Blog #6

My first source is called Technological Visions. The book basically explains the hopes and fears that shape new technologies. I choose this source because it looked intresting when i read it in the Technology Matters and when i looked up the source it was intresting. I believe this book was perfect for Nye's book. Because it talks about the good and the bad about new technology and thats what the controlling purpose of his book is anyways. I dont think it would complicate his book since it is pretty simple when talking about new technology. My second source i could not get it at the moment because i have it on recall so i can come back and add my second source when i receive it.

Blog #3

The focus on the essay to me was to introduce technology in a good way and the negative way. I choose to construct my essay in the way that i give a fair response in a good way and the bad way about technology. I didnt take my time when i wrote the essay. I do like the ideas where i am going with it but i do have to expand it and by expanding it i am getting more ideas about the same things but in a more depth way. I didnt do the peer editing online but i like the face to face editing where i can see the person if they really want to help me or are they just writing on my blog because they have too.

Blog #2

" Told him Papa was dying in pain. Cancer of what. Cancer of everything"(185)I choose this quote because it is different i believe from anyone elses quote. When I read this first i wanted to know why he said cancer of everything. What does that mean. Is he not loved so he has cancer of love, or things like that in that nature. I found couple of other quotes but this one is so different that you can intrepert it in many ways. I for example had cancer of english when i first came here. I thought i was never going to learn it because i needed to learn it quick and fast. I know it might not make sense to some people but having cancer of everything doesnt just mean medical as Vonnegut explains. I wonder how Vonnegut thought about it when he said cancer of everything.

Blog #8

Well my first idea for my research was to do about how technology has affected the car industry. I was thinking about more and more if that's what i wanted to do and i came up with another idea that has affected me personally. How did technology affect the war and how its fought today. Because I have experienced a war for 2 years and i know how it is. So i think this is a perfect topic to do. Because i know somewhat about it but i don't know the technological advances and I was affected by it personally so it would make a great topic in which i can get deep into. I would put myself as a survivor and a witness so i can give a opinion that some people who just search it online or how they think it would be.

Assingment #5

In chapter 4 Nye talks about How Henry Ford created the T Model automobile. His goal for making the T Model was for the farmers. It could benefit the farmers because they can drive to town and get supplies, or carry things to town. The competition couldn't compete because the heavier steam cars sank into the mud, and electrics could seldom be recharged. Only one farmer out of 15 had electricity. By making the t-model, the farmers could use it to their advantage and in 1926 Almost 90% of the farmers in Iowa owned a T-model. Since then Ford sold almost 15 million T-Models. Because of the success of the T-model, Ford started to invest money into service stations, mechanics and car dealerships. Also other people started to open their own stores where you can buy tires, batteries and parts for the cars. Nye uses this in his book as a big technological advancement. Also his point was that the electric car failed because it was very hard to charge and gasoline at that time was cheap and easy to get. When reading the books over and over to get a better understanding i find it funny that in the early days of car making we tried to go electric and didn't work. It didn't show instant success that the t-model showed so they went to making cars that was using gasoline and now when they are trying to save the environment they are creating again the electric, hybrid and other environmentally friendly cars.
"In 1926 78% of the world cars were in the United States".(61 Technology Matters) That is a high number of cars in the United States. Also in that same paragraph it also stated that for every 5 Americans one had a car while in Germany for every 100 Germans one had a car. When Nye talks about this subject he gives his pros and cons but it doesn't seem he involves all the stakeholders in this subject. For example other companies and competition of the t-model. He used only the farmers in his point and not the rest of the general public. For example which car was better for the people in big cities. That was where I thought he lacked to expand his argument.
My other source a book called Technological Visions. He also talked about it in his Acknowledgements of the book Technological Visions. This was an interesting source because in the book he talked about his mother at 93 who has gone through the whole technological phase is now sending e-mails and before technology the easiest way to sent information was on a horse.(184 Technological Visions). Also Nye takes a quote in the book which states that "Even though I believe that our advances in telecommunications are creating a Mind that will combine all of our minds, I don't believe that individual human personalities will be subsumed into this vast organism"(224 Technology Matters). When first reading this i was kind of creped out by wanting to combine our minds together. When he talks about the peoples personalities will not be in this project it got me thinking will there not be a technological advancement for that in the future. If he is stating it can control our minds why not our feelings and emotions. Nye went simply to the point with this quote. He didn't further explain it he just simply took the quote and illustrated it to explain that not allot of people believe in computers rather than all our minds will be as one. Nye could explain more about what the author was thinking in that sense. Because Nye didn't further detail it and i was left questioning myself whether i was taking the right perspective of the quote.
The stakeholders in this chapter or book are the people who are creating new technology, who believe that this could happen in the future(which i think is crazy), people who are willing to fund these projects, and telecom companies. He is not taking the general public's perspective on this matter as this is the case in every other matter that we are discussing. I don't think they take the general public's opinion on the matter. I again think this is crazy to be thinking that our minds in the future could be linked together but not our personalities.
I'm closing down on couple of topics. One is about the America and the Automobile. I was interested to find out that so many t-models and so many farmers choose to buy the car in that time. I want to find out what the other general public drove in those times or was it only the farmers that drove the t-model.
The second topic which i stumbled on while reading for one of my sources was about Nikola Tesla. Some people may not know but he means allot to the Serbian people and he is celebrated in Serbia as being one of the greatest inventors. I want to further my research on why Nye used Nikola Tesla in his texts. Nikola talked about many people argued that by creating new guns and weapons that war would be unthinkable but as we seen in the future and our history it just progressed to something we are born with.( Fighting between one another)