Technology and communication

 

          Technology and communication has come a long way since the 1700's. We now have iPhones, 3-D Printers, Smart Boards, etc.. Some major players in communication and technology would be the printing press, the telegraph and the iPhone. 

        The printing press is a major player because it changed our culture completely. The printing press made it easy to produce a mass amount of books, magazines, comics, etc., it changed how we printed ink on paper. Before people used to have to stamp each page by hand and that would take forever. With the printing press we were able to produce so much more in such little time. Another major player would be the telegraph. The telegraph changed the way we communicate. The telegraph sent electrical signals through some wires (over a mile long) where on the end the message was scanned on a paper and people could communicate through that, but only if they could afford it. The telegraph was the first electrical message sending machine. The last major player is the IPhone. The IPhone started an era of new technology. The IPhone created a way to talk, text, surf the web, go on social websites, and play games all in one. The IPhone influenced our IPads and IPods. Wherever you go now (almost all the time) you see people with IPhones, IPads, and IPods. These things have had a major role in how our culture is today. 

 

   The printing press, the telegraph, and the iPhone have all helped us do things quicker over long distances. The printing press made it easier to produce more in such little time. The telegraph made it easier to communicate over long distances. The iPhone did the same. The iPhone is a way to do everything at once. 

        All these things have helped us overcome time and distance. The printing press, telegraph, and the iPhone are just a couple of the technologies that have helped us overcome time and distance. Technology now has made it so easy to become lazy. With the iPhone you can talk to your friends without having to go to their house to talk face to face. You can just FaceTime. When the telegraph was first made it was the first way to talk to people without having to see them face to face. The printing press was the first book making machine ever. It started an age of fast pace. The world is now fast pace. Everywhere you go things are fast. Fast food places, fashion, and music are some examples of fast. With fashion and music something could come out and be really popular but then a week later and people are like "oh that's so last week," and then they move on to something else. That's just a little glimpse of how our world is changing so much. 

       The new technology can be good. As our culture advances we are able to make good out of it. We have advance in medicine, defeating cancer, and tracking down criminals. With technology, doctors/scientists are able to find ways to fight sicknesses and cancer. In the field of justice, police and the FBI are using technology to solve cases. There is also so much more good stuff that has developed and that will develop. 

         Technology can be used for bad also. You are able to send terrible stuff to anyone. You can post disgusting and hurtful things on social websites and on the internet for everyone to see. You never no who knows who and how some people will find out things. I think social media is a good thing so you can connect with people but I don't think it's ok to allow everything that happens on those websites. For example, on Instagram if you see something inappropriate and you report it nothing happens! So what's the point? I think they just like to be able to threaten people that your account can be deleted if you are not appropriate but that does nothing. I want to design a social website that you can connect with people but if are not appropriate then you WILL be deleted it disgusts me how this world has become. Well, that concludes that.   

   http://www.cio.com/article/655946/Then_and_Now_How_Technology_Has_Changed_Our_Lives?page=5#slideshow

http://www.teenink.com/opinion/pop_culture_trends/article/169088/ 

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3-D printing

          3-D printing is starting to become more and more. Three dimensional printing is the process of making solid objects through digital designs. It starts out on your computer. You make whatever design you choose and then the printer starts making it layer by layer. You can make it as big or small as you desire. You may use wood, steel, gold, silver, or plastic. Whatever you choose can make something. The price range for a 3-D printer is from about $1,000 to $600,000.    

            3-D printing can be good and bad. It can save time but it will get rid of a lot of jobs. For example, the jewelry business. If you had a jewelry store and you were doing good then all of a sudden everyone has a 3-D printer in their house then no one comes because they can just make what you have in your store at home. It can also start new jobs too. You can create a online job. You create a website for jewelry! People go on your website create any design they want, you make it, and ship it to their house. Many people can do that job. Those that actually had a store will be put of work unless they do that or find some other job. 

               The materials you would need to have jewelry would be gold, silver, brass, and gems. Those prices would go up depending on the demand. Let's say it was originally $20 for 15 gems (with only a couple people with printers) then more and more people start getting printers and then it's $30 for 15 gems.

              Right now to make things is expensive. If you were to get a 3-D printer and make a ball it would be $20. If you were to make one million balls it would only be a couple of pennies. The more you make the less it costs. 

               Three dimensional printing can change the way we do things. When normally you would go to the store to get some jewelry or shoes, you could just stay at home and make them yourself. Our culture is teaching us that is better to have something that was made quick and crappy, then to have something that is good, well put together, and takes longer. It's time over quality. 

                 3-D printing can also change hospitals. When you need a organ or a limb (bone) you can just print one out and BOOM! You have what you need. It will an exact match of the part that you need instead of waiting a long time to find someone else that has the same thing that you can use. It's really going to change how we do things! 

http://youtu.be/QD2Rdeo8vuE

http://mashable.com/2013/03/28/3d-printing-explained/

http://hbr.org/2013/03/3-d-printing-will-change-the-world/

http://www.physics.org/article-questions.asp?id=120

Cheating

            Cheating gets easier and easier as we advance in technology. You can now go on the internet and find your quizzes and tests with the answers to them and nobody will now. Lets look at the cost benefit analysis for a second. The cost of cheating is a bad grade and getting in major trouble. The benefit of cheating is getting a good grade and feeling good about it when you do finish.
              There are so many ways to cheat. For example, you can put a piece of paper with all the information you need on it inside your water bottle, you can put it on the back of your ID card, you can write it on your hand. I just found 24 ways on "how to cheat on a test". It is really that simple.
               There is also cheating in social ways. Men and women both cheat on each other. When they do that they are doing infidelity. Infidelity is the abuse of relationships for personal gain. Most men and women want more than one spouse so they have one and then cheat and have another. You always see the sad stories on the news or tv shows about how one of them cheats and either ends up dead or divorced and unhappy because no one wants to be with them because they know they cheated.
                  There is also a third way of cheating. You can cheat in games also. Every game as some way to cheat. I cheat when I play Monopoly. You can also cheat during sports.
                  There are many ways to cheat. So many it uncountable. Just don't cheat because 9 out of 10 times you get caught.

PASSWORDS CAN NO LONGER PROTECT YOU

M          With our society today, it has made passwords extremely easy to get into. All you need is the right equipment and your good. If you have a password for anything someone somewhere sometime will hack it. Passwords can no longer keep you safe. 

           I interviewed 2 people all asking the same question, "how many accounts do you have with a password and how many of those are the same?" The first one has 35 accounts and at least 20 of them have the same password. The second person has only 14 accounts and 8 of them have the same passwords. Now a days, if a hacker gets into only one of those they can hack into more. It's safer to have different passwords. With the first person I interviewed if a hacker was to get into one of those accounts they could get into 19 more easily. 

           Your passwords now need to have a capital letter, numbers, and it needs to be very long. The most common passwords are 123456, yes, and no. In our society now, people are careless about their passwords. They don't care what it is but they will for sure after it's been hacked but by then it's to late. NEVER USE THE SAME PASSWORD! EVER! Long passwords are the best. 

           A password is a single point of failure open to many avenues of attack. The majority of hackers are looking for money, are over seas syndicates, or just bored kids. There are places on the internet now where hackers can find out everything about you. For example white pages, they allow hackers to look up a name and then they give them where you have lived, where you live now, how many kids you got, ect.. 

            People are now using biometrics. Examples are iris scanners, finger print scanner, DNA or blood samples, and voice authinefication. The differences between biometrics and passwords are you can always change your password after it's been hacked but you can not change your DNA or fingerprint. Banks are now monitoring your patterns. If you only take out a little money or put a little money in and then one day you put a lot in or take a lot out then they get suspicious and call you to make sure everything is all right. 

              As I have said before, passwords can no longer protect you. 

http://youtu.be/mDLVYdrjOao

The church

       We go to the church we go to now probably because we like the music, image, people that attend the church, etc.. But have you ever noticed that the people on your street all go to different churches?

Everyone on my street goes to different churches. Now a days, there are so many churches that we don't come as a community and go to one church. 

         If there was a law that you could only go to the church that was within 2 miles of your house do you know how much closer that would bring you and your neighbors together? We become a tribe of individuals when we go to different churches. We are a community that goes our separate ways.  Me and my friends drive across town to get to our church. When we can just drive or maybe even walk (if it's close enough) to our church. 

         I go to my church because I feel at home there. Other may go because they like the up to date music or the pastors messages. There are many different reasons we go to church. But I do think that we may become closer as a community and learn more if we went to the church that was specifically for our neighborhood. I think things would be much different if we weren't all tribes of individuals. 

http://youtu.be/oUJpJyth3J4

Jennie finch is a world wide famous softball player. Jennie went to the university of Arizona. She has been playing softball her whole life. She is now spreading her knowledge of softball across the country at all the different camps she does. I have been recently asked by my social media teacher to do six degrees of separation. Well I picked jennie finch. But the problem is she is so famous it's really hard to find her and get a hold of her. For my six degrees of separation I did me-heaven(used to play softball with)-her hitting coach(also plays on the Cal Bears)-her friend(who knows some people)- who knows some people- Jennie Finch.  That's my 6* of separation. 

Obesity how it effects us

Obesity how it effects us. If you go to the link tagged here: http://youtu.be/PU2Rv6vnw1k.  You will see my best friend and I doing a video blogg about obesity. Please check it out. 

Tribe of Individuals

        We are a tribe of individuals. We are individuals who sit on our lazy butts all day communicating with other people instead of face to face. We stay at home and talk instead of as a community gathering to talk and work out problems. You may be talking over the internet with who you think you are in love with when actually they are not. You may think they are really cute when in reality they are not so cute. That's a problem with us being individuals. We don't use face to face interaction as much as we use to and that's taking a tole on our culture and communities.

          We are a tribe by being connected one way or another. You have groups (friends) on FaceBook, Instagram, and twitter your connected to all of the people in your group. If you like a tv show and you post it on twitter or something someone from India could see it then you could become friends with them and add them to your "tribe." Your tribe is basically your group. 

            We are a tribe of individuals by being connected through social media instead of face to face interaction. You can sit at home on your couch and talk to a group of your friends instead of all gathering in one spot to talk.

              Some positives are that you can save gas so then you don't have to drive to your friends house to talk and you can connect with more people. It's not as hard. There are some negatives though. It is very dangerous. You may think it's someone when it really isn't. Plus you begin to become lazy and addicted to what ever you do on social media. For example me, I am addicted to Instagram. I am always on it. Sometimes that pries me from hanging with my friends because I just zone out on it.

                I think it's going to lead to a very bad future. We are all going to become lazy and are going to be two faced. It will really mess up our future. That's just my option you all may have a different opion but that's mine. 

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            Mail. Mail is a wonerful way to communicate with other people. You can send text, video, or pictures to who ever you like as long as you have their email address. Mail has been around for a long time. You can send physical mail through the post office or you can send it through the internet. Which ever way you use you still can get a message to someone.
            Mail is a very useful tool. It allows you to get something very important to someone in a quick way. Back when George Washington was president people used mail to get important messages to him while they were in battle. Mail has come a long way since then. So has society. Now you just go on to what ever account you got (ex. yahoo, google, msn....) and send something to someone through space and onto their computer at home.
             Mail can be a bad thing too. If you use the physical way you can send someone a bomb or if you have ever seen a crime show on tv you somethimes see the physco send the family of the victum a finger or an ear. You NEVER know whats in that box. So we need to be safe and be aware that if you get something in the mail from someone you don't know, DON'T OPEN IT!!!!!!!!
           

  So, there are good things and bad things about mail but it is still a way to socialize with other people and to get gifts or something to them.

         The power of networks is effecting our culture. We use to have to go to each others house to tell them something or show them something. Now its only two clicks away.
          Facebook has changed the way we interact on line.  On facebook you can show pictures, where you are going, and comment on other peoples profiles. It is a way to stay in contact with people you have met along the road of life. Facebook is a way to connect people from across the world. You can be friends with someone India that you don't know. Facebook allows people to be two faces. You can be really ugly and fat in real life and on facebook you can be all skinny and cool.
          Google, Bing, and Wikipedia are some examples of networks online. Google, Bing, and Wikipedia all have one source that branches down into little things. Like google and bing have websites that are used to produce information. Wikipedia is used for finding information.

         

          Nor-Cal Elite, San Juan, and Nor-Cal Cruisers are all examples of networks offline. They are examples of networks offline because they are a network that branches down into teams. Like 10U, 12U,14U,16U, and 18U. Those are all teams that play under the names Nor-Cal Elite, San Juan, and Nor-Cal Cruisers.
          Networks are so powerful because people allow them to become powerful. The world has allowed networks to effect our culture. Networks would have only little influence if people didn't cared but sad thing is people allow networks to control their life.

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