war and radios

The whole FM Radio timeline of like evolution was kind of interesting. I had no clue at some of the problems that they ran into with all the new steps that they took. The coolest thing that I found was how much money some of the inventors made. For instance Armstrong made some much money not just cash but stocks and if you think about that that’s worth a ton. 60,000 plus the other 20,000 shares is huge when you’re the lead inventor in the company and know it will grow. That makes the value of the share exponentially valuable.

            Just the impact that radios have had on the world and society is so vast. They have been used for so many different uses. Starting at page 100 when they used the FM radios for communication in the war I had no clue the United States did that. They did not really get into it a lot but radios have also been a huge social icon throughout history. Before TVs were really big and as cheap as they are now compared to before everyone listened to radios. Also back the radios were made a little different then they are now.

            As I read more and more War time had a huge impact also on advancement in technology. When I got to the part of the book around page 142 about the Atomic bomb I got very interested. All the technology like this really gets my mind going. It is true that Pandora’s box was opened with the a bomb.
I found it really cool that they brought in all the different people that did big things in the fifties and sixties. There was a lot in here that I only knew little bits and pieces about. Know I know in detail things like on page 164 how they talk about how they designed the pocket radios to only last no more than 3 years. This is the entire basis of this book that products are made inferior so that they are “Made to Break”.  When will the day come that we no longer have to deal with products that will be obsolete or made so that they will not last and people will have to spend more money on new products. I see good and bad in these ideas. By doing this it causes me and everyone else to spend a ton of money on stuff that we know won’t last. On the other hand this allows for advancements in technology that would be slower if there wasn’t this money being poured into the industry and this cause companies to keep advancing. So here is my question for you, do you think it is positive or negative when products are “Made to Break”?

Technology

The waste alone of how many electronic are throw out is crazy to think about. It
becomes more and more aparent that the united states has a desire to find more
advanced technology. On page 3 when they start to talk about 3g cell phones it
gets me excited because I know that soon the new iphone comes out for verizon.
This is the next step for the company.
The term on page 9 of over production is something interesting to think about.
They said how its one of our biggest problems but I don't think this is that
kind of problem anymore. When we over produce product we sell it all over for
way cheaper and now a days the united states buys many of our goods from other
countries The introduction of disposible products for men and women was a great
step to take. By doing this it helped to solve so many problems. The antithrift
campains were a complex battle between people who wanted thrift and did not want
it. America getting more interested in paper goodes really helped the anti
thrift campains. I do not want to even get started talking about new models
every year I hate that.
This is something that cost me so much money having to buy new products every
year to stay with the new and best out there. This leads to the part of the book
where the clash of values is. It is so try that products are under designed when
they come out every year. In no way is a year enough time to design and test new
technology. This is why we get stuck with products that have so many bugs. Also
designing for style is cool but should not be esentiacial for tecjnology
products. Now this is by far the best book so far we have read. I normally would
say that product addiction on page 47 is irrelivant but its not. I can't go a
second literally without having my phone on me. On no chapter three completely
lost me. What is businessmans utopia this is crazy. My question of the day is do
you think that products being producted advances or slows the advancement of
technology down.

next up for wikipedia

Yes we love Wikipedia I find it as a great source for some many things. It is very beneficial when you’re trying to figure out quick fact and etc. chapter five once again states when posts go up and the same as the other chapters and its kind of getting annoying. “The freedom to write whatever we want” is a great way to express your own individuality. Some of the points of why we like Wikipedia I do not agree with. Like some of the reasons I do not think really generalize why we like it. The equality factor of Wikipedia is great this is because knowledge is knowledge. It is true that you don’t have to be a genius to make a helpful comment. This next idea is a huge issue with the internet. Anyone can pretty much same whatever they want to a certain extent. Just the devastation that words and information over the internet can cause can be horrible. There are so many different cases where people have gotten hurt to the point that it will vastly impact their life. The trust factor of Wikipedia is one of the biggest questions debated about everyone who interacts with this encyclopedia. The freedom factor of being able to say and write what you want, because inevitably it will lead to false information being posted. Times are changing and Wikipedia is becoming a new source of reliable information. They are implementing more and more way to review the input. Also the site is growing credibility like any site. It takes time to grow into the “it” site. The “it” site are sites that people all know and use. My question for you is what will happen next in the world of Wikipedia? Will the site continue to grow and prosper or will some other new site take over?

not alone

Are we alone in the vast size of space or are there others out there. Space is so large and now we finally found a planet that is very similar to our own planet. It is crazy to think that there could someday or already be life forms on this planet. The planet could eventually change the life of people on Earth. If someday we out grow this planet or pollute it maybe we could go live there. This topic is a huge interest to me because I am a very logical person and anything new interests me. I hope that sometime in my lifetime our society makes many more advancements like this. Anything that can make life a little different is really cool to me. There are places in the universe that we cannot even see and the amount we haven’t seen is by far a lot larger than what we have seen. There are so many things that can come from this. This is the start of something great for the human race. It is almost unfathomable that how crazy this is. Like its just crazy that there is possibly someone else out there and only 20 light years away. If you really think about that distance in space is really not that far. There are stars way further away then that planet so maybe sometime we will send and exploration to that planet. I hope it is sometime soon so maybe I can see if there is actually life on that planet. Just thinking about this gets me really excited. I just get like pumped to hear news like this. There is so much that can come from this. Maybe the human race will start a new space race because of this. This new finding is in perfect time with the start of our new space program.

Wki What Where & Why

It is a marvel to see how Wikipedia spreads and connects information so quickly. I remember when you could make any changes to the site that a person felt they wanted to make. Over time this site has evolved from being a site where teacher would fail a person from citing from but now that Wikipedia is monitored and all inputs are checks and filtered for legitimacy the cite is not so looked down upon. The style this book is writing in is a very interesting one. I like how in the first chapter the author consistently talks about different events that have happened and helped to make what Wikipedia is. I grew up seeing Wikipedia evolve but one thing I never knew about is where it came from. It is cool to see that it is modeled after true real life encyclopedias. I would consider Wikipedia to be the new style of encyclopedia that fits the internet boom of the 21^st century. I had no clue that Wikipedia had its own “traditions that the site was based on. I always new encyclopedias cost a lot but never knew that cd-rom versions started at 1500 dollars. This book literally gives the entire history of encyclopedias I feel like this book is kind of like the actual site. The only negative thing I see with reading this book I at times get lost with all the different names from people who are or are not important in the creation of Wikipedia. The quote that starts off the third chapter really emphasizes what Wikipedia really does for everyone. It is a treasure chest of information where people can now find information about just about anything on Earth or even not on earth. The only down fall is that anyone can try to put any input they want onto the site. Most links and info on the site is now monitored bur certain stuff can still slip through. There are many reasons why people use Wikipedia. Will Wikipedia someday take over for every other encyclopedia out there? What could be the implications positive or negative of Wikipedia?

is this book almost over

The more technology advances the more we can do with it. There are all kinds of different things that could be created in the future. The biggest and one of the most important fields that technology would be the medical field. Each advance in the medical field saves lives more and more.

            More and more computers are becoming as important as medical technology is to society. It is crazy to see how it keeps advancing more and more everyday. Technology is like an exponential formula. Every year technology grow by bigger leaps and bounds.

The whole invisible technologies are crazy. To grasp how they are actually real is really weird. I guess it is kind of cool though by how it affects society. It’s interesting on what it can do by what is does.

Scientism is a very interesting topic. I do not like how he keeps going into The New York Times as a source. I feel like he is trying to advertise for them for some reason. Doing thins really takes away from the strong points that are in this book.

Compared to the previous book the previous one is much more interesting to me. I liked the other one way more than this one. This book really bores me there is only. How do you think that the Technopoly of the world will advance technology or does it hinder it?  Can it really lead to new advances or not at all?  All in all technology is changing the world. There are so many ways that it changes everything. I just can not wait till this book is over there is relatively no interest in this book. Hopefully the books to come will bring some joy in my life lol because this is a really fun class.

Technopoly is a monopoly

Wow this is not the book for me. I am really into technology and everything but this is not my forte. The whole Thamus and the legend I felt was kind of pointless. I understand that he pretty much was the start of the Technopoly. I guess what Thamus did can be compared to things of today. Like how TV is so big in the United States. I was really interesting how he put out there how investors create great inventions but they don’t understand how these inventions affect society. The affects that they cause can be very great depending on how the invention impacts the people that use it.

I never looked at why inventions are doing sometimes. Like in chapter two things are sometimes created to go with the time period. It is cool to look at how the Stone Age Bronze Age etc happened to happen because of they were the norms.

I am kind of getting confused more on more about the authors views only confused by if I agree with what he is saying. He uses so many different people to put across his point of view but does not show it that well. I agree that technology does affect how government runs and everything but the whole where did it all start is impossible to pin points. No matter what it is impossible to do unless you go all the way back to the start of time. This is because what is technology now is way different from what is down there.

I found it hilarious how he talked to some of his colleges and did so called experiments on them. It was funny how they reacted to the different things he said depending on how he wanted them to react.

His statement “Technopoly is a state of culture” is a big statement (71). In todays culture technology is everywhere. Life is in every way changed and affected in some way by technology. How will technology affect culture next will it get stronger or will it be weaker I think it will no doubt be stronger.