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These are all end of life decisions that must be talked about, so that one’s family would know what to do in case of a situation involving any of these. CPR is a procedure used when someone’s heart stops or breathing stops (Understanding Advance Directives, 2006). DNR is a written order signed by a physician to stop healthcare teams from preforming CPR. This is only done by the request of the patient and can be cancelled at any time (Understanding…

Over the span of time humans have inhabited the Earth, we have constantly innovated to come up with new solutions to issues that we have come across. Technology can be a wonderful thing, but it begs the question: just because science is able to create something, should it? Some of the inventions that started out being created for the sake of knowledge or innovation are capable of being used for nefarious purposes A prime example of this is the ability to split atoms apart, the process by which…

Industrie 4.0 is a new and very big subject and can be defined as “creating a virtual copy of the whole company with all its structure and processes in the cyber space”. With the integration of different object like machines, products and humans and their ability to communicate with each other opens an endless list of possibility for actively and automatically intervene into the production process. However the author thinks that speaking about a revolution is not quite correct as Industrie 4.0…

What is it? It is artificial intelligence. When people go to a movie theater, they can easily notice various films based on artificial intelligence. In the past, almost all movies which were dealing with artificial intelligence on humans contained a battle to take over the world between human and computer. In those movies, people’s threats on artificial intelligence were reflected and amplified more and more. However, according to movies regarding AI, cognitions on artificial intelligence are…

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suitable for unpatterned movement such as dancing(“prosthetic limb”). The prosthetic arms are a step behind the legs. “He's mastered the use of his prosthetic feet, playing offense on his high school soccer team and sprinting for the track team. But artificial arms, he says, were annoying because they were heavy and made his own arms sweaty. He's adapted to life without them”(Weir 10). Designing prosthetic arms is very…

It is the devastating reality that nearly two million people are currently living with limb loss in the United States. I am writing this proposal to the Amputee Coalition, because I believe that it is time to research cheaper prosthetics for these two million people. Your average prosthesis can cost anywhere from $3,000 to $50,000, and it isn’t fair to those already possessing a disability. I write this because I plan to work in rehabilitative engineering, and want to build prosthetics that…

The Nothing That Is, by Robert Kaplan is an intriguing book that focuses on the history of civilizations and their ways of counting. It focuses on the struggles and revolutionary discoveries of different civilizations in their number systems. The book is pushed forward by focusing on the concept of the number “0” which had not been a thing or even a thought then. Zero has been in the making for thousands of years. It wasn’t introduced into any of the civilizations sets of counting until more…

The way society thinks of Artificial Intelligence is absurd. Most people look at technological progress from a business perspective, namely, how can we profit from it. Some more pessimistic approaches may compare it to an uncontrollable snowball, where progress ultimately gets too fast and unstoppable. There are many ways to interpret the future of technology; however, Catherynne M. Valente proposes a new path for A.I. (Artificial Intelligence) that has not been explored yet. In Valente’s…

Advancements of Prosthetics Over the Years 1 in 190 Americans are currently living with the loss of a limb, in the year 2005 1.6 million people were living with the loss of a limb (Langtree,2016). Therefore, prosthetics have advanced due to the change to lighter material, the change in mobility (movement),and the design has become more productable and useful for the amputee. “The evolution of prosthetics is a long and storied history, from its primitive beginnings to its sophisticated present,…