Kevin Nguyen
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5 February, 2015
Assignment One
1a. Biomedical Sciences/ Health Technology
The study of biomedical sciences and health technology help promote and maintain health for animals and humans. Research from this field helps prevent and sometimes cure long term diseases using medical drugs, medical procedures, and medical devices. To increase life expectancy and growth biomedical science is a necessary step for humans and animals. Patients who suffer from long term diseases such as diabetes or cancer will have a higher probability to survive with the proper care provided by institutions equipped with the technology to treat them. As our medical technology develops we can obtain more advanced methods. Some of which include …show more content…
This data collection is used mainly by companies who sift through our web browser's cookies, chat logs, and e-mails. It is intended to be a convenience to the consumer because it allows advertisement from businesses to take presence on the web pages the consumer visits. When a consumer mentions in a chat log or an E-mail that they are looking for a specific item the computers who processes information for the purpose of advertising will place the best advertisements on the screen. It also helps law enforcement catch potential dangers to the people using the same algorithm. Data collectors flags certain keywords in the consumers data that may be a sign of danger. Many consumers would argue that data mining is an invasion of privacy because they believe the data they view or hold is their …show more content…
Mobile/ Communication / Consumer Electronics
Within the last one hundred years communication between two people on the opposite sides of the Earth have tremendously improved. A hand written letter from America could take up to several months to reach the hands of its recipient in Europe or Asia. Nowadays terabytes of data can be sent the same distance in nearly in instant. Cell phones and the internet have connected people from all parts of the Earth. I personally have been able to turn a pen-pal who lived in Sweden to a valuable friend thanks to the technology we posses today.
Although it has been able to connect people all over the world to each other it has created a distance between personal encounters. There has been an increase of people who would rather be connected to their social media outlets rather than spend quality time with their friends in person. People prone to their smartphones or tablets can be seen in restaurants and casual places. I have also experienced instances where my friends or significant other focus' a significant amount of their energy on their smartphones rather than the people in front of them.
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