Tara Abatemarco suggests Salon.com: "The web site I have chosen that advocates technophilia is Salon.com. It is an online news magazine that offers everything from popular culture to technology. With its abundance of up to date information, it allows the internet to be a source for people to find intelligent, reliable, well-written articles."
Becky Allen strongly urges viewers to go to this site from the Free Range Activism Website: "This is the home page of the electrohippies collective which truly emphasizes technophilia. The electrohippies collective are activists who feel the Internet needs to be protected from big business. They organize other groups and individuals and host online 'sit-ins' by using software that interferes with their targeted web site. The group has been criticized for their destructive tactics and have even been called online terrorists. They have recently disbanded."
Marshall Annis suggests the Popular Science website: "The Popular Science web site definitely advocates technophilia. This
site is great because it deals with all the latest technology and cool
new inventions. The site is broken up into sections such as Computers &
Consumer Electronics, Home Tech, or Auto where you can read some pretty
interesting articles on all the latest developments in science and
technology."
Deepak Arora suggests the Ameritrade website: "Ameritrade is one of the only online brokers that is completely
dependent on internet technology. Most stock brokers have at least a few
physical offices in which to conduct business. Ameritrade relies
completely on online trades. People with hundreds of thousands of dollars
depend on the internet to conduct a myriad of trades. This type of business is clearly an example of technophilia."
Paul Chuong suggests this article from the International Trade Administration: "This is an article from the International Trade Administration that promotes the use of technology and the internet by showing its positive effects on the world economy. The article lists the advantages that technology and the internet introduce to all kinds of busniesses and demonstrates how businesses who frequently take advantage of new technology and the internet show tremendous growth." Webmaster's note: this article is in PDF format, which requires Adobe Acrobat.
John Fleming suggests this page from the Claremont (CA) Unified School District website: "The Claremont Unified School District page has a small article that explains computer instruction to its
junior high school students. Tasks from word processing to multimedia use to research through electronic encyclopedias are taught. It is the hopes
of the school district that teaching technology to the kids keep the children interested and most importantly, learn how to use technology and not be afraid of it."
Chris Gilmore suggests this page from Eric Digest on The Benefits of Information Technology: "I especially liked this website's advocation of technology in the classroom. First, it raises the issue of whether or not computers in classes are beneficial. Then, the writer addresses the issue directly, giving a list of reasons as to how using computers can
increase student skills. Overall, this article is very direct and offers
specific methods of technological integration in classrooms to make it
efficient."
Stefanie Kealey suggests this site from Global TechnoScan: "The site is advocated as 'The most frequently visited technology Transfer Market Place'. The website appears to be geared toward those looking to become involved in breakthrough business ventures. I found that many of the articles on this site focus on the benefits technology brings to the medical world. Topics include: a new kidney transplant procedure, stem cell research, and the development of a new 'Navigation system' for the visually impaired. Although the site is meant to attract business investors, it does advocate technophilia in that it shows how important and profitable new technology can be."
Kristy Klein suggests this article from the American Association for the Advancement of Science called Technophilia.com: "This article, 'Technophilia.com' was written by Robert Spinrad. He starts the article by breaking down and defining the term Technophilia.com. He then goes into a discussion of different types of technology, including, for example, the internet, wireless connections, and digital agents. He provides useful information regarding each of these topics, and seems to be very educated on the subjects using facts and statistics. The article is supporting the idea that we are living in a technophilic age with the use of the mentioned examples." Webmaster's note: this article is in PDF format, which requires Adobe Acrobat.
Julie Lauenger suggests this site from TheCommsLab: "This website talks about how we need more modern technology to fit the busy schedule of our daily lives today. Many different issues, such as wireless video and analysis in medical applications are mentioned throughout this web page and the associated links on it's page. This website clearly supports technophilia."
Paul Lavoie suggests Wired.com: "Wired.com is a website that contains any information imaginable pertaining to technology news and gadgets, which makes it a good candidate for advocating technophilia."
Jeffrey Lees suggests this site from WorldBank.org: "The title is social capital and information technology from PovertyNet. It discusses the development of technology and the unprecedented risks that will follow with it. It does however discuss how it is potentially useful for people to access information that was otherwise only available through libraries. It is definitely for technology, at least in my mind."
Blake Loscalzo suggests Kyle Obley's Virtual Communities website: "This is a very basic and easy to understand web site about the
differences between technophobes and technophiles. The web site describes the
technophobes endless fears of technology taking over society and the
dangers that could potentially accompany that take over. Technophiles on
the other hand, are lovers of technological advancement; they become
obsessed and dependent on its uses. Tecnophiles are completely
enthralled in technology and the infinte knowladge that technology can provide
for them and society."
April Mahoney suggests this site from UPenn: "UPenn seems to be strongly advocating computer literacy. They have developed a program in which they plan to rebuild computers so that the 'underprivileged' of the community will have an opportunity to use advanced technology."
Kevin Manoni suggests this site from NextExit: "This is a well written article that encompasses a few generations of technological advances and explains how generation gaps can be created when the older generation is not adaptive to new technologies. The author portrays modern technology as useful and also easy to use. There is a very positive view of technology at the end, she basically wants to wire the world."
Sophie Moravej suggests the Yahoo website: "www.yahoo.com is a site that offers a variety of
services through the internet. This site encourages
technophilia because the use of a computer and the
internet are necessary to gain access and because this
site simplifies and replaces many tasks that before
required time spent on the telephone, time spent in
lines in the store, books, encyclopedias,
televisions, radio and other forms of entertainment.
Most of the services offered by this site requires a
free, simple registration."
Taki Naito suggests the SoloSingles website: "The topic of my site was Internet computer dating. Since our assignment dealt with technophilia, which to my knowledge is websites that advocate and support technology, I believe that this computer dating website would fit perfect for this subject. I typed in key terms into search engines that i thought of after reading several of those articles listed for our class. I used terms, such as "opportunities", "power of the internet", "euphoric embrace of technology", "good technology", "positive technology" and somehow I came across a dating website after an extensive search. This website would work perfect for technophilia, since it is a new advancement in our society that promotes heavily on the good of technology. This site showed nothing but positives, and no downfalls of Internet dating. It basically showed how technology has made something so great for people to date and not worry about actually meeting the person, if that certain somebody was shy, or scared of being turned down."
Katie O'Keeffe suggests this article from EricIT.org: "This site discusses in great detail the necessity and the benefits of
using the cutting-edge electronics as resource tools which should
hopefully stimulate the minds of young children. Studies have shown that
children are more confident and able learners when they are given tools
that make learning stimulating rather than a requirement.
Further in the page, the benefits of using technology in the
classroom are extended to the teachers, for the Internet alone can give a
teacher insight on how to better prepare effective lesson plans as well as
stay organized, in addition to using email to stay in touch with
parents and other colleagues.
I believe this site greatly supports technical or simply the
advancement of technology because if the premise of education is to make
students smarter, school systems are smarter for having made use of what is
new and popular.
Michelle Spangle suggests Joel Simon's and Carol Napolitano's "We're All Nerds Now" article from the Columbia Journalism Review: "This article is about how technological advances have revolutionized reporting.
The author calls the "internet the greatest reportorial tool since the telephone." He talks about how palm pilots have replaced the bulky laptops that once needed to be dragged from one site to another. He mentions that digital cameras allow editors to review pictures and ask for different
shots before the event is over. He discusses how databases and web searches have allowed reporters to gain massive amounts of information about the story at hand. He says that in the past only nerds used advanced technology, but now, one cannot be successful without it."
Jan Voolstra suggests this article from Scientific American: "I chose this site because in my original search of'technology aficionado' Scientific America came up as
one of the results. After some searching of the site Ifound this page and it is all about technology. Thisis the perfect site if you are interested in technology."
