Google now beats talking to friends for young Kiwis with emotional or health problems, a survey has found. The Colmar Brunton national survey of 403 people aged 16 to 24 found that 64 per cent of young people said Google or other websites were the most common places their peers would go to “access information Read more
Posts Tagged ‘Google’
From sci-fi to fact and its moral implications
Friday, February 28th, 2014
3D-printed organs – quick explanation: this essentially entails filling an old inkjet printer with human tissue, which then gets ‘printed’, layer by layer, to form a 3D object. Last year, we implanted the first bioengineered blood vessel, and it won’t be long before we’ll be able to print a liver for anyone who needs one. Because Read more
Free speech in the age of YouTube
Friday, September 28th, 2012
Companies are usually accountable to no one but their shareholders. Internet companies are a different breed. Because they traffic in speech — rather than, say, corn syrup or warplanes — they make decisions every day about what kind of expression is allowed where. And occasionally they come under pressure to explain how they decide, on Read more
Google criticised for advocating same-sex relationships
Tuesday, July 24th, 2012Google’s push for the legal recognition of same-sex relationships in countries like Poland has drawn the ire of critics, who suggest the company should address basic human rights violations elsewhere. “I am afraid that Google can’t distinguish between discrimination, tolerance and promotion,” Fr. Maciej Zieba, the director of Krakow’s Tertio Millennio Institute, told Catholic News Read more
New Translation: Google did it
Friday, June 15th, 2012
Among all the opinion pieces about the new translation of the Roman Missal there is one that provides a blind test. It gives 4 translations from Latin into English of the same collect (opening prayer) and asks the reader to pick the translation that is done by Google Translate, an online computer translation program. Father William Grimm then Read more
Now everyone is connected, is this the death of conversation?
Friday, May 4th, 2012
A professor at MIT who is also a psychologist, Sherry Turkle says that her students are almost able to keep eye contact with someone while texting to another person. In her opinion, such people are “alone together … a tribe of one”. Those who have 3,000 Facebook friends have no friends. In his opinion piece, Simon Jenkins Read more
Catholic related Google searches on decline
Friday, June 24th, 2011
Queries for Catholic related topics on Google have dropped significantly in volume between 2004 and 2011. The significant drop is disturbing however and while we should be concerned, it’s not a cause for panic, according Mark Gray a research associate at the Centre for Applied Research in the Apostolate in Georgetown. Gray created graphs from Read more
Heaven’s a fairy story for those afraid of the dark
Friday, May 20th, 2011
Heaven’s a fairy story for people afraid of the dark, physicist Stephen Hawking said earlier this week. There is nothing beyond when the brain flickers for the final time. Hawking, diagnosed with Motor Neurone disease at 21, is now aged 69. “I have lived with the prospect of an early death for the last 49 Read more
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