the final paper

The final paper was very interesting and I learned a lot about what was going on in the world today.  I learned a lot about what was going on in general with current affairs and what was going on with the Green movement.  Since I have always found the Green Movement to be a very interesting topic. I dove right into the argument.  The topic is mainly about global warming,  and if all the pollution, chemicals, gases etc. that are being produced in the world today, is affecting the atmosphere and the average temperature of the Earth.  Many people, say the people who support the Green movement are hippies and tree huggers, but I do not think so.  These people are just aware of what is going on in the world, when discussing the environment, weather and the atmosphere.  I found that it seems to be that there are two sides to this argument.  The first side is the people who agree with it, and the second side are the people who do not agree with it. I found sites on the computer and information in my book that supports both arguments.  The side that is mostly liberal agrees with global warming and thinks that it should be stopped.  The side that does not agree with it is mostly conservative and says that the temperature of the earth goes in cycles and there is no need for alarm.  There are also many people who are indifferent to what is going on in the world.  No, matter what people say are no matter what side you are on, this seems to be a very real occurrence. If we stop producing these gases today, we have enough gases in the air that we have already produced that the atmosphere will continue to deteriorate for the next hundred years.

random post

This post will be about the future of our country and how the job market will be for kids currently graduating from college.  The economy has been so bad and hundreds of thousands of people are losing thier jobs, how is it possible for a 22 year old graduating from college going to get a decent job?  First, the economy has to turn around, than these companies need to start hirng back these people who were laid off.  But, there is a problem with that.  These industries have become super efficient and super lean that they do not need to hire back these people, if they can get the same work out a robot or outsource the work overseas or in some cases they do not even need people to work for the companies.   This is not very promising for thousands of kids graduating from school.  How is it possible for kids like us to graduate and get a good job? The only way to make money and have a good life is to become an entrepeneur,  you cna start your own business, although that really isnt the best way to be succesful, or tou can develop a widget.  Unfortunately, it is tough to become self-employed.  You need to have alot of motivation, alot of skill, and alot of moeny.  Many people do not have this, so what are we going to do.  Everyone says go to college and get a degree, but we dont know whats in store for us when we graduate.  We are supposed to spend a hundreds of thousands of dollars to get a degree, but that what? There is no guaranteed jobs and way of making our money back.  What are we going to do/

facebook effect 2

Thefacebook was active at 370 schools and was valued at 40 to 60 million dollars.  Shortly thereafter it grew to 75 million dollars. At first this site was strictly made by college students and used strictly by college students.  It was in its prime and at first had a tough time taking off.  Many people espescially computer and dot com agencies did.  It was tough to get started with because of the dot com crash of 2000 to 2001, but the companies finally had enough capital to begin.  Once this started thefacebook began to take off.  The price was raised to about 80 million and people really started to show interest in the site.  One of the reasons why facebook took off was due to the fact of a man named Mark Zuckerberg.  He is an intelligent man and very sensible.  He is a Harvard graduate and was great with computers.  But, he wasnt the only guy toget the site going.  he had alot help, his friends from school.  Although, the very unfortunate thing about making money and becoming famous is that you lose your loyalty to your friends and start becoming very greedy.  This happened to Mark Zuckerberg and he and old friends, who helped develop the site were in a financial war to see who really deserves to have the rights to the site.  However, I think that Mark Zuckerberg still has the rights to the site and is probably a billionaire.

random post 1

This random post is going to be about the developing advancements of technology in the modern age.  The other part will be if it is good or bad.  Personally, I think that it is important to understand how technology is affects our lives and so on.  Technology helps our life become easier in many different ways.  For one, it helps us communicate much faster and easier among people, it helps us be able to to learn much quicker and easier, receive important updates, fight the war on terror, help create medicine, help allow for the better distribution of energy etc.  These are all good things and make things easier and better on people, but at what cost.  The technolgy could help allow people to build bombs, get information to hurt people in the hands of the wrong people.  For example, there is a aubstance called anit-matter that can power cities very easily and is very clean, but if it not handled correctly it can destroy cities.  That is the double-edged sword we have the abililty to be great but also to be cruel and dangerous.  We have nuclear reactors and have nuclear technology, but we are also the only country that have dropped nuclear bombs on another country.   Also, is having the ability to instantly communicate with people a good thing? It could impede our ability to grow and become mature.  I think that we need to really thibk about where we are going with this technology because if we let it get out of hand we can destroy ourselves, we will be a vicitm of our own superintellignece.

facebook effect 1

Facebook is a social networking site that is rapidly takking over the way we communicate, live, work etc.  It was started about 7 years by a bunch of college kids.  The guy who really took it to the next level was a man named Mark Zuckerberg.  He currently is a very wealthy man living in the United States.  Facebook helps us to be closer to people and to connect with people that otherwise you would never connect with.  Alhtough it is important to ahve friends, you must also be genuine and real when it comes to having your facebook page because if you are not genuine than you will not receive many requests.  Facebook is not all well and good.  For one such example it says that we are increasingly living our lives in public.  Does that mean we are turning itno a world of exhibitionists.  Some people say that it is a celebration of the minutiae of our lives.  Also, how will it lead to change and development if our actions are constantly being scrutinized by our friends.  This is helping people become more interactive and exchange ideas, but is it the kind of ideas that we want to hear or are they original.  Will Facebook impede or help people when we are discussing emotions, and emotional maturity?  Who is facebook good for? Do we really need it or do we think we need it? These are questions that must be answered and will be answered within the next couple of decades.  I think that it may impede our ability to learn and to change because everything will be scrutinized and judged.

wikipedia

The wikipedia assignment that we had to do for class was very useful and eye opening.  I always knew that Wikipedia was not an accredited and valid source but I did not know much more about the site.  I knew that anyone at anytime can post whatever they please on whatever subject.  This means not that there are many personal views and insights and many skewed facts about the article.  There is no person who can check the postings and that is no good.  I also realized that along with bad information, there is no information at all about alot articles.  There are missing links and links that are not there anymore and and a whole more variety of things.  In Wikipedia, depending on who wrote the article there are many biases and personal opinions.  For example, some sites on global warming have a conservative opinion who obviously says that global warming does not exist and is made up.  On the other hand some sites on global warming say that global warming exists and is due to a variety of many things, these sites are many written by liberal authors.  I would not suggest to anyone to use Wikipedia for any type of project, paper, assignment etc.  It just is not worth it.  I think that my group did a great job and everyone deserves an A.  My partners did their part and did it well.  Everyone did their work on time.  We knew alot about the subject and worked very hard on it.

made to break/ part 3

The same issue arises with part 3, I think, than with part 2.  The development of all of these programs, devices, mainframes, consoles and so on.  I think that it is necessary to discuss the consequences of this crave for technology, rather than to embrace, admire and crave it.  I know that Americans we are impatient and needy and I understand that we want everything the day before yesterday.  But, we need to realize at what cost.  Another question that we must address is when will enough be enough.  How many computers, ipads, Ipods, cell phones and other devices do we need.  How much more connected can we get and at what price.  Not only can this technology be harmful to people, it may cause depression, reclusive attitudes, obesity and communication deficiencies among people.  But, the biggest problem is the issue of global warming and the amount of waste products being backed up all over the world.  One of the reasons why I am talking about these issues and the effects they ahve on global warming is because I am doing a report on global warming and I feel that some of the information in the book directly is related to the reasons that cause global warming in world.  First, the manufacturing of these products are causing gas emissions to go into the air to which causes global warming.  Second, the transportation of these products by ship, boat, plane, truck also cause problems and the last thing is the dismantling of all these products which causes health issues to the people and may damage the land with chemicals.  If we stop producing the greenhouse gas emissions right now, it will take one-hundred years in order to for all of the gases to go away and be dissolved.

made to break/ part 2

As we have learned in the first part of this book.  Waste from computers, phones, laptops and other types of communictation devices have began to pile up at an exponential rate.  This is very unfortunate becuase this is the age where devices like these are really starting to take off and millions of people want them.  Unfortunately, those people will get rid of their old computers, phones and laptops to make room for new ones.  These devices have to go somewhere and they are.  The production of all these devices are one of the reasons for global warming and the cause for many other issues, espescially health issues.  Many of our old products are sold to China where they are dismantled and destroyed.  Unfortunately, Chinese regulations on the safety of the disposal of these items are non-existant.  This leads to various health problems among the workers and the native population.  My blog my not be directly related to what we I have read  in the book, but something related indirectly.  This issue is much more important than the development of computers and these devices, but the consequences it brings to our world and the people living in it.  Everyday, millions of Americans communicate with each other and at a very fast pace.  But, we want better technology and we want it the day before yesterday.  What I am saying is that we have so much technology and we are so obsessed with all this technology but at what price.  For every new piece of technology created it automatically makes the old one complete.  Which than becomes garbage and is sent to some far off place.  This not only creates problems for those people, but it creates problems for the whole world.  We are rapidly outproducing ourselves and we are rapidly losing places to throw out the garbage.  This is becoming a problem, but also the issue of global warming.  When we produce all of these items and than we ship them all over the Earth it emites gases into the atmosphere.  We need to be aware of what we are doing to ourselves and the future of the human race.

made to break/ part one

In Slades, Made to Break, there are many interesting and important historical and modern facts which relate to the development of this country.  The historical facts are the developments of various items that our country uses and how they came about.  Such as, bandaids, cars, razors etc. These items were develope by very important and intelligent men, who took one idea and modified it for a better more marketable item.  One example is the bandaid.   It was developed until 1924.  The bandage was what people used to heal cuts but it was to large and not very effective.  It was than made smaller and used a chemical to make it sticky.  This was the development of the bandaid.  The next was the car, at first there was the tin lizzie which was noisy, smelly, homely and unreliable.  This was not very effective with people at the time, espescially women.  The upgrade to that was the model t.  It was not as noisy, cleaner, more modern and innovative, much more reliable and all at a good price.  This became a favorite for millions of people and everyone soon had to have it.  The reasons why these items became so popular was becuase of two reasons.  The people selling the cars knew what was wrong with the items and needed to make the more efficient and they knew how to market them.  Once they wer marketed a proper way, they exploded onto the scene and become extremely popular.  This relates to developments of this country because thousands are products have become popular today because of great marketing.  People believe that they need these products and than they have to have them.  The funniest thing is that we really do not need these products but the media plays such a big role in what we need but does not differentiate in what we dont need.

world and wikipedia part 2

When the online encyclopedia first came out it was a huge hit and had very positive results.  One of the reasons why we love this site is that it is a virtual world in which we can share information among people and throughout the world.  People in Africa can learn about information in the United States.  We can learn about infromation in Russia and they can learn about what is going on in South America.  We also love Wikipedia because it lets us be push the limits of being explicit writing whatever we want.  We love Wikipedia and we also hate it.  Many people say that it is very informative, but we do not ever think about what is wrong about.  Many people can say whatever they want to say on whatever subject and can bad mouth certain people, organizations or events.  If alot of people read those articles than it can be very, very embarrassing and upsetting to those people.  Now comes the question of illegality and slander, which can be a very nasty business.  Considering the good and bad of Wikipedia, the pros and cons are pretty much even.  Many people love Wikipedia and love using it.  I do not foresee it being abolished by any government in the world.   I personally, would do what I can to help abolish this site because it is not an accreditted web page.

world and wikipedia part 1

Wikipedia is a site on the computer in which you can read up on various subjects, people, events etc, in world history.  Wikipedia is world wide and can be read in hundreds of languages.  Millions of people use this tool everyday to do research and what not, but is it reliable? Alot of information on Wikipedia is true and correct, but alot of it is not.  The reason being for this is that anyone can go on the site and write anything they want on any subject.  This is not an accreditted source of information. This is why professors tell their students to avoid retreiving any infromation on the site and putting it in their papers.  This is why I do not use Wikipedia for any of my sources for my papers.  Thousands of people can edit anyone elses work on the site which is the reason for the quote, " The best feature of the site is that anyone can edit virtually anything,contained on it, the worst feature of the site is that anyone can edit virtually anything contained on it."   Although, many kids use this site for work and so on becuase they do nnot care about the validity of their work and alot of times they do not have to site it.  It is also used for people who like to post and write about certain subjects that interest them.  Although, do to the inaccuracy of many of the postings on Wikipedia, many companies such as Google have tried and succeeded to become partners with the site.  The reason for this is that the site gets many hits and is very popular.  This would help their profits and the notoriety.

technopoly/ part 2

In the second part of Technopoly I started to learn the machines and technology start to take over in many forms of ife for humans, such asrelationships, jobs and so on.  For example, the lie detector test became so popular that it eliminates complexity and doubt among people.  But, it also eliminates the x factor of situations which could prove to be dangerous.  This x factor could be your gut reaction eliminated or lie detectors could eliminate people from jobs who just got nervous under questioning and told the truth but was interpreted as a lie.  Also, the abilities that many people have could be eliminated by machines.  Such as, doctors who practice medicine would rely on machines and the traditional art of examining someone and establishing their illness would be wrong.  Also, many people who have abilites such as putting a car together, building a bridge, or building a house would be lost because machines would do all the work, which will eliminate the human component.  Since, the economy has been in a recession many companies have had to eliminate jobs from people and turned to machines and even robots to do some type of work.  This, unfortunately has taken jobs away from people, which left them in a tough position.  When the economy turns around these people will not be hired back because machines have taken aver their jobs.  Many people do think that machines and technology is a great thing, which in many cases it is, but in many cases there are many people out there who are suffering and having a hard time, due to the advancement of technology.  We need to embrace technology, but we also need to be aware of the consequences in which it brings.

technopoly/part 1

The first six chapters of Technopoly are very interesting and informative.  The book references uses of tools by civilizations for solving a variety of problems and a variety of issues that posed a problem to societies, whether it be religious or practical.  I read that many civilizations have created tools for determining time, determing seasons, building fires, tunnels, roads, bridges, weapons and so forth.  What I have gathered is that we develop tools at first for necessity than for pleasure.  Now, after awhile we use technology becuase we become so dependant on it and we cant do anything about it,   it becomes almost like a drug.  In this, type of world there become technopoly, technocrats and terms that describes a certain civilization or government that is centered around technology.  Religion played a big role in what inventions and devices were able to be allowed to be used and not used in the public.  Many people developed technology, like Michelangelo and did not tell anyone because he was afraid of the consequences.  Personally, i think that society is going through a very extreme change.  Mainstream America is going through a hard time and a severe change.  Many people and companies are going to do business different and technology is going through a change which will make companies rely more and more on technology, until the human element is almost severely eliminated.  This is true today becuase many companies are becoming super efficient and are relying less and less on people and more and more on technology.  This saves alot of money and makes life much more efficient.  

evolution of computers

The second half of this book is mostly about the evolution of computers and the people who helped design them.  At first, computers were very primitive and very large.  They were mostly used by the government or large firms for variuos reasons.  They were very expensive for the time and were very slow.  After twenty or so years the computer phenonemon took off.  People became much more interested into computers, companies started investing largely into computers and they began hiring young kids to do some of their work, regarding computers.  One of these people was Bill Gates.  Unfortunatley, another reason for the huge interest for development of computers was the Cold War.  The Soviet engineers embarrassed the American engineers by launching the first artificial satellite.  This prompted large amounts of money into science and research for computers and among other things.  The reason for this was that we wanted to become a superpower again and compete with the Soviets when it came to science, engineering and electronics.  The rest of the second half of the book has to do with networking and starting to become a virtual community of people and ways of getting in touch with people via the Internet.  The main idea of this book is show us the development of computers throughout the history of our society and the reasons for this.  The Cold War, general interest in computers and technology, the understanding of the effect of computers in a society.  I think that the development of computers is a very good for the world.  It makes alot of work much easier and quicker and it really changed the way we run live our lives.  Although, with the good comes the bad.  There are some downsides to computers.  It keeps children away from doing other acitvities outisde which can play a role in the a childs mood and personality.  Many people are happy with the way things are going wtih computers and the only change I see in the future is that computers become smaller, faster, more reliable and advanced.

blog 1

In the reading, I read very interesting and important material that has to do with various technogical and innovative devices.  These devices range from being very old to somewhat current.  They also range from being primitive and remedial to very advanced.  Many people from a variety a cultures used certain devices and instruments to communicate to the gods, navigate on land on water, tell time, figure out equations and son on.   The first device that I read is the astrolabe, which was at first thought to be used for navigation but, it actually was used for calculating lunar, solar and stellar calendars.  This was a big find becuase it completely changed the time the scholars thought that these devices could be made, people were much more intellignet than they had previously thought.  Another imporant development was called tide predictors, which simply determined the tides for fisherman.  One of the biggest devices that was ever created was the computer.  It helped people solve long and rigourous calculations instantly.  Since that was slow and not as efficient scholars came up with the calculator, which was created by blaise pascal.  The first man to create the modern computer was Thomas Atanasoff.  Ironically, World War 11 was a time in which science and technology soared to new peaks and things really changed.  For, example, the atom bomb, enigma machines, jet engine technogoy, outer space technology and so on.  Another time in the history of the world that sparked new technology was the cold war.  Both superpowers took on challenges to be the most powerful country on earth.  In this time, many more advances had come about and more people had access to them.  Unfortunatly, the reasons for these advances were to kill their fellow man before they could kill them.  I learned alot in these readings, the reasons for the advancements of technology are many, the biggest reason that I could figure out, was that peope would not die and become extinct, for self-preservation.  The main idea of this article is to tell us hoe important technology is and how far our society has become in a technological advancements.  i think that these advances were created for the good of society, but also to better and more advanced than our enemies.  These reasons are various.  The things that scare me range from what our country will be like in one-hundred years.  Will there be flying cars, immortality people being telepathic and so on.  I also think that the technology the goverment has, far exceeds what we have at our fingertips, which is scary.  How much farther and advaced can we become and at what cost?

daily life

As I went through my week I noticed that I use the internet, computer, facebook, e-mail and various internet websites much more than I thought I do,  This is due to the fact that I have been writing down everything that I do and slowly but surely the time added up.  I use facebook about an hour a week, I use my e-mail about another hour a week, I go on and use the computer about five hours a week, such as limewire and just searching random material.  I wouldnt say that I use alot of technogy but I definitely use more than I thought that I did.  I also use this technology a lot more than my parents do, but i would say that my friends use a lot more than I would use.  I also would like to add that I use technology much more than my parents ever did while they were growing up and much more than people did when they were my age ten years ago. This technology is very useful and we have made great strides in the past ten years with technology and so on.  But, with the good comes the bad.  Many people have lost their social skills and graces.  Young people are losing their skills on how to write and form a sentence.  The advanced technology also has lead young people to become overwight, has lead to mental disorders such as depression and other ailments in human society.  i cant tell whether it is better to have or to not have technology.