observing the progress of a discourse from itsbirth in the declarations of a few people through majorshifts in practices that they could not have anticipated
Essentially meaning watching an idea start with a few people and eventually develops into something bigger (which leads to unexpected big changes).
front-mounted engines, transmissions, and the like.But he would be greatly surprised by the changes inhuman practices that have grown up around the automobile
Though the evolution of technologies today have obviously been heavily influenced by its origins, there is always something that needs to be new and exciting, never before seen. Could be a reach, but this could be a great example of how things that are constantly evolving were not created for certain human practices, and that our generations are now greedy, always seeking to be better and to invent more technologically advanced things (an example of this in the automobile context would be self-driving cars; just get a chauffeur at that point. Another example in the context of internet is AI - shows how lazy we are when it comes to research. Google wasn't enough, nor was ChatGPT in its original simplicity of assisting with research, AI has evolved to be so efficient, it has started to bleed into robotics.) Essentially, some things are better left simple.
In the remainder of this essay I would like toconsider these events in a way that reveals why thistwenty-year-old invention, networking, should have hadsuch an effect on the world, an effect more profoundthan that of the
Supports his earlier claim that "Networking has had an effect on the world more profound than that of the more spectacular and expensive Apollo moon missions"
Jennings developed a technique that allowed two BBSs running his “Fido” software to automatically fetch messages and files from one another
This development simplified sending messages, surely influencing the future of the internet. If this has never been developed, who knows how the internet would have unfolded.
the origin of the internet was traced back to ARPANET
Topic discussed in class 10/15/2025
ChatGPT rephrases material from the Web instead of quoting it word for word makes it seem like a student expressing ideas in her own words
This sentence essentially calls out ChatGPT for what it really is - a tool that rephrases research found on the internet. You can always find the same information online with a bit of research, and word it more simply according to your understanding (making the content more suitable to you and your use of the knowledge). At the end of the day, ChatGPT is only a tool that summarizes multiple different answers found through research online. Though it's a useful tool to summarize topics at large, it doesn't delve into details of each website, article, etc.