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Technology Fast

Dee Espinosa • April 1, 2025

What did you give up for Lent? If you're not Catholic, what would you sacrifice for a brief period of time? And why isn’t it technology? This Lent, I decided to give up—at least to some extent—my technology usage.

Why Headphones Might Be Hurting Us More Than We Think

Pat Connell • November 24, 2024

The first thing I noticed without my headphones was how dependent I am on the distraction of music. I live in a quaint and homey Mod, and even something as simple as walking to the Walsh laundry room—a one-and-a-half minute journey, at most—always required my AirPods. I grew uncomfortable doing so without them. The walk was shorter than the length of a song, yet I loved the reassurance that I would not have to talk to anyone I ran into.

Sorry BC, Your Vinyl Collection Doesn’t Make You Cool

Tommy Roche • October 6, 2024

In the modern, superficial, forever-online world that always wants to sell you something, nostalgic tech is a rare breed: it is offline, it is permanent, and it is plain. Nostalgic devices are not simply reliable machines or shiny baubles in the consumer rat race.

Is The Fear of AI in Academia Justified?

Katie Spillane • March 18, 2024

The technology to accurately determine whether AI has been used simply doesn’t exist yet, but is it even necessary in most cases? More often than not, students aren’t using this technology in the way teachers fear.

Dean’s Colloquium Examines the Role of Artificial Intelligence at Universities

Annika Engelbrecht • February 18, 2024

Getting ahead of artificial intelligence (AI) and understanding the value of education is important in preventing total domination by AI, according to John FitzGibbon.

The Independency of Dependency

Pat Connell • February 4, 2024

We are living in “a system of cells interlinked within cells interlinked within cells interlinked within one stem.” So maybe I just rewatched Blade Runner 2049, but that does not mean it isn’t true.

Control Over Chaos: Why AI Needs to be Implemented Inside the Classroom

Jose Garcia • January 30, 2024

AI is part of a broader goal to expand the limits of the world we live in, not contract them. The AI question is centered around control of reality, because this new program isn’t leaving this world anytime soon.

Boston College Needs to Take Advantage of AI, Not Run Away From It

Peter Coquillette • March 19, 2023

Just like the internet, computers, television, and telephones before it, AI has untapped potential to change our lives for the better—no matter how much we resist it at first.

VRoom VRoom: Oh Listen It’s the Sound of the Simulation Taking Over

Alli Hargrove • September 18, 2022

Virtual reality makes me nauseous. But not like the nauseous I get after challenging my stomach to another night of BC dining—it’s more like the nauseous I get when I feel impending doom...

When Technology-Free Classrooms Inhibit Certain Students’ Learning

Louis Gleason • September 16, 2019

When I would read my high school math class syllabus, I read it differently than most of my classmates did. While my teachers would specify that homework would only take between 45 minutes to an hour to...

A Pocketbook Recap of HUBweek 2018

Alessandro Zenati and Rockib Uddin • October 17, 2018

HUBweek returned to City Hall Plaza from October 8-14 and curated a lineup of events relating to this year's motto of "We the Future". Shipping containers served as exhibitor spaces, while speaker stages were housed in igloo domes and glass-paneled modules surrounding the main nucleus.

Beyond Addiction, Technology Is a Necessity

Luis Fialho • September 23, 2018

"This isn’t a new trend—anyone with cochlear implants or pacemakers is aware of the naturalization of technology."