Writing

Earthlings ought to seek true meaning of life

What is life? Something that has the following characteristics is considered: it moves, talks or makes noise. Basically, something that has some or one of its characteristics like us is “life” (according to us). If you see the movie Frankenstein, when the robot stands up (moves), the doctor exclaims “It’s alive!” Well, how did he reach that conclusion? Why was it alive when it moved? Couldn’t it have been alive all the time? Who knows? I believe that our perception of life has been and is something that moves, and therefore, to say that something is alive, something has “life” in it, is to imply that something moved. This might not be the best analogy to exemplify my point but it is the most famous one to use.

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Technology marketing has been genderized

You know, I never did think of technology in this regard – and I guess not even you have – until I took a history class. I took History of Technology in the fall term, not because I wanted to, but because I had to. I was sort of disappointed, as I had to take a course in a subject that I have always hated. Being from India, I was asking myself the reason to study the history of a foreign country. But, to my surprise, as I mentioned earlier, it was a class about the History of Technology; about how things were invented, about how certain stereotypes came into existence.

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Web Technology has both pros and cons

Drexel University quite rightfully boasts about its wired or “unwiredness” every so often and is quite proud of it. Well, I would like to look at it from a different perspective. Every course syllabus, course material and virtually everything we would ever need is found online somewhere on Drexel’s web site. This is not necessarily bad, as we are moving into the “age of the internet” so to speak, but I do not feel it is good either.

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Edison was a loser!

Yes, you are right; that title was mostly to get your attention. But the fact is that Edison was a loser, although not in the literal sense. Thomas Alva Edison was, and still is, known to be one of the greatest inventors of all time, and the record for having the highest number of patents definitely proves that. When I say loser, I am referring to the war of the currents, the war of the Edison Electric company with the Westinghouse Company, the war between two of the most influential figures in electrical history, Thomas A. Edison and Nicola Tesla.

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