Finals Discussion Question

annie_narvadez wrote: i think what's wrong with technology is that it will benefit really those who are lazy! that's all.

quite true…but I guess, technology is beneficial for all of us…

In November of 1999 Randice-Lisa "Randi" Altschul was issued a series of patents for the world's first disposable cell phone. Trademarked the Phone-Card-Phone®, the device is the thickness of three credit cards and made from recycled paper products. This is a real cell phone (outgoing messages only) with 60 minutes of calling time and a hands free attachment. You can add more minutes or throw the device away after your calling time is used up. However, with the planned additional magnetic strip the cell phone would double as a credit card, swipeable for purchases with free airtime credits as a bonus. The retail price of the invention should average twenty dollars, with a two or three dollar rebate for returning the phone instead of trashing it.

Altschul thought up the invention after being tempted to toss her cell phone out of her car in frustration over a bad connection. She realized cell phones were too expansive to lose or throw away. After clearing the idea with her patent lawyer and making sure no one else had already invented a disposable cell phone, Randi Altschul together with engineer Lee Volte, patented both the disposable cell phone and the super thin technology (STTTM) needed for the Phone-Card-Phone and other intended products.

The 2" by 3" cell phone will be manufactured by Altschul's Cliffside Park, New Jersey company, Dieceland Technologies. The entire phone body, touch pad and circuit board will be made of paper substrate. The paper-thin cell phone uses an elongated flexible circuit which will be one piece with the body of the phone, part of the patented STTTM technology. The ultra thin circuitry is made by applying metallic conductive inks to paper.

This is such a good development. If the production of these cell phones are implemented throughout the world then this will make convenient communication practically available to everybody even to those people from third world countries.

arlynne.awayan wrote:FUTURE SHOCK!

Research on technologies being developed today that can affect the way we live tomorrow (eg. robotics, nanotechnology, etc.). How will these technologies change us?

i've heard about this technology being developed in Israel, a voice-activated search.
Here some part of the article..
"The Globes [online] site from Israel has a brief article about Maestro, voice-activated search technology, being developed at Ben Gurion University of the Negev.

After the search has been executed, the results may be heard either as a list of websites, or by subject. Using voice commands, the user can navigate to the desired site, and listen to its content."

By having this kind of technology, perhaps will be a start of something really new in the internet. If this technology will expand, then advertisers could do voice advertisements through internet.

But there is also a disadvantage regarding this technology. Like for example if this technology will expand then some peole might be too dependent on this technology. They might be too lazy to browse internet using the mouse or whatever command required except for that voice-activated technology.

We should be responsible in everything we do, we should also be disciplined in using the things we have, because maybe, just maybe we would regret something at the end..

arlynne.awayan wrote:FUTURE SHOCK!

Research on technologies being developed today that can affect the way we live tomorrow (eg. robotics, nanotechnology, etc.). How will these technologies change us?

Here is a technology that could help the government or those people that is involve in this situations..
There have been a tehnology developed that could detect bombs even with out the dogs that is usually used in this thing. Its a laser technology that find bombs. Below is an article about it..

Rather than using the superior smelling techniques of dogs, air port security will soon be using sophisticated laser technology to find bombs:

A Scottish company has developed sensor technology which it says can “fingerprint” explosives and could be used in airports.

Cascade Technologies believes its system, which uses a laser-based sensor to detect explosives, is at a “critical” stage and is seeking government support, the BBC reports.

The company, which was spun out of Strathclyde University in 2003, says its quantum cascade lasers are more effective at detecting gases in the air than trained sniffer dogs.

The article goes on to say that this technology could be put in place within two years, which is a pretty fast track indeed. Even though it claims that it can out-sniff dogs, it doesn’t say to what degree.

This technology would be really helpful for everybody, especially nowadays that there had been many bomb threats in different countries, like our country for example. With this technology they could detect bombs with using the smelling techniques of dogs. This will be very useful for them.

And if ever, after years this technology would be available for everybody, even those usual citizens, if they'll learn how to use this technology then it will be easier for everybody to spread this technology and be used by everyone who knows how to use it.

raycharlesdelagua wrote:

medo_domingo wrote:

arlynne.awayan wrote:FUTURE SHOCK!

Research on technologies being developed today that can affect the way we live tomorrow (eg. robotics, nanotechnology, etc.). How will these technologies change us?

Industrial robots are somewhat underrated in today's society, but the world owes much to the productivity and quality measures imparted by robotics. Their effect on future generations may well be the assistance they provide in manufacturing faster computers, more intelligent vehicles and better consumer and health products.

some robots do not last long and some lacks the efficiency to produce that of a great quality and also because some robots malfunctions so it becomes a scrap metal hehehe...

i agree.. there have been movies about robots. robot technology needs a high maintenance because if you fon't maintain it, in years it will be just a use less scrap.
Though some of this robots had helped people if we'll not take care of it at the future this robots will be just trash..

jenpallesco wrote:

andrearebadavia wrote:

jpcolocado wrote:but machines still needs human operator... maybe lesser jobs but not exactky none...

good point! pero xmpre super konting effort nlang...cguro isang pindot, ans whaaalaaahhh! magisa n ang robot! hehe

hehe!! tama! wootwoot! one click away..
muka ngang la nrin maging participation kahit click man lang ang human eh..
haha asa na lang talga sa mga robots.. kya n daw nila un.. hehe

yah...that would be right. less participation of human. and it will definitely lessen the demand for jobs. that will affects our economy. we can see that everything has its consequences..right?

jefftenedero wrote:The tehnology was hypnotizing our mind.

somehow, some people are hypnotized by new technologies. Example are those people who always wanted new gadgets, like cellphone when a new brand or new phones w/ new features came out in the market some people can't get enough with it, and buy one for them even if they already had a cellphone of their own. Well, i don't really find it that bad but we should take into consideration everything. If you had the money its okei but there are people who don't have. don't find it negative but somehow its true..

Zero emission vehicle from Morgan
The green car will deliver on performance and looks as well as emission reduction

A wholly British partnership has unveiled plans to develop the world's first environmentally clean sports car, powered by a fuel cell which converts hydrogen into electricity.

The partnership is made up of legendary British sports car manufacturer, the Morgan Motor Company, QinetiQ, Cranfield and Oxford Universities, BOC and OSCar.

The new vehicle, known as LIFECar, will be ultra quiet and its exhaust systems will produce only water vapour. It promises a clean vehicle combined with sound motoring performance and stylish good looks.

Part-funded by the Department for Trade and Industry (DTI), LIFECar is a two and half-year long project which marks a step change in vehicle power technology, producing a combination of performance, range and fuel economy that will be essential to the motoring world of the future.

LIFECar will be based on the Morgan Aero Eight, and is powered by a QinetiQ-made fuel cell, which converts hydrogen – and oxygen taken from the air around it – into electrical energy. It will be clean, quiet and economic, and the only waste product from the car will be water. The car's power system will be incredibly efficient, producing significant improvements over current fuel cell prototype vehicles, with the fuel cell powering four separate electric motors, one at each drive wheel.

The key to delivering this step change in energy efficiency lies in a combination of factors, including weight reduction and a different design approach. This approach exploits opportunities across the vehicle to reduce energy losses and requirements.

Regenerative braking and surplus energy will be used to charge ultra-capacitors, which will release their energy when the car is accelerating. This architecture will allow the car to have a much smaller fuel cell than is conventionally regarded as necessary: it will only be as large as is required to provide cruising speed, approximately 24 kW, as opposed to around 85kW proposed by most competitor systems.


http://www.conceptcarz.com/vehicle/z14982/Morgan_LifeCar_Concept.aspx

technology really helped us a lot especially in mass production, accuracy, efficiency, etc. but i am worried because the great depression that happened in our history might happen again where people became unemployed because of the equipments and machines that was invented. yes it is true that machine can produce more than people can do in a short period of time but think of the people who will be unemployed if majority of the workers are already machines and robots.

joycetapan wrote:

jefftenedero wrote:The tehnology was hypnotizing our mind.

somehow, some people are hypnotized by new technologies. Example are those people who always wanted new gadgets, like cellphone when a new brand or new phones w/ new features came out in the market some people can't get enough with it, and buy one for them even if they already had a cellphone of their own. Well, i don't really find it that bad but we should take into consideration everything. If you had the money its okei but there are people who don't have. don't find it negative but somehow its true..

i think being so addict with gadgets like cellphone is a bad thing, because gadgets are just piece of metals, plastics etc we should control ourselves in the way we accept the technologies that are coming of the market.

joycetapan wrote:

jenpallesco wrote:

andrearebadavia wrote:

jpcolocado wrote:but machines still needs human operator... maybe lesser jobs but not exactky none...

good point! pero xmpre super konting effort nlang...cguro isang pindot, ans whaaalaaahhh! magisa n ang robot! hehe

hehe!! tama! wootwoot! one click away..
muka ngang la nrin maging participation kahit click man lang ang human eh..
haha asa na lang talga sa mga robots.. kya n daw nila un.. hehe

yah...that would be right. less participation of human. and it will definitely lessen the demand for jobs. that will affects our economy. we can see that everything has its consequences..right?

you are right joyce, more robots less human force and will increase the percentage of unemployed people and will result to bad economy.

joycetapan wrote:

raycharlesdelagua wrote:

medo_domingo wrote:

arlynne.awayan wrote:FUTURE SHOCK!

Research on technologies being developed today that can affect the way we live tomorrow (eg. robotics, nanotechnology, etc.). How will these technologies change us?

Industrial robots are somewhat underrated in today's society, but the world owes much to the productivity and quality measures imparted by robotics. Their effect on future generations may well be the assistance they provide in manufacturing faster computers, more intelligent vehicles and better consumer and health products.

some robots do not last long and some lacks the efficiency to produce that of a great quality and also because some robots malfunctions so it becomes a scrap metal hehehe...

i agree.. there have been movies about robots. robot technology needs a high maintenance because if you fon't maintain it, in years it will be just a use less scrap.
Though some of this robots had helped people if we'll not take care of it at the future this robots will be just trash..

that is why people are more important compared to robots, machines can work alone but at some point in time it will need some repairs, and robots are useless if it is not functioning well.

andrearebadavia wrote:

harlymaylumagui wrote:

arlynne.awayan wrote:FUTURE SHOCK!

Research on technologies being developed today that can affect the way we live tomorrow (eg. robotics, nanotechnology, etc.). How will these technologies change us?

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For me this technologies will change us by making our human capabilities and talents unused and undiscovered.
It will make people lazier than ever. The more advance the world is, the less we use our own human capabilities.

very true indeed! though, on the other hand, they can make our lives easier..but we should alweiz be responsible of that so that these robots would not invade our lives, anywei....

that's what im talking about guys,, computers, robots, hi-tech machines are just things and instruments that we can use for accuracy and efficiency, don't let those things make us lazy and make our brains corroded.

Thirty years ago, a person who pondered robots would probably never have guessed that robot technology would be so pervasive, and yet so overlooked. A 19 year-old author named Isaac Asimov, who in 1939 started writing science fiction about humanoid robots, inspired some of the first popular notions about robots. Before him it was Karel Capek, a Czech playwright, who coined the word 'robot' in his 1921 play ''R.U.R.'' And even in millennia past, some folks conceived of artificial people built of wire and metal, even stone, known by some as ''automatons,'' or manlike machines.

Today, robots are doing human labor in all kinds of places. Best of all, they are doing the jobs that are unhealthy or impractical for people. This frees up workers to do the more skilled jobs, including the programming, maintenance and operation of robots.

A simplified definition of a robot is that it must be a device with three or more axis of motion (e.g. shoulder, elbow, wrist), an end effector (tool), and that it may be reprogrammed for different tasks. (This disqualifies most of the toy ''robots'' sold at stores.)

Robots that work on cars and trucks are welding and assembling parts, or lifting heavy parts --the types of jobs that involve risks like injury to your back and arm or wrist, or they work in environments filled with hazards like excessive heat, noise or fumes-dangerous places for people. Robots that assemble and pack cookies or other foodstuff do so without the risk of carpal tunnel injury, unlike their human counterparts. Robots that make computer chips are working in such tiny dimensions that a person couldn't even do some of the precision work required.

In the health industry, robots are helping to research and develop drugs, package them and even assist doctors in complicated surgery such as hip replacement and open heart procedures. And the main reason robots are used in any application is because they do the work so much better that there is a vast improvement in quality and/or production, or costs are brought down so that companies can be the best at what they do while keeping workers safe.

http://www.roboticsonline.com

Robots Keep the Economy Rolling
High-quality products can lead to higher sales, which means the company that uses technology like robots is more likely to stay alive and vital, which is good for the economy. In addition to improving quality, robots improve productivity, another key element to economic health.

To think about how robots might affect future generations, consider what happened a few hundred years ago when the industrial revolution began. For instance, in 1794 Eli Whitney invented the cotton gin, and later the concept of interchangeable parts for mass production of manufactured products. His inventions spurred growth in the United States, increased productivity in a variety of industries, and created more job opportunities as companies throughout the world adopted his technology and ideas.

In 1865 John Deere invented the cast steel plow blade, giving farmers a tool to greatly increase productivity. The light bulb came in 1880. The airplane appeared in 1906. Assembly lines, TVs, plastics, and many other inventions came in the decades to follow, further changing the face of the industrialized world.

In 1961, Joseph Engelberger sold the first industrial robot to General Motors Corporation, where it performed machine loading and unloading duties in an environment that was hot and dirty, and in fact dangerous to humans. That was 40 years ago...before personal computers and the Internet. A lot of technology evolved that helped make the industrial robot the affordable, successful machine it is today.

http://www.roboticsonline.com

FUTURE SHOCK!

Research on technologies being developed today that can affect the way we live tomorrow (eg. robotics, nanotechnology, etc.). How will these technologies change us?

Because of the development of machines Great Depression occured in Europe. Many Europian became jobless. Because of the machines many factory workers was terminated. Machines can do a lot of things than people but because of machine many people got hard time to get the work.

Robots, Computers To Help Phase Out Animal Testing
American scientists could use robots, cells, and computational modeling to test chemicals and phase out the use of lab animals, thanks to a multi-agency pact announced this week.
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The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the National Institutes of Health signed a memo of understanding to use new testing methods. The agencies announced the toxicity testing agreement Thursday. The details are published in the journal Science.

Two NIH institutes will work with the EPA to use the NIH Chemical Genomics Center's (NCGC) high-speed, automated screening robots to test compounds researchers suspect are toxic. The robots, created for the human genome project, could perform 10,000 cell screenings, using isolated molecular targets, each day.

NIH said the plan could generate data more relevant to humans; increase the number of chemicals tested; reduce time; and save money. Still, it could take years to validate the new testing methods.

"The experimental and computational expertise required to transform toxicology is an enormous undertaking and too great for any of our existing organizations to accomplish alone," National Toxicology Program Associate Director John R. Bucher said in a news announcement. "This collaborative approach allows us to draw on our individual strengths and establishes a long-term, multiple U.S. federal agency commitment."

NTP is expected to contribute thousands of compounds for testing and lend its animal toxicology expertise, as well as a large database of the chemicals' effects on animals. That will form a basis of comparison for the new cell-based data.

The EPA's involvement is part of its ToxCast program, launched last year use advances in computers, genomics, and cellular biology to improve efficiency of the agency's chemical toxicity evaluation procedures.

George M. Gray, Ph.D., assistant administrator for EPA's Office of Research and Development, urged other federal agencies and private sector companies to join the effort.

The memo of understanding provides a framework for long-range planning called for in a 2007 National Research Council report on modernizing toxicity testing. The report urges toxicologists to collaborate and rely less on animal studies and more on in-vitro tests on human cells and cellular components.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/cmp/20080216/tc_cmp/206504440

FUTURE SHOCK!

Research on technologies being developed today that can affect the way we live tomorrow (eg. robotics, nanotechnology, etc.). How will these technologies change us?

Technology is really a factor that can change the way we live ...its up to us how we will adapt different technologies..although it has an advantages and disadvantages...i think existence of it really helps us

Brit robots to put phone mast on moon

And to do some geology, possibly

By Mark Ballard: Friday, 15 February 2008, 3:33 PM

NASA HAS backed a proposal for an unmanned UK space mission to test mobile phone masts on the moon.

Called MoonLITE, it effectively trains British scientists on the task of
providing logistical support to future US lunar missions, and perhaps
doing some geological research while they are there.

The Brits plan to impregnate the moon with four "high-speed",
"missile-like" vehicles launched from an orbiting satellite some time after 2012.

The mission would "test the space communications network needed by future robotic and human explorers", said a statement by the British National Space Centre today.

It would also use instruments to map the moon's interior geology. NASA might stick its own experiments on the probes. NASA might also support the UK-led development of robotic lunar explorers.

http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/news/2008/02/15/brit-robots-put-phone-mast-moon

Get ready for a scary new world of life-enriching robot implants

Artificial intelligence will match the human intellect within a couple of decades, according to an inventor who predicts a technological revolution in which intelligent “nano-robots” work inside the body to stave off ageing and enhance the capacity of our minds.

Ray Kurzweil, a software engineer and futurologist, said yesterday that technology was advancing so fast that it would transform the way that people lived by the middle of the century, extending life spans, protecting against disease and even improving the biological hardware of the human body and brain.

Mr Kurzweil, a member of a panel that published a report yesterday detailing the great engineering challenges of the 21st century, said that the rate at which science and technology moved forward was doubling every two decades. This suggested that there would be 32 times more technical progress over the next half-century than in the last.

The rapid rate of progress would lead to artificial intelligence (AI) surpassing the power of the human mind and to nanotechnology allowing this to be incorporated in machines that could fight disease and reverse the ageing process, he told the American Association for the Advancement of Science conference in Boston.

for complete details visit http://www.timesonline.co.uk

FUTURE SHOCK!

Research on technologies being developed today that can affect the way we live tomorrow (eg. robotics, nanotechnology, etc.). How will these technologies change us?

Bacause of the Robots, our works became easier and faster. But in other hand, other become lazy.
For example in Japan there is an machine that you don't have to walk. It has a handle that you can control the direction and there is an tire. The machine operates through electricity. Before using it, you just have to charge its battery. Because of that machine, people get lazy. Their knees became weak because they don't walk that much.

Robotics technologies!
When it comes to robots, reality still lags science fiction. But, just because robots have not lived up to their promise in past decades does not mean that they will not arrive sooner or later. Indeed, the confluence of several advanced technologies is bringing the age of robotics ever nearer – smaller, cheaper, more practical and cost-effective.

FUTURE SHOCK!

Research on technologies being developed today that can affect the way we live tomorrow (eg. robotics, nanotechnology, etc.). How will these technologies change us?

A key robotics growth arena is Intelligent Assist Devices (IAD) – operators manipulate a robot as though it were a bionic extension of their own limbs with increased reach and strength. This is robotics technology – not replacements for humans or robots, but rather a new class of ergonomic assist products that helps human partners in a wide variety of ways, including power assist, motion guidance, line tracking and process automation.

FUTURE SHOCK!

Research on technologies being developed today that can affect the way we live tomorrow (eg. robotics, nanotechnology, etc.). How will these technologies change us?

India News
Faulty machines affect polling in 107 Delhi booths
Apr 5, 2007, 6:15 GMT


New Delhi, April 5 (IANS) Polling in Delhi's civic elections was affected in 107 booths Thursday after electronic voting machines (EVMs) developed technical snags.
A state election commission official said the affected booths were in 10 wards in Rohini, Jamia Nagar and Daryaganj.
'Over 200 technicians are working to solve the problem and we have already despatched new machines wherever necessary,' the official said.
Around 10,200 EVMs are being used at 9,949 booths for polls to elect a new Municipal Corporation of Delhi. It is the first time the machines are being used in the civic elections.
In Rohini Sector 9, polling had not started till 9.30 a.m. due to the EVM snag. Of the 16 booths at Jamia Milia University, polling was affected in 10 booths due to a similar problem.
'I reached the booth just after 8 a.m. but the voting machine was not working. I have been waiting for over an hour to vote,' said a student standing outside a booth in Rohini Sec 9.
Polling is being held in 272 wards of the MCD with 2,575 candidates in the fray. Over nine million people are eligible to vote.

http://news.monstersandcritics.com/india/news/article_1287385.php

ivanneyanga wrote:

jacquelynrosal wrote:The intelligent use of technology can make education better.But it has to be the intelligent use of technology and not just throwing any technology at the problem that makes a difference

I agree..there should be intelligent and wise use of technology for us to maximize its advantages..

Tama kayo..ndi nga siya basta basta lng.It has to be the intelligent use of technology.Dapat gamitin ang natin technology sa tama at wastong paraan.