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The Technological Singularity: Potential Effects on the Human Experience

Many think that technological intelligence will soon affect human life more than we have ever imagined. These advancements may even be able to fundamentally transform what it means to be human. Is this really possible? Is it already happening? Author, futurist, and renowned inventor Ray Kurzweil remains optimistic – about both the inevitability of such …

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Emoticons, Internet Acronyms, and other Digital Lingo

We’ve all seen them. The ubiquitous smiley face, with a colon for eyes, and the left parenthesis as a smile 🙂 It’s called an emoticon; a combination of the words emotion and icon. They are used everywhere in our virtual worlds, conveying gestures and moods that can’t normally be expressed in type. The most common …

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The Evolution of Human Communication in a Post-Digital Age: Emoticons, Internet Slang, and Texting

Do emoticons, internet slang, and texts affect the way we communicate? Even just 15 years ago, I wasn’t texting and web chatting at the rate I am today. It wasn’t that the technologies weren’t available – they were – but only a very few early adopters used them regularly. Today, however, nearly everyone I know …

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