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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?