their advantage and shy away from the head checks that have plagued the game recently.  Stylistically, I believe it has suppressed the culture and nature that made hockey so special in the olden days.  Players with thick luscious mustaches and long flowing locks ran wild throughout the league, giving the fans of the National Hockey League many different personalties to root for.

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These characters and style of hockey is what is missing in the game today.  The new “face of the NHL”, Sydney Crosby, is himself on the injured reserve list for post concussion like symptoms.   It is undeniable that the game needs a facelift, and looking back on what made the league so successful in the past is the key to solving the problems now.  I understand that the new generation of National Hockey League players have become strong, faster, and more violent through intensive year round training and practicing, so something must be done to counter the game’s progression.  With the subtraction of head gear from the NHL, there will be a rise in entertainment value and safety, which have been two problems facing the league since its lockout.

Fighting has always been a vital part of the NHL, weather it was bringing people into watching games or protecting your teammates, fighting has always been a part of hockey.  But after the recent deaths of NHL enforcers Derek Boogaard, Rick Rypien, and Wade Belak, many people have called for fighting to no longer be a part of the NHL.  All three of the men had been dealing with depression and one of them on a prescription of painkillers.  Fighting opponents believe that their depression was caused by the roles they had playing in their NHL careers as enforcers or “goons”.  Contrary to that belief Chris Nilan another former enforcer who has also battled drug and alcohol abuse vehemently protests any suggestion that his struggle is connected to a career in which he twice led the league in penalty minutes.

Hockey without fighting

A league without fighting would be a league where players would not have to pay for their actions.  Fighters are in hockey to help protect the skill players.  Without fighters on a team, smaller skill players would not be able to move as freely as they now do.  Opposing players would be able to hurt a team’s star player without having to fear for their face being beaten in by a 6 ft 3 in 222 pound fighter.  In the 97-98 season, the Anaheim Ducks lost their top to players to vicious cross-checks to the head.  The next year the Ducks signed Stu Grimson, otherwise know as the “The Grim Reaper”.  By having a player like that in their lineup, opposing teams knew they couldn’t do anything dirty.  Players like Wayne Gretzky would not have been as great as they were if it was not for the enforcers protecting them from injury.

Can Fighting Really be Banned?

Fight has been a part of hockey since it began, it cannot simply be removed as easily as everyone believes.  Whatwould the repercussions of fighting be if it was outlawed? A suspension? A fine?  Some coaches would be willing to accept that to stop a player from repeatedly hitting their star player.  If you look at the NFL’s ban on touchdown celebrations and how well it has stopped players from doing their dances after scoring you will be able to see how well the NHL’s ban on fighting would work.  Even other sports like baseball and basketball where fighting is banned it still happens.  It seems that whatever way you look at it fighting will always be a part of the NHL, even if it legal or illegal.  An NHL without fighting will be a league dominate by teams intentionally trying to injure opposing players in order to win.

          “Hospitals all over the world struggle to fulfill the growing need for organ transplants. One key to the problem could be found in bio-artificial organs or manufacturing the human body from scratch.” reported Elisabeth Fischer.

              No matter which country you live in, there are thousand and thousand of people on the waiting list to get their organs replaced. Unavoidably, every day some of them have to die because of the short supply of healthy organs. More essentially, even though some may have found the right donors’ organs which can be replaced with theirs, there is still a need of a match in order for the transplants to succeed.

             Without a match, the recipient’s immune system can reject the transplants and may lead to “a graft rejection.” Furthermore, the donors’ organs can also have a different immune system from the recipient’s, which can cause “graft versus host disease” in the recipient’s body. Consequently, the transplanted immune cells will tend to attack the recipient’s body cells and over a long-term course cause damages to his or her connective tissue and exocrine glands.

             A better solution would be bio-artificial organs. These organs grow from the patient’s stem cells and are then applied to “a balloon shaped frame-work, made partially from collagen,” to regrow the organs which will share their DNA, thus eliminating the worry of finding an exact match. “It’s like baking a layer cake, you’re layering the cells one layer at a time, spreading these toppings.” said Anthony Atala, MD, the Director of the Institute for Regenerative Medicine, located in North Carolina.

             Francisco Fernandez-Aviles, chief cardiologist at Madrid’s Gregorio Maranon hospital said, “This solution will put an end to two problems: the lack of donors or organs suitable for transplant and the rejection of transplanted organs by the patient.” “In the future people who need a body part may get their own back—regrown in the lab from their own cells.” said Josie Glausiusz.

             According to reports by Harvard, in 2009, the process for successful cell regeneration are “a sustainable scaffold of cells, which function normally with the absence of antigenicity”. The clinical trial demonstrated that Harvard was able to create the ideal conditions for generating a replacement airway for the woman, who was suffering from broncomalacia and loss of optimal air way function, using cells from her own body. 

             Also in 2009, Doris Taylor, Ph.D, Center of Cardiovascular Repair at the University of Minnesota, has created a functioning beating heart of a rat. She grew cells from one rat on a scaffold she created from the heart of a different rat by washing off its own cells. Watch the video here.

For those of you who know me best, looking at the title of this post and seeing the student responsible for it may come as no surprise. I play lacrosse, something that immediately puts me into the category of “bro” to my peers. When I asked my roommate the simple question, “Dude, am I a bro?” he sternly responded, “of course you are.” After taking this emotional blow, I recovered, and really contemplated what the meaning of the term meant. How has it evolved? What will it evolve into? Why was I offended by this comment? The term will soon be completely negative, but it didn’t start that way.

First off we need to look at what the term meant years ago. Back in the early 20th century and before, the term bro most likely did not even exist. It’s expanded form, “brother,” was the only form known to man. No one can prove when a term that once meant: a man or boy in relation to other sons and daughters of his parents, turned into something that referred to a lacrosse player. A lacrosse player, might I add, that is seldom viewed as intelligent. The term brother was once biological, but at the peak of African-American suppression in the United States, brother changed in meaning, and spelling.

Brother turned into “Brotha,” and now referred to a black man speaking about another fellow black man. Countless examples arose throughout history, with some of America’s icons being involved. Brotha Malcolm (Malcolm X), Brotha Ali (Muhammad Ali), and many more were categorized by the term. Being black had evolved into a brotherhood.

On our next stop in history, the term evolved into a “hippie” style word. It turned back into “brother” and was now a term used for surfers. Perhaps this is the first time bro was used: “Surfer bro.” As you can see by this video, Malibu is quite a bro.

In recent days, with the growth of the sport of lacrosse, the term now means someone who wears a lacrosse pinny, has sunglasses, mid-calfs, and perhaps a vineyard vines filled closet.

With such incredible evolution of a single word, one has to think what is next?

Words evolve with pop culture, and the latest meaning of bro is merely a fad. The phrase will soon falter, and be replaced by another meaning. The sport is growing, and more people will begin to play and change the meaning based on their personality as a whole. One day, the word bro will not be associated with lacrosse players.

The word has a negative meaning, and I believe the future holds more associated negativity with the word. But what will change is what is associated with the word. It will no longer be associated with surfers, or lacrosse players, but with idiots. When said with the correct tone of voice, the word “bro” can be a huge insult. It will soon be referred to the kid that walks around campus on the first day of college acting like he knows everyone. The kid who pompously states his name when called in attendance will be a bro, along with the kid who consistently talks about how much alcohol he can consume.

The future is not bright for the slang term, but there is always hope for the things it is associated with. With any sort of slang word, associations will be made with certain people, sports, actions, etc. Bro has turned from a sign of family, to a sign of similar race, to a negative image of a person. The future “bro” will just be a kid no one wants to hang out with. It is indeed a sad day for bro’s everywhere.

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What is the deal with the world and technology?   Today, no one leaves their house without their phones.  People go to the bathroom with them just incase someone sends a message.  The scary thing to realize is that the average age of cell phone users starts at the age of eight.  This is the year 2012, and the technology use is going to only get younger and younger.  In 1983, the first cell phone was created and was used for emergency use only.  Rarely, people would have them and if they did, it would be in their car and not for communicating with friends.  Think back to when you were a little kid and the games that you played with.  Did it consist of a smart phone, Ipod, Ipad or a laptop?  My guess is no.  When thinking back to the 90’s everything was much different.  The time spent on the internet was minimum because it would tie up the phone line.

Computers, computers, computers.  What would anyone do without them?  Walking through the door, the first thing people do when they get home is go straight to their computer.  Probably not to read up on the news, but to see if they have any Facebook notifications.  The red flag gives the best feeling because you know that someone is creeping on your Facebook.  The first social network site that was big in middle school was Myspace.  Everyone had a Myspace and a lot of people hid it from their parents because they were not allowed one.  Others were, but it had to be private because you must be over a certain age to make it public.  Then came Facebook, but that wasn’t popular at the time unless you went to Harvard.  Obviously, people went to school other than Harvard so the social network expanded to high schools.  At this point they became more popular and the majority of people started to use them.  Four years ago, it still wasn’t like it is today.  Normally, people who weren’t in high school didn’t have one but now people in elementary school have them! That big computer you couldn’t take anywhere, now can go everywhere.  Twitter is the hot new social network and it won’t get old anytime soon.  Not only can you update where you are at all times, but you don’t only need a computer to do so. If laptops were a big invention, now there are Ipads.  Ipads do everything and can go anywhere.  When the laptop first came out, everyone thought it was so small in comparison to the desktop and now we have Ipads that can go in a purse.  The scary thing about today is that little kids play with them and actually know what is going on and how to work the device.

Apple has commercials with little kids promoting the Ipad.  This clearly shows that it is for all ages and even babies can work the device.  The age of technology users get younger and younger each day and will continue to do so. The upcoming world shows that people will be less social, have no personality, and be focused on the screen in front of them. In the future,  technology is going to take over the world.  Babies will know how to work and Ipad when they are first born and the world of technology will continue to grow and take over.  

5 REASONS TECHNOLOGY IS TAKING OVER:

1. The average age to get cell phones is 8 years old.

2.  50% of a your day is spent of a social networking site.

3. Babies love to play with cell phones.

4. Facebook will get creepier and creepier

5. The walk to class is getting less talkative due to people on their phones.

ITS ONLY GOING TO GET WORSE…