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Question 2: Write down all the topics of the class presentations and a brief description. The class presentations were about different technological items, each team presented different topics on new technology. They explained the basics about the items, like how does the item work?, why is it useful?, people who use these items, impacts of the items in our society, etc.

The smartophone presentation showed its different qualities.They explained why is it more useful to have a smartphone, rather that a normal phone. Of course it was also introduced the bad things of having a smatrphone, like prices, battery life, etc. They also presented why are smartphones called like that and it is basically beacause they can do los of tasks at a time and have a access to multiple applications. They showed graphics presenting the contruies that used more smartphones and which contries have had the biggest impact with smartphones.

The social network team explained different aspects of these popular items inthe World Wide Web. There are hundreds of different types of social nteworks, one the the first social networks that appeard was Myspace, burt in a few years it lost popularity and now is mostly used for advertising stuff. The most popluar net work site is certainly facebook with millions of users.

They mainly talked about what are social networks about, which are the most popular, about what can you do on them, The social networks are useful because they let people communicate to each other even if they are far away, and let the people express what they feel with all freedom. facebook and myspace hava nad a huge impact on our society because nowadays people spend more time in the social networks than in any other activity and also the increase of criminality have grown terribly because of the information that people put on their profiles.

The smartphones also have changed our society because nowadays people use more their mobile phones than the computers in itsel but nore they are using them more because the smartphones are more affordable and have also the usages of a normal computer and also it is more prtable so the use of computers will be reducing.

There was also the topic of touch screens that explained were are they used, advantages and disadvantages and the technology they use.