Artificial pacemaker

In the Star Trek episode, the artificial life form Data meets someone who claims to be his mother. It is eventually revealed that the woman is in fact an android and not his real mother. Data finds out that the biological woman who raised him is dead, and the person Data met is an android replica of his mother who believes that she is human and not actually an android. After Data is aware of the situation, he has to make the decision whether to tell his mother the truth or keep it a secret.…

1. My Professor’s definition of a computer is an electronic and or phonetic technological device repository of data and information with adaptive archival and retrieval methodologies. 2. D.I.K.I. is an algorithm developed and published by my Introduction to Technology professor, Doug Lauffer. The letter D is for Data, which is the numbers, words, pictures, or sounds that represent facts figures or ideas; the raw input that user have at the start of a job. The second letter I is for Information,…

In the July 2017 issue of Reason, the article, “Are Robots Going To Steal Our Jobs?” written by Ronald Bailey elaborates how technology is not killing our employment, but evolving and improving it. Bailey explains that for centuries people have worried that advances in technology would cause problems with unemployment; however, every time, more jobs seem to be created. He states that humans will always work, but that jobs might differ from what they are now. Pointing out another issue skeptics…

Some may ask of the importance of robots without knowing how much they make use of them daily. Robots are able to undertake assignments that humans are incapable of doing, such as extremely tedious, or just larger tasks that require time that most people just do not have. Writer Kevin Kelly, in the article Better than Human, explains the way humans and robots interact, and how humans will continue to grow heavily dependent on them. Robots are given the jobs that humans are incapable, or just do…

The world of artificial intelligence is advancing at a rapid rate with robots becoming increasingly human like everyday. Advancements in these technologies requires us as humans to understand the benefits and the ramifications of introducing this scarcely understood technology into our everyday lives. Blindly allowing a new form of intelligence could be potentially catastrophic if not fully understood as the stability of these technologies are yet to be understood. Within Isaac Asimov's story…

In the article “Will Artificial Intelligence Eliminate My Job?” written by Rod Koch (Strategic Finance, 2017) the author examines the influence of Artificial Intelligence or AI to the labor force through a series of his experience and analysis. I enjoyed this article because it discusses AI, one of the hottest technology trend today. I find the article’s title is the same question that has been asked by many people, including myself. I certainly agree with the author about the impact which AI…

The Technological singularity, when computer/human interfaces will become so advanced they’ll be known as superhumanly intelligent, shares the same concept in the book BlindSight by Peter Watts published in 2008. “Maybe the singularity happened years ago. We just don’t want to admit we were left behind” (BlindSight 50). In the book BlindSight, technology faces a new interchange that elaborates on how technology and humans come with inlays that adorn insertions and surpasses the intellectual…

The hoverboard is a fairly new invention and has been known by many names, such as the hoverboard, sagway, and self-balancing board. Hoverboard looks very similar to a typical skateboard, in the respect that it operates on two wheels (See Figure 1). However, unlike a typical skateboard, hoverboards operate electronically instead of manually. Since the appearance of hoverboards in the feature film Back to The Future, hoverboards have been a futuristic fantasy for millions across the world. Once…

In “Is Google Making Us Stupid?” Nicholas Carr sheds light on what are the affects of internet on our brain focusing specifically on how it has changed our thinking process. He also asserts on the negative effects reading on the internet has engendered. The author expresses that sometimes he feels as if someone is tampering with his mind causing it to change. He is thinking in a much different way and he can notably experience it while reading. He can’t really concentrate on reading and his…

Mapping the Brain, written by Sharon Begley, focuses on how the brain has specific tasks for each of the divided sections. In the article, Begley (1992) uses an analogy to explain how different regions of the brain have distinct roles and are in control of different tasks. Specifically, the brain is compared to a map. Begley (1992) declares, “[The maps] will show . . . where in the brain cognition, feelings, language and everything else that makes us human comes from” (p. 66). This means that…