Final project

In the movie Sleep Dealer the director is trying to make us aware of the danger of technology in our near future. Even though this is a fiction movie they are many similarities to what is happening in today’s world. For example we routinely use drones in battle, jobs are performed by machines and by workers outside the country that we never see and every day millions of people post their daily life activities for millions of viewers on internet.

In the film, one of the characters is a virtual pilot who “flies” the plane that kills Memo’s dad safely from a command center in the USA. In today’s military we have being using this type of drone technology since the beginning of the Iraq war. Pilots are safe in the USA while they fly their missions, but the critics have said that this type of technology can also lead to many errors like the reported bombing of the 14 civilians in Afghanistan. Those in favor of drones say the main benefit of using drones is the safety of our service men. While others say the program is flawed and is subject to computer, human and mechanical errors. Just like the movie a mistake is made in bombing Memo’s house as a terrorist target even though Memo was listening for fun to his radio.

Every day we are reminded that many people are losing their jobs to machines like in NYC where recently token booth clerks have been replaced by Metro Card Machines and automated entry gates at some train stations. The world that Alex Rivera’s has created has already come true with the many automated factories all over the world. I recently saw a video of a fully automatic factory that made pizza pies a food dish that everyone has only seen being made by hand. You cannot call a company up without going through a machine first before you get a real person and I have not had to go inside a bank for the last several years due to online and ATM banking. Just the other day I was doing some holiday shopping and my call was handled by someone in India. In the movie the factory foreman says companies get Mexican immigrant labor without any Mexicans. I say we are already on way there.

I bought myself a smart phone for my birthday and now I can take a picture, make a video or write a blog and with one push of a button send it all over the world. I and millions others do it because it’s a way of sharing our lives with each other not because we don’t have our own lives but because we enjoy the connections we make in sharing.Luz sold here memories for money because the people in her world had no lives of their own as they were disconnected from each other because of all the technology they were hooked up to. Besides Luz had to be truthful in her writing something we don’t have to do. Reading other peoples post can be an escape but it’s not the only escape we have. In Sleep Dealers, the people who lived in the cities and worked in the factories had no other escape from their routines because they had no time for anything else and plus the government controlled most of their lives.

The Sleep Dealer and real life have some things in common such as using technology to further business, to increase military weapons and to control our lives. More and more we see how technology is taking control of our military, business and personal lives. Today we see how companies can conduct work by using emails, faxes and teleconferences without ever being present.

                                                      Resources

  I used these links to find out about recent problems concerning drone use.

http://diydrones.com/profiles/blogs/military-drones-beset-by?xg_source=activity

http://www.cleveland.com/world/index.ssf/2010/07/military_drones_beset_by_probl.html

I tried to find the number of US Pilots killed in Iraq to illustrate how safe drone are but I was       unable to do so. This link was all I could find.        http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/war.casualties/index.html

Outsourcing and automated factories

http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/06_05/b3969401.htm

This video was interesting to me more than all the car factory videos I found

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/7733602.stm

Social Networking

Didn’t have to dig deep for this one as I have a facebook, myspace, twitter and of course my very own blogspace account

Visualization

     Today is December 2, 5:30 in the afternoon and I am outside the door waiting to take today’s CAT test. I cannot believe how excited I am at the prospect of doing well on the exam. The professor arrives at 5:40PM and asks us to come in with a big smile on his face. Immediately I sit down ready to go and I take out my reading glasses, dictionary and my two pens. Next the professor begins passing  out the blue books.I start reading the passages with a positive attitude and I choose the passages dealing the current pat down controversy. Whether we agreed or disagree on the new ways airport security is handling passengers security .I began writing without stopping and m ideas starting flowing from my head and on to the paper. The professor announces the time and it's now 6:40 and I was already writing my conclusion. I finished up happy because I have completed my work the best way I know how to.

4.3

   Nicholas Carr, the Author of The Shallows states that Google provides the ability for many people to find too much information very quickly. He also states that “Who doesn’t love Google’’. At the same time he claims that what Google is doing to our people is bombarding them constantly with messages and other facts and that people no longer need to think. Google is encouraging us to think superficially and is making people  shallow and causing them to not use the power of their  brains to their full potential. As a student at LaGuardia Community College, I totally agree we the author Nicholas Carr because Google has made it easy for everyone and I can say that I don't" use" my brain as I did before Google.

   Before when people need it to search for information they used to go to the Library and really did the researches for themselves,but now as no need it because Google has everything available for you with toms of information that some time we don't know what to pick.So why not love it. In my opinion the majority of people in today’s world think that the majority of information that they getting is all true. How we know which one accurate just because is there available doesn't meant true.For example, nowadays if we asked a body a particular subject they don't have an answer instead the response is Google. People no longer stole important information like the way people did in the pass.Another example of that is that we can not memorized  facts, phone number, dates,  like the way we did.

   Google is also a big negative influence on our new generations because children don’t have any more imagination ‘’why have it” if our children only need to Google all the facts, pictures, words. When I was in school I remember drawing beautiful pictures, or coloring then, but now the only thing children due is Google print, cut and paste and print, so I don’t think that the new generation is really learning like the way we uses to learn before. What this is doing to our children as like the author states is creating children with shallow brains. That for me is very scaring.

  What people really needs to start doing is to pay more attention and allow the brain to work for what it is for. Even though Google has provided us with very useful information with all the facts. What we can do is take our power  back by minimizes the use of Google and maximizes the use of brain cells.

  In conclusion even thought Google is a good tool to obtain information I believe we should use it is part of overall knowledge instead of the main source of information.   

Sleep Dealer Cat 5

The Sleeper Dealer was a very interesting movie which showed similaties to the other two movies we have watched in class right away. In The Sleeper Dealer three strangers join forces to break free of the technologies which are controlling not only their lives but that of everyone on the country. The main characters break free by the same technology that was controlling them and turning it around on the government and allowing everyone to be free.

    In The Truman Show, the main character was raised in a TV studio in which everything around him was a setup and his actions were filmed and televised although he had no physical connections to his body his entire world was being manipulated daily. His entire life was happening underneath of a big dome until he started to notice things weren’t right and he decided to exercise his free will that he was able to break free of his environment and the control he was living under.

   The Matrix movie we have another situation where Leo one of the main characters was persuaded to see and enter the world where technology was controlling his life .Leo learns that the Matrix controls everything and the world he lives in is fake but he fights to help destroy the matrix.

    Nowadays if we don’t pay more attention we will be controlled not as directly as is in the movies but in a way which doesn’t feel like control. For example we are being replaced in the work place with new technology. No longer are we able to speak to a human operator, but rather we speak to a electronic operator first. Another example is the recent news that New York City Transit Clerks are being replaced with new automatic machines. Even our banking is slowly being controlled by technology with teller less banks and ATM’s.

   My question to all us is what is going to happen when technology starts to take control of more of our daily lives and jobs. I just wonder what could happen next ?.

CAT # 5

 

     According to Larry Rosen’s passage he states that he is a strong advocate of children using technology such as Internet and mobile devices to do their school work. He also states these types of technology works best with preteens and teens as a teaching tool. However he also knows that children spend too much time plugged in and this can led children to have health problems like obesity but he has come up with a formula to help balance this problem out. I disagree with the Dr Rosen’s point of view that children cannot be denied the use of technology just because it helps them develop and grow.

         I strongly believe that all this types of technology are ruining our children in the way they interact with each other, the down grading of their writing skills and lack of outdoor activities drop. Children no longer interact like the way we did when we were children. Nowadays children no longer care if they are around other children or if any contact with each other. Interaction has become very limited and impersonal. When I was a kid one of the things that I enjoyed the most was having that physical contact with all my friends I couldn’t way to talk about what had happen in the school.  

    Today children seem to be writing all the time, but are they really writing? Yes they are writing in a way that doesn’t teach them to write in the proper way because most of the messages that children receive and send are not full sentences rather they write with code and most of the words are abbreviated. I don’t think these children are going to become good writers.

    For as long I can remember children use to spend so much time outside playing with their friends and we never saw the amount of obese children as we do today. Why play basketball outside when you can play sitting down on your couch. When teens play outside they learn techniques that are involved in all types of sports. By playing outside sometimes is the only way you can learn how to play a game also by trying and falling is the way children learn and grow up healthy and we a positive attitude.  When children play games at home they don’t learn consequence to the actions.

Technology is here to stay with us for their remainder of our children lives and beyond.  We cannot stop our children from using it for their school work however it is important to allow our children the use of this technology with some limitations. Sometime simple ways of learning can also be effective tool to learn

     

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FAST FOOD 3.4

 
   According with article Happer's Magazine the reason why many of these companies likes to target a poor inner city communities is because many of this consumers are not aware of the risk by eating this type of fast food could bring .for example many studies have show that these companies like McDonald's, Burger King, Krispy Kreme have streaming grown because they main focus is to increase development in areas like where lower income families live. I totally disagree with these companies main concern to over feed our inner city communities like the one I saw on television.

     About two months ago, I saw a program base on how much fast food had poisoned our children. They pick a particular are in the Bronx where many of these fast food are located in each corner in other areas are next to each other for me that was quite disturbing now I can understand the reason why this companies choose that specific part in the Bronx' and that is why has been re name is over weigh community. The blame for all that over weigh population is to the amount of food that people consume is just because they made it so convenient For instance the author Greg Crister states that when the lower income get off work they into high gear about five P. M  to get a quick bite to eat. These meals are ship in convenient to the workers. The workers might get unhealthy because they eat this all the time. This should be a concern for all us and we should try to help to educate these communities especially with them the school system so our new generation learned how to made better choices.

   One of the thing that our mayor Michael Bloomberg has done is to put pressure on all these fast food industry where they need to place the calories count on each of items on the menu, so when people desire to eat in one of these places they can see how many calories that item contains. For me that can be a good thing because if we can pay attention to the amount of calories that one of these meals represents people wouldn't be so over weigh. If we can add to that people don’t exercise or do activities what is going to happen to our future generation. That is a question that we all should have in mind.

     Fast food is going to stay we us for the remainder of our lives so it it time to educate our new  generation that way children begin learning what is the best way to eat. The best way to educate our children is through the school system because children eat breakfast and lunch at the school. In fact, children would learn how to eat if the school provide them we a good healthy breakfast and a nutrition lunch. Also another way to teach our children is with the teachers they would have a better change introducing them the value of fruits and vegetable and the danger of eating fast food.


    In conclusion these companies don’t care how much damage has done in the long run. They over feeding by super size the meals and the main target is our lower income communities. We need to be more aware what we eating and help educate our communities.