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Cal Newport, an associate professor at the Georgetown University argues that people should quit social media. This claim is backed by the fact that he is a well known author, professor and blogger but has no social media accounts. His claim is that nobody needs social media and it is more of a time waster than anything. I disagree with that claim. Social media obviously has some downsides, but overall social media is so widespread, YouTube for people that make videos, Twitter for people that want to express their opinion online, Facebook for people that want to keep in touch with relatives or friends, LinkedIn for professional businesses and people with professional profiles. All these companies and platforms make it easier than ever to get and stay in touch, from your personal relations to finding a job or hiring someone. These companies and platforms also have great other things, YouTube doubles as an online streaming service, Facebook has their own local buy-and-sell platform ca...

I started reading the Article that Mrs. LaClair gave us. I got down to the article section "Autonomous AI" of the technology article and found the authors argument about AI interesting. For one, the author seemed weary of artificial intelligence which does come on good merit. I found this piece on AI interesting and wanted to know more. I came across this article shorty after titled "The AI that can predict if you're going to die - but no one knows how" (The Telegraph, 12 Nov 2019). This article intrigued me and I decided to read the article. Turns out AI might be the thing we have been missing. According to The Telegraph, an AI system from a US Healthcare center can compile millions of sets of data from patients and can form accurate predictions about the patients lifespan. The algorithm analyzed 1.77 million ECG results from 400,000 patients and predicted with 85% accuracy whether a person would die from health conditions or not (The Telegraph, 12 Nov 2019)....