Modern Warfare

Video games have unforeseen consequences. If video games came up in a moral debate, many would say that they have no value. On the contrary, many would say that they destroy lives of families and couples. The value that most would welcome to the other side of this debate is games have the ability to release stress and provide great entertainment. Until the O.N.R. (U.S. Office of Naval Research) had announced their finding on the correlation between gamers and soldiers, there might not be much more to add to the pro-gamer’s side of the debate. The O.N.R. has found that gamers are more capable for combat than non-gamers. They found soldiers that are gamers score 10 to 20 percent higher on test of their perceptual and cognitive abilities than soldiers who don’t play games. This correlation between gamers and soldiers may provide great insight to how the military might recruit and train soldiers. Until more research is gathered, we can only speculate about the future of modern warfare.

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Hopeful Future

The future is a mysterious concept. No one truly knows what the future has in store for them. Some may object to this previous claim, suggesting to know what lies ahead. For a while this might be so, but soon they will be met with disappointment. All of us have to come back to reality. This is what contributes to making big decisions so difficult. Once the future has reached the present and the present disappears into the past, time is gone forever. The one thing that helps us face the future is the trust we put in ourselves to make good decisions. We need to develop that trust because it is essential to living a longer, fuller, and more prosperous life. We can’t be optimistic that life will bring us good fortune without trusting in ourselves. This doesn’t mean we won’t all have our misfortunes, but life is too precious to focus on the bad. So trust yourself, make wise decisions, and be happy.

Friendly Competition

Herbert Hoover once said, “Competition is not only the basis of protection to the consumer, but is the incentive to progress.” Progress may come for Apple and Google, as some recent disagreements between them has lead them to some “friendly” competition. We see the advances we have had from the competition between companies such as Microsoft, Apple, IBM, and Google; each one has strived to capitalize on being the best. Competition brings us lower prices, better products, and astounding services. How great is that? Unfortunately, the torn alliance between Apple and Google might not bring their consumers lower prices or better services. Nick Bilton, journalist at the New York Times, thinks it might bring a “format war” between the two. One thing is for sure, if this completion doesn’t bring on desired results for the consumer, then Apple and Google have misunderstood how this could have helped their development. Only competition that is aimed at winning over the customer will bring them success. If a competing company gets enveloped in its enmity toward another company, it may prove to be its downfall.

http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/01/20/the-war-between-apple-and-google-has-just-begun/?ref=technology

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Where would we be without technology?

Technology has helped us do many great things. On the other hand, it has brought much harm to the world. Is it technology’s fault, or is it our capacity for taking something good and finding the bad in it? Technology brings us out of ignorance, helps us accomplish things that take days instead of years, and allows us to obtain vast amounts of information with the click of a mouse. It also has brought into our lives access to pornography, envelopes our minds with useless, unimportant information, and creates forms of media addictions. Whether technology can be used for good or bad, we have a choice for how it is used in our lives. Let us use technology instead of being used by it.

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