...Over the past few decades, Star Trek has influenced our society with the unique jargon, futuristic technologies, and the ethical issues that are presented throughout the show. Although it seems unrealistic that a science fiction entertainment franchise may teach us about present day life and endeavors that we may encounter in the future, Star Trek successfully does exactly that throughout it’s many television episodes and movies. In ”The Measure of a Man" (season 2 episode 9) and "Ethics" (season 5 episode 16) from Star Trek: The Next Generation, some of the most evident characteristics are the issues we may encounter in both robotics and the new technology in the medical field. Through the situations the humans, Klingons, and androids encounter on the Starship Enterprise, we are able to see the different opinions people have around current and future ethical issues. As intelligent technologies and robots quickly advance and become more apparent in our everyday lives, we must have a good understanding of what rights these technologies have and in what just ways we are able to use them. Star Trek: Next Generation does an excellent example of presenting this issue in “The...
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...The popular media I have chosen is 3D technology. The introduction of 3D started back in 1844 with the invention of the stereoscope by David Brewster. It was a device that could make a photograph three dimensional. Ever since then the world has fallen in love with the idea of 3D. Since 1844 there have been eight different incarnations of 3D, from the basic red and blue glasses all the way up to the digital stereoscopic television channels that broadcast in 3D 24/7. Let us fast forward to the “Star Trek” generation. With popular television science fiction programs depicting holographic images popping out for the characters to interact with, came a major push in the 3D department. Until then 3D had been majorly disregarded as it was expensive to use and not many theaters were equipped with the technology. Although previous incarnations of 3D were bulky and awkward, the new innovation of stereoscopic 3D has brought 3D back in a big way. Stereoscopic 3D has made 3D a part of our everyday lives now. No longer is it something that is reserved just for movies. We now see movies, television, and even virtual reality video games all being made into stereoscopic 3D. Soon it will be a basic feature of televisions and computers, much like color is now. Future applications of 3D could even evolve so far as holographic imagery that would have major military and personal uses. It is this writer’s belief that 3D has finally made its way into our everyday life, something that will become as commonplace...
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...in a pocket We already have the beginnings of this technology in our world today. A battery the size of a cellphone battery but the thickness of a Styrofoam plate has been developed by an inventor here in the US recently. If coupled with some form of pocket clip solar collector it would be limited to voltage and wattage for small electronics only but virtually unlimited as far as replenishable usable power. Benefiting from this would not only be a society that “demands” faster technology with a more reasonable price tag to make their everyday life easier, but the business world as well would reap rewards. Those businesses that relied on field equipment utilizing small power technology could stay in the field longer, travel farther and complete their job quicker than with older equipment previously used. This would relate to more profit to the bottom line, customer retention increases and employee retention due to less job stress. A win-win for everyone involved. The only downside to smaller technology items is progressive use of automation for manufacture and the loss of jobs in the workforce. • The development of a “transporter,” similar to the one used on “Star Trek,” that could ship both goods and people across the street or around the world cheaply and instantaneously A transporter to move goods and people whenever and wherever needed on this planet or even to another destination in space would make a huge positive impact on society in the way we deal with relationships...
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...works.” When Steve Jobs said this he was already one of the world’s superpowers when it came to technology. The perpetual idealist was right. Technology has become part of our everyday life. Technology is a ticket to things that many people though they could never do. This reigns true especially for people with disabilities. For a person in our day and age, technology can open new horizons and provide a quality of life and experience that they once could never have dreamed of. However, technology, like any change, can create unforeseen problems and barriers. Technology today is in a grey area in many ways. iCloud, Google, and Windows, are the basis for what is to come. The ability to store all information and services from one centralized location over many devices is imperative for technology to work seamlessly. The fact of the matter is that as these various companies grew, they became more and more competitive. In the early days of Silicon Valley, the companies communicated more and were willing to provide support to one another. Today is a different story, Apple, in 2010 dropped its partnership with Google, the two companies parted ways and so did many of the services we loved. The world of technology has become world money, money, and more money. Technologies aren’t talking to each other and it is creating huge divides in people as they use these technologies. Technologies have made it possible for deaf people to communicate, for blind people to be better able to see...
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...1963 in the assembly hall at Paulskirche in Frankfurt, Germany said: "For time and the world do not stand still. Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future." Health care technology has come a long way from the past, the present, and is definitely moving on into the future. It seems that only yesterday many of our parents were watching the "Six million dollar man" and "Bionic Woman" on television and "Robocop" on the big screen with all this innovative medical technology leaving them in total awe. For the younger generation there is the futuristic equipment used by Dr. "Bones" McCoy in the Star Trek TV series and movies. Little did those who watched the films and TV shows then, know that all of these "ahead of its time paraphernalia" would soon become part of their everyday lives. Future of Health Care Technology Advancement in health care technology is moving at a very fast pace in the world today and there are no signs that in the future it would slow down. Computers have provided technological advancements in every field, but in the field of medicine, this advancement has been very noticeable. Many have been witness to the numerous changes in health care technology in the last decades. Patients have noticed how with special software now available used to create and maintain paperless medical records has allowed for the immediate access to all their medical history. In the office this special software...
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...A Machine to Think for US When I was nine or ten years old, Dad and I would watch reruns of the television show Star Trek. Back then, I would have never imagined that so much of the “technology” in the program would become a reality. Talking, thinking, responsive computers and tiny personal communication devices, for example, just seemed like science fiction. Now they are not only a reality, but they are an indispensable part of everyday life. I can hardly imagine the developments in technology that my children will experience. Thinking of the future and trends in technology, at this time I believe there is almost no limit to what humans are capable of creating. Technology developments happen faster and faster each day. This is especially true for computers, both personal and business and industry based models. My first computer was Commodore 64 and it was a neat thing to have but it didn’t do much. After I joined the Navy, I worked with an aircraft guidance radar system that was powered by a UNIVAC computer. In fact the Navy somehow kept that system running well past the year 2000. Now, we have progressed well past these dinosaurs. Computer developments are the wave of the future, and development in that respect will shape events worldwide. Moore’s Law, formulated in 1965, predicts that the number of components in an integrated circuit chip will double every 18 months (Shahan, 2013). Considering the power of computers today, if Moore’s Law continues to hold true, the...
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...Being a Health Care Management Major, the product I chose to introduce internationally is related to the medial field. Anyone who lives in the world today knows that technology is becoming a way of life. It seems that no one goes anywhere without their smart phone in their pocket and a GPS in their car. A field that has been completely changed by advances in technology is the medical field. No longer due doctors take ones temperature or blood pressure manually, they have special devices that can give a more accurate reading then a human ever could. Hand held medical scanner technology is showing an astonishing breakthrough and can revolutionize home and hospital medicine just as the home thermometer did. These types of devices have already improved the way care is given in the U.S. greatly and can do the same for countries all over the world. The two countries I chose to enter are ones that have been growing rapidly in almost all aspects, China and India. Handheld medical scanners are a real product being used but are very new and do not have much of a history or a company that solely produces them. So what are they? According to David Freeman in the Huffington Posts article “Star Trek's Tricorder Medical Scanner May Become Reality, Thanks To Nanotechnology Breakthrough,” using nanotechnology, physicists in London and Singapore found a way to make a beam of the "T-rays"--which are now used in full-body airport security scanners--stronger and more directional. The advance...
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...licences (for reprographic reproduction) may be obtained from the Copyright Licensing Agency Ltd of Saffron House, 6–10 Kirby Street, London, EC1N 8TS. A catalogue record of this book is available from the British Library ISBN–10: 0335 218 13X (pb) 0335 218 148 (hb) ISBN–13: 9780 335 218 134 (pb) 9780 335 218 141 (hb) Library of Congress Cataloguing-in-Publication Data CIP data applied for Typeset by YHT Ltd, London Printed in Poland by OZGraf S.A. www.polskabook.pl Contents List of illustrations Acknowledgements 1 What is media theory? What are media? What is theory? What is media theory? How to use this book Behaviourism and media effects Introduction Lasswell’s chain of communication and propaganda technique Wertham: Seduction of the Innocent Cantril: The Invasion from Mars Cultivation theory Agenda-setting and social functions of media Two-step flow and the phenomenistic approach Uses and gratifications theory Summary Further reading Modernity and medium theory Introduction Innis: The Bias of Communication McLuhan: the medium is the message Benjamin: art...
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...Course Title: the impact of communications technology on business Course Code: BTEC Level 3 – Unit 33 Assignment Number 1 LCB Student number LCB/1949 Student: ABDUL WAFI BIN ABDUL RAHMAN P1. DESCRIBE HOW THE INTERNET OPERATES The Internet is the largest things in the world where it includes a lot of different sections and many different selections of unknown explanations. Most of the unknown explanations requires into detail of the Internet itself. Firstly, Internet is a linked network of computers that provides full access to the worldwide web. Worldwide web (WWW.) is a system that allows people around the world can fully access the information that been put into the website. One of the example of website that mostly been visit by everybody is www.google.com, which is the website that been use to search all the information that a person need. In my presentation, I will discuss about the use of the internet that will improve our business. Internet is the faster method that can be used to promote our product because people nowadays like to use the internet to find something that they want and the information that they need. People just need to sit at home and holding their iPad or sitting in front of their desktop surfing the internet looking for the product that they want through the our website. It our opportunities to use internet to improve our business. We put our product in the website with the price and the detail of the product. People also can pay the...
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...Course Title: the impact of communications technology on business Course Code: BTEC Level 3 – Unit 33 Assignment Number 1 LCB Student number LCB/1949 Student: ABDUL WAFI BIN ABDUL RAHMAN P1. DESCRIBE HOW THE INTERNET OPERATES The Internet is the largest things in the world where it includes a lot of different sections and many different selections of unknown explanations. Most of the unknown explanations requires into detail of the Internet itself. Firstly, Internet is a linked network of computers that provides full access to the worldwide web. Worldwide web (WWW.) is a system that allows people around the world can fully access the information that been put into the website. One of the example of website that mostly been visit by everybody is www.google.com, which is the website that been use to search all the information that a person need. In my presentation, I will discuss about the use of the internet that will improve our business. Internet is the faster method that can be used to promote our product because people nowadays like to use the internet to find something that they want and the information that they need. People just need to sit at home and holding their iPad or sitting in front of their desktop surfing the internet looking for the product that they want through the our website. It our opportunities to use internet to improve our business. We put our product in the website with the price and the detail of the product. People also can pay the...
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...The Present, Future and Ethics of Nanotechnology Marlon Green Writing 122 Vincent E. Lasnik December 7, 2010 Word count: 1871 The world has embraced nanotechnology with open arms. What once was science fiction, something you watched on Star Trek is now a global reality. Majority of us have not even noticed. Whether you are a CEO of a multibillion dollar die cast company, a heart surgeon, an auto repair shop manager, a drug company representative, or even a house painter. Nanotechnology will impact you. This is not just a new range of technology but a new social force. The family of Nano scale technologies, like numerous other perilous issues of our time, stands at a stage of choices for human ethics. The concept of Nano scale technology begins with the boldly speculative nineteen fifty nine speech “There’s Plenty of Room at the Bottom” by Nobel Prize winning Theoretical physicist Richard Feynman. In the speech he said he was not afraid to consider the question whether ultimately in the great future, we can arrange the atoms the way we want (Feynman, 1959). Scientists in the beginning had meant Nano machines of some sort that would be able to build desired entities atom by atom (Molecular manufacturing). Today nanotechnology can be more broadly viewed as the contemporary result of a natural downsizing progression in nearly all the sciences and there techniques. Nanotechnology is the study and control...
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... | |John C Johnston | |8/7/2012 | | I hope this time capsule finds you doing well and enjoying the Earth. That would mean that we figured some things out and managed to | |preserve this beautiful planet for your use. I would like to share what my day to day life is like in the year 2012. | I hope this time capsule finds you doing well and enjoying the Earth. That would mean that we figured some things out and managed to preserve this beautiful planet for your use Your Final Project for this course will be a virtual time capsule. A time capsule is a grouping of items for future discovery. For our purposes, we will imagine that our time capsule will be buried at the end of the course and opened 100 years later. The goal of our capsule is to provide an overview of what you believe future generations should remember about the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. The project can be composed in Microsoft Word or PowerPoint. It can include multimedia if you wish. It should include the following eight...
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...“Think Different” commercial, 1997 HIS SAGA IS the entrepreneurial creation myth writ large: Steve Jobs cofounded Apple in his parents’ garage in 1976, was ousted in 1985, returned to rescue it from near bankruptcy in 1997, and by the time he died, in October 2011, had built it into the world’s most valuable company. Along the way he helped to transform seven industries: personal computing, animated movies, music, phones, tablet computing, retail stores, and digital publishing. He thus belongs in the pantheon of America’s great innovators, along with Thomas Edison, Henry Ford, and Walt Disney. None of these men was a saint, but long after their personalities are forgotten, history will remember how they applied imagination to technology and business. In the months since my biography of Jobs came out, countless commentators have tried to draw management lessons from it. Some of those readers have been insightful, but I think...
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...Case Study Mob War: “Google V/S Facebook Mobile Ad Revenue Shootout” Submitted By: Amaan Ansari ABSTRACT With the advent of tablets and smartphones the mobile advertisement segment has got a shot in the arm like never before. Initially termed as unnecessary cluttering of the device has entered a whole new dimension it seems as the latest reports by a World Wide Web giant, Facebook, suggest its success. So is the mobile advertisement heading for happily ever after? Reports by another World Wide Web giant, Google, suggest otherwise. The case takes into consideration the popularity, inherent qualities and limitations, pricing, challenges and scope of improvement of mobile advertising with respect to two biggest contributors to this segment i.e. Google and Facebook. So what exactly is the scenario? Let’s find out. INTRODUCTION Advertisers in the online realm are spoilt for choice. They have the option of utilizing large sites or a plethora of specialized websites, both large and small, to reach consumers with varied interests. However, few plans can be complete without including the big daddies viz. Google or Facebook - or both - because their sheer dominance on the web. In India, their combined estimate comes out to two-thirds of the total advertising moolah. In 2012, Google’s earnings were almost $44 billion from advertising worldwide as compared to marginally over $5 billion for Facebook. The latter is significantly smaller but plays a special role in...
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...provide an explanation, or at least plausible reasons, as to why such a theory of space-power has yet to transpire. First, we shall discuss the difficulties involved in creating a theory of spacepower that is able to endure the test of time and that has universal applicability. The chapter then examines recent attempts at theorizing on spacepower by James Oberg, Everett Dolman, and John Klein. Lastly, the chapter outlines what a theory of spacepower should look like, and just as importantly, what it should not look like, as a guide for future theorists. It should be noted that an exhortation of an "Alfred Thayer Mahan for the final frontier" is not to be confused with an endorsement of a Mahanian style of theory. Such a style of strategic theory may yet suffice (for the present, at least) for the purposes of guidance for spacepower, but we do encourage all plausible methods of elucidating a theory of space-power, be it directly influenced by the thought and style of either Mahan or of any other strategic theorist. Instead, the call for a Mahan for space-power is in fact a call for a theory that can match the stature of Mahan's collected thoughts on seapower. This chapter uses the word strategy in an unashamedly Clausewitzian sense, and for clarity of meaning we offer up a definition of strategy as well as spacepower. Strategy is defined here as the use that is made of force and the threat of force for the ends of policy. 3 This definition is preferred because it takes into account...
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