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LIB200- Blog #9 Final Reflection

My perspective about science and the humanities has somewhat changed from the start of the course because I didn’t look at big image. The critical thinking blogs did help me understand the course a bit more. With the blogs I was able to go back like they are my notes of certain things to help me with my essays. I also view other blogger and they could construct things a tad more clearly. It helped me understand subjects in the course. Science and technology is used for everyday in human life. We use phones, computers, ipads etc to connect to the internet. We also go to work and school, socialize with peers and associates. Blogging is a way to communicate where we talk and learn about news and others. To say that blogging is a way of modern technology and in a means a word of mouth epidemic. I am more optimistic of science and the technologies because I studied it in course for three months. I also can say that I am a person of both science and humanities because I use it daily, need i
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LIB 200- Blog # 8

I feel that the responsibilities of a scientist are to make sure that they are able to control their work and know that there will not be an outbreak. It is to secure the existence of humanity. The scientific progress of having something go wrong is always a possibility. The reason for it is to check if there is opportunity of something new whether its life, or disease. It is the likelihood of knowing if something can be done to protect man kind or go against it. Science has unintended consequences. Take Futurama exhibit in the World’s Fair for instance. It was to benefit the American people after the war. It was supposed to improve lives and technology by having automobiles, superhighways, and a suburbia. The perfect world, a utopia but in fact it that would lead to global warming. Or take artificial intelligence for instance. Scientist built something that can completely one day take over humanity. One example of that is going online, making a profile and then entering a captcha a
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Critical Thinking Blog Post #7

This weeks blog I wanted to write it on a female scientist named Rosalind Franklin. With a short life span of thirty-seven years, Franklin was a distributer to the structure of DNA. She had a tough life growing up with the fact that she was a woman. At the time women where not taken seriously in the scientific field. She did not receive fair treatment but she was able to contribute an understanding of “essential roles in cells metabolism and genetics.” She was intelligent and the structure helped scientists understand how genetic information is passed from parents to children. During her life’s work she faced sexism and she was not recognized for her work. She did not always see eye to eye with her male scientist. Raymond Gossling took a picture of Franklin’s image of an x-ray diffraction of DNA. With out her knowledge it was distributed around to James D. Watson, Maurice Wilkins, and Francis Crick where Franklin was not recognized. She did help bridge both cultures between scienc
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LIB200 Assignment 5

The vision of a ‘perfect’ superhighway future in the 1939 World’s Fair was hype than reality as the fair created real problem with its vision of suburbia and cars. I agree with World’s Fair being more of propaganda to the American people. The World’s fair was to get people to become stable after the war. The vision was for anyone to have the American dream of owning their own home in the Suburbs and having a car. No one wanted a life of crime, hate, and to be underprivileged and that was the city life. It was full of “noise and fumes and shouts and shrillness and ambulances, drunks, fire trucks stuck in traffic, angry cops” (Gelernter 25). The streets were dangerous and no parent would want their child to grow up in a ugly, dirty and unhealthy environment. Living in the suburbs in the future would be “a place where people live in suburbs towns – where children romp in green fields, ride bikes and play softball… far away from the grind of city traffic, the filth of city gutters, the dan
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LIB200 Assignment #3

For my research paper I want to do something that I feel is an opener for many people. I am torn between two different ideas for this research paper. The first idea, being a close reading analysis. I enjoyed a glimpse of the World’s Fair and its technological portrayal of technology and suburbia. How people wanted to live the American dream of owning a house and a car. Also how people desperately needed work and the World’s Fair being like a business for those who needed employment after the war. I can also compare it to global warming and how it could have affect the world more than helping it. The second impression is the “Popular Science” which is research idea number four. For this idea it would be based on two different cultures that I would explore. It could be science and the humanities being a authoritative idea. The book that I would choose for the paper would be The Tipping Point: How little Things Make a Big Difference by Malcolm Gladwell. This book has many different
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LIB 200- Assignment #4

In my personal view for blog number four, I believe that robots have become acceptable to most people. I say this since technology is used every day whether it be a bus, car, train, cellphone, laptop, computer etc. In my eyes I see them as technological robots that are needed to be used by human in order to work but at the same time it may not always be the case. I believe it to be a start to surpass (maybe) human intelligence. I also think that a reason robots are accepted because they are an achievement to people; similar to the promise for the future of software agents. Robots or any kind of artificial intelligent technology gives me both the ‘awe’ and the fear of robot technology. I look at films like the Terminator which is comparable to a post-apocalyptic film for humans in which robots (terminator) have surpassed human intelligence which is the fear for this kind of technology. The awesome part is again what human have accomplished with bare hands and mentally. Also, the 19
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LIB200 blog 2

Popular science today seems to amuse people of different perspectives. It has become known on TV, in books and films. Writer Edward Rothstein of the New York Times believes that today, science is worn into popular entertainment which I agree it is. There are so many things that deal with scientific problematical issues that scare people. Honestly it is awesome but it really doesn’t go into that scientific field of what science in reality is. It is fine to gain knowledge of innovative things, especially when there are movies like of mass destruction or the man kind/world coming to an end but where the theories are. For example District 9, a science fiction movie of aliens which are inspired by scientific possibility. It is believed that the government is hiding secret chemical that scientist have been trying to use to gain control and power or an experiment gone wrong. Science gives me a sense of initiative roles. Wikus van de Merwe, is a manager at the MNU Department of Alien Affairs.
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