Educational technology

Acemoglu and Robinson make great strides in the institutional argument from North and Thomas’ start in Rise of the Western World. Their case is quite compelling in addressing the question of why are some countries so rich and some so poor. It’s appealing mainly because it all boils down to incentives: if masses are incentivized, a country will grow, if the elites alone are incentivized/hold the power, a country will stagnate. This argument is almost impossible to refute because it’s built on the…

the Western world. At the same time we are becoming more and more entranced with science and technology, what the ancient Greeks called τέχνη (Techne). Most people walk around with a fairly advanced computer that we call a smart phone. We now drive “Smart Cars” that have all the latest gadgets. Medical advances assist the human family in living longer and healthier and for most people science and technology are usually seen as “good”. Very few people seem to be concerned with the technological…

The immediate problem TD is facing is that consumers’ preferences are changing based on the upgraded technology nowadays. The underlying problem is that TD cannot satisfy all consumers’ needs. By analyzing the internal and external environment, Porter's five forces and PEST show TD are suffering lots of external threats (Appendix 2, 3); Diamond-E suggests that TD prefers to using new technology in its products and services at the same time(Appendix 1). It is more advantageously for TD to catch…

meet their expectation the person rejects it and may even be revolted by it. The driving force behind Pixar is not creating realistic worlds but exploring new worlds through believable characters and stories. Pixar is aware of the limitations of technology but they constantly try to push beyond it. One of the guiding philosophies Pixar followed for Toy Story (John Lasseter 1995) and other films is product essentialism (Herhuth 48). Product essentialism is a philosophy that every product is…

Martinsen English V01A Catastrophic overhauls of technology In the novel Feed, by M.T Anderson, he expresses how much technology is changing all individuals to more of a controlled robotic creature. “Feed” is the chip implemented in the people’s brain, it is in them while they are developing so it is easier to manipulate their brains, about seventy percent of the population has is it and they also believe if it is ejected from them that they will die. Technology is depleting human interactions…

Only a few benefits in this world are more sought after than money, power is one. With enough power, any person, bright or dull, rich or poor, can change the world to their liking. In the book, Ender’s Game, Locke and Demosthenes are good examples of how individuals acquire power efficiently and use power effectively to make the world a better place. Even though Peter, also known as Locke, and Valentine, also known as Demosthenes, of Ender’s Game are young…

3.A. What are the major characteristics that should be achieved before a social organization qualify to be considered as a civilization? Civilization is often defined as "an advanced state of human society, in which a high level of culture, science, industry and government has been reached." Civilization can only take place in a context of “states”. Decision making does not only takes place within a home and between family members, but it takes place in a centralized power-structures where…

It has been about 14 million years since mankind came into the world. In that long period of time, human beings have been continuously producing knowledge. The prompt said “The main reason knowledge is produced is to solve problems.”, and I mostly agree with it, but first I will discuss this statement from different perspectives using the examples from Natural Science and The Arts . In Natural Science, there are many inventions that were discovered to solve a problem. Many of today’s inventions…

Brain Science will Change Communication Mode Communication has long been a significant issue. Although human has created language to help they get the mind of the others and the Internet makes transmitting information faster and more convenient, communication is still imperfect. For example, it is almost impossible for one to share feelings, image and memory in their mind integrally. Actually, people have to use literature,music and many other forms of expression to express themselves. But…

Mass Surveillance in Modern Society “We need more cameras, and we need them now” was a headline run in Slate Magazine (qtd in Proctor).This is what the world has come to- being obsessed with cameras. Every country is installing surveillance technology which decreases the employment rates for those areas and is more expensive. Although there are many positives, do they outweigh the negatives? Cameras are increasingly invading people’s private lives which is considered to be a violation of…