Tamagotchi

scientists and engineers are studying how to develop new smart machines, sociologists are truly concern about the bonds that can be created between humans and these robots given that humans can create connections between small pieces of technology as a tamagotchi. The ethical issues that surround the relationship among humanoids and human beings were widespread by Isaac Asimov in the book “I, Robot”, but Asimov’s rules are extremely simple-minded to the environment of modern society (3). The…

Both articles, Cathy Davidson’s “Project Classroom Makeover,” and Sherry Turkle’s “Selections from Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other,” illustrate the educational innovation in combining both technology and education. Both authors incorporate different learning techniques, and finds one to be better than the other. The text from Turkle’s “Alone Together” focuses on the effectiveness of individuality and personalized learning against customization and…

Heroin is flowing in the streets of the suburbs that surround our schools, where teens and young adults are dying of overdoses daily. I am talking about the heroin epidemic, a silent disease that has risen yet again. There is not enough awareness nor help for opiate addiction and the users that succumb to its temptation. Heroin use has drastically increased 63 percent over the past decade, and with that the overdoses have doubled (Curry, 2015). It is a common misconception that heroin is…

The first origin of hypertext is microphotography, a method of condensing documents, which were stored in a massive library. A massive library, so people could send in questions, and the workers would field their responses, giving related topics as well. The second origin, is referred to the Memex; an idea that it would somehow be possible to digitally condense information on a computer, so it can be used at any time, by the use of free association. This was supposed to augment human…

I think Turtle’s book, Alone Together, is a challenging and enlightening book. In the first part of book, The Robotic Moment, the author discussed about if robots can make up for the inner loneliness of people by giving abundant examples and cases about digital creatures, sociable humanoid robots, and companionable robots. Some kinds of robots and related studies mentioned in this part are novel to me and also bring some new ideas. In the second part, Networked, the cases are closer to our daily…

Mahatma Gandhi once said, “A nation's culture resides in the hearts and in the soul of its people.” This could not be more accurate because the people of a nation make up their own culture. Every nation in this world has a unique culture onto its self. Not one nations’ culture is totally and completely the same as another. There is only one reason for that, it is the people who live there. The people who live in these different nations have numerous things that make them special. The…

Being Alive Enough and Its Impacts on Human Relationships Being alive enough surpasses the standard quality of being an ordinary individual because a person’s life doesn 't qualify one to be alive enough. The human definition of being alive enough depends on how one feels about a closest living object. However, the quality of being alive enough does not depend on bearing life in the real sense. The most significant concern is the semblance that the subject living thing or non-living thing…

Flaws: Internal and External The day I found my rash, I did not know it would be a life long struggle. I remember my family telling me that it was just a rash and that it would go away, it never did. It may not seem like a significant problem, but at 7 years old it was. This led me to see that everyone has their flaws, big or small. The morning that I had to go back to school with my new addition, I was terrified. Would my friends still like me? Would I be treated differently? Would they…

ignore the ramifications of violence (Nelson, 300). In “Selections from Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other,” Sherry Turkle claims that when children spend a lot of time around life-like toys like Furbies and Tamagotchis, children experience a shift from a “psychology of projection to a new psychology of engagement” (Turkle, 290). In “The Ecstasy of Influence: A Plagiarism,” Jonathan Lethem discusses the gift and market economies and how they overlap in…

strongest leadership in “IT revolution” and rapid economic growth in China enhanced the depressive mood of “the Lost Decade”. However rumors of popularity of Japanese cultural products overseas, such as electronics for entertainment like Nintendo, Tamagotchi and PlayStation among others, revived Japan's confidence. Anime, manga and music were also increasingly gaining attention from abroad. Some examples are Studio Ghibli movies, Pokemon, etc. 1 Japan started gaining…