EOTO, Presentations

   What I learned during one of the presentations is what news deserts are and how it is seen today.A news desert is when a community does not rely on daily or non daily newspapers. News desert occurs for lots of reasons but some of them are because there is a lack of supply and demand. People would rather get their news from somewhere else other than having to wait a day to find out the news. Another reason that there are news deserts is because there are online readerships. This is when someone would rather pay for an online source than having to pay for a newspaper. The truth is that people are starting to refrain from newspapers because they can get their news easier and faster now with the technology that we have today rather than having to wait a day to find out the news. Some ways we could help this problem is to do in depth research on which communities are at risk of news desert or we could increase funding to news deserts. 

    

    News deserts are becoming less popular with over seven million Americans now living without enough local news. And lods of journals are being laid off from work.In one of the maps shown in the presentation it showed that lots of cities only show one newspaper to their city. And some even show that they have none. News deserts are not just hurting local news stations across the United states, they are also hurting people that are in journalism by making them lose their jobs. Newspapers are something that provides news, people's views, and provides advertising. If we don't do something about news deserts soon we will lose newspapers as a whole in the coming years. 

Living in the Age of AI

     While watching this video I learned that AI is taking over our world if we want it too or not. AI has started to take people's jobs because you don't have to pay a robot to work so they also don't have to pay taxes. By using AI in jobs it is making us either lose our job completely or to go to a less paying job. Which is making us have more people in need to rely on shelters for food or basic needs. 

    AI is causing more mortality in our world. Which even affects the younger generation. They are known to be more depressed and even to repeat a grade. It is also making it harder to be able to advance past your parents in the workplace. AI has even started to move to being in fast food changes. AI is going to make us split because it is going to continue to make the rich more rich and the poor more poor. By AI making automated systems it is going to make us not have a middle class anymore. AI is getting rid of blue collar jobs by replacing them with robots. 

    AI is also shown in our social media.Social media is searching us, we are not searching them.They can tell every detail about you your thoughts, dreams, and even your desires. They can even tell everything you are doing that day by you sending texts or searching something on Google. 

    Some important takeaways from this is that AI might have some good things about it but overall it is not what we are wanting. AI is too advanced for us and it is over all hurting us. Something that surprised me is that AI can tell everything about us just by getting little information about us.They can tell how to create my algorithms so that they are
related to my likes and needs. The other thing that surprised me is how AI can be looking and listening to us at all times. And how some people even invite them into their homes. Overall this video has made me realize how much AI is starting to take over our world and not for the good. 

EOTO Terms & Concepts

Has your family ever switched over from cable to internet based television companies like Netflix, Disney +, HBO, or Hulu? Well that is called cord cutting.Cord cutting is when you cancel a subscription to a cable or satellite service. And move to services that are internet based. This is usually cheaper and you can even save money every month. With cable at average being 200 dollars a month people are starting to switch over to internet based services. With services like this it is more accommodating to the needs of the customer. 

To start cord cutting you need to begin with moving to a streaming service that you find interest in. And all you need is a good internet connection and an inexpensive streamer like Roku or Amazon Fire. And they will give you access to lods of streaming services like Netflix,Disney +, HBO, and Hulu. If you are interested in getting local news or sports games you will have to get Live streaming services also. For youtube TV it is around 25 dollars a month. 

Most people say that they move away from traditional cable because most cable companies have long contracts and customers may also be getting channels they don't necessarily care for. Others have said that they just strictly did not use cable enough for how much they were spending on it. Cable is at an all time low right now with major cable companies collectively losing 6 million paid subscribers each year from 2019-2022. But it is not just cable that is stuffing from this. It is affecting our society by losing paid advertisements. With most of the platforms promoting that they are an ad free service, advertisements are losing some of their demographics and having to come up with a different way to reach them. 

Cord cutting will affect our generation by ending cable completely. Millennials and Gen Z are the new generation and they are already seeing a fall in cable. We are more likely to have to pay more money to avoid ads.We also don't want to have to wait a week to see another episode of a show. And a lot of this generation also likes to keep up with shows that are only on streaming services that originals  to the platform.Cord cutting also may affect the poorer demographics more by them getting to choose which platform they are paying for making it cheaper and more convenient for them. 

I think overall why cord cutting is becoming so common in today's world is because if you are trying to cut down something the first thing to go would be cable. Also a lot of it has to do with if you have kids or not because they are part of the reason some people switch over. Cord cutting is very common in America with over half of the American population no longer paying for cable.