This reading was all about how the internet is slowly starting to cause people to be less social in day to day activities with the people around them. Instead they are starting to get on the internet and talk to people in chat groups. They did many tests and experiments to see if it was actually true and surprisingly it was true. People are becoming more depressed and starting not to participate in social activities that their community is having. They just sit at home and surf the web and talk to some person from across the world. There are some good points to the internet. It gives people a place to find information on virtually any topic that they could think of. It also allows socially awkward people to find a place that they feel comfortable so that they can have some people to talk to.

I think that the internet is a great thing but people need to know the dangers that it brings. People are getting smarter every day and coming up with new ways to snatch your identity. Then there are the people that pretend to be a different person online so that they can meet up with someone and possibly rape or kidnap them. I support the internet and always will but people should know what they could be getting themselves into before they get on it.

The first chapter of this book was actually more interesting than I thought it would be. It was clever how the author thought of all the different things that depend on randomness. It is very true that the world revolves around things that are random and randomness plays a role in all areas of life besides areas with specific rules and guidelines like math problems and English errors. One day you could be doing just fine and by randomness the next one of your cells could have turned cancerous and now you are facing a fatal cancerous. Randomness is helpful and sometimes detrimental.

I liked how he was rooting for Maris, a underdog. The Maris proceeded to break Babe Ruth’s homerun record in 1961. The majority of America was rooting for the other guy, Mantle. He was a more personable person and everyone enjoyed his company while Maris was more secretive and kept mostly to himself. It was by randomness that he was the one that broke the record but at the same time it wasn’t all randomness according to Mr. Mlodinow studies. His studies showed that he was capable to beat the record. It was by randomness that Mantle’s knees did give out before he was able to bet the record.

This was a very interesting reading. I am not entirely sure what we will be discussing in class today but whatever it is I bet that it will get my attention just any other of the topics that we have covered.

More or less the sections we read were about people that worked in job that don’t get the best pay or any pay but the people that work them still feel that they are contributing to society just by the little things that they do every day. The farmer is the person that is literally holding our country together because when the Great Depressing happened it was because the farmers had a surplus of crops and nowhere to send them to. When they started losing money so did everyone else. The waitress was very pleased with her job because she is getting money quickly and she loves to be social.