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Position Paper #4- Wild Card

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       Mobile apps include so many categories. There are literally apps for everything. There are apps for fashion, finance, education, agriculture, crafts, reading, etc…. More specifically in the category of reading, I wanted to bring up the app Libby. Libby is an app that I use very often in my personal life. I truly do not like being by myself and really hate silence. If I am by myself, I want to feel like someone is talking to me. I love listening to stories, and Libby really allows me to do this. I absolutely love audiobooks and ebooks!  Libby is a free app created by OverDrive. OverDrive.inc  prides itself on creating apps that provide audiobooks, ebooks, online magazines, and videos to the public. OverDrive has also produced another app named Sora . Sora is a similar app to Libby, but it is only available and targeted primarily towards students.  Libby is a free library app that gives people full access to audiobooks and ebooks. The only ...
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Position Paper #3- Forecasting the Future

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                                                                           "Hey McFly, you bojo!   Those boards don't work on water!"   If anyone is similar to me, then they were also obsessed with the “Back to the Future Films.” In these films, it stars a kid who ends up traveling back to the future with an older sidekick named “Doc Brown”. These films featured a cool car and some interesting plots. These movies (especially the first one), which were filmed in the 1980s, predicted many future technologies. Some technologies that Back to the Future had predicted includes; “personal drones, tablets, mobile payment technologies, biometric devices, hands-free gaming consoles, smart clothing, wearable technology, video phones, waste-fueled cars, hoverboards, e...
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Position Paper #2- Cybersecurity

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    Cybersecurity is an extremely important topic. Due to our ever-changing and evolving technological society, protecting our online data is very necessary. Losing our data, or having our data hacked into can lead to horrible issues such as identity theft, loss of finances, and/or social media accounts being tapped into, etc... So, what even is the definition of cybersecurity?  Cybersecurity can be defined as, “the practice of protecting systems, networks, and programs from digital attacks." "These  cyberattacks  are usually aimed at accessing, changing, or destroying sensitive information; extorting money from users via  ransomware ; or interrupting normal business processes.” When researching the topic of cybersecurity, I honestly started thinking about how this topic applies to me. Personally, none of my data has been touched. I have never been hacked or cyber-attacked. I have had family members who have had their social media accounts tapped into. Ho...
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Position Paper #1- Mobile Apps

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“Forest: Stay focused, be present, or simply Forest”      The App that will be mentioned today is Forest. Forest is a productivity app that allows users to use a timer or a stopwatch feature to track their productivity goals. This timer or stopwatch will time the individuals to see how long they have been productive on their studies or any other types of work that they are wanting to perform. The software is quite interesting, because not only does it time you, but the app also allows users to set certain increments of time on the app for the app to count and then stop for breaks (Example: 20 minutes). These little subsets of time will count down.       Once your subset of time has been counted down, a virtual tree will then plant on your field located on the home screen of the forest app. If you quit before that certain amount of time runs out, your tree will then wilt and die. Forest will make sure that the user is not able to open any other app whil...
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