Technology is us in a sense because of how we use it to define ourselves; I am not able to communicate with people from afar without the use of a phone, however because I have a phone I am able to do so. ... Possibly the biggest innovation in this area is the invention of the Internet and how it has connected people from across the globe to create the ultimate sharing platform. ... We do this because it is convenient. ... With this trend in mind, it is not impossible to think that within the next 5 years most people will have modern technology implanted into their bodies. ... However the impl...

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Ed. was born with the rise of mass compulsory schooling. ... So why was mass compulsory schooling introduced in 1875 in South Australia? ... (Postman 1993) If television threatened schooling as we know it then how much more do computers, information technology and the Internet affect the future prospects of schooling? ... Postman (1993) points out that these children are not stupid but the victims of the media war that rages in the nineties. Delors (1996) suggests that it is the responsibility teachers to teach students how to decode and analyse the media. ...

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For example, the long term tendency towards freer trade, electronic commerce and the seemingly uncontrollable power of deregulated capital markets do much to enhance the power of markets and create a sense of the economic irrelevance of national borders. ... It should be seen as a systematically interactive set of processes in which the direction of causality is two way and contingent. In such a context part of the problem with understanding globalisation is the nature of the populist, sometime hysterical, discourse on the subject to be found not only in the media but also in a range of so-c...

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