nano, james zavala week 9

Nanotechonology is interesting. I do agree that people have been going overboard with things regarding nanotechnology. Other people have abused nanotechnology which is horrible because then it undermines the great possibilities of nanotechnology. After a while nanotechnology will only be seen as a joke in the sense that if everything bares the name then it will no longer be anything special. The fact that creams abuse the name without knowing what it really means actually erkcs me in the sense that people are devoting a lot of their time and attention to nanotechnology for the better of things. I don’t deny that there are some people are utilizing nanotechnology for no purpose but I have hope that there are others out there that will use it to benofit mankind. There are already many advancements that are due to nanotechnology like the nano camera that are used in patients to view there insides and determine what is wrong with a person. There are also the nano chips that fit on the tip of a persons finger tips which is lightweight. Although it may seem that the idea of having nano chips may seem too extensive, if one thinks about it it can be used for many great things. In my mind I think about putting it into a pill which has a computer inside of it that will benefit a sick person one way or other.
I didn’t really understand the whole buckminster fuller thing. I love his work being that he focuses on nature and the fact that it is more stable than things that are manmade. Then I realize the fact that nanotechonlogy is manmade then I realize the fact that they may be looking at buckmionster fuller in the sense that they want to make it successful like buckminster fuller did with his attention to nature. They might then focus on nature when they try to develop any new ideas in nanotechnology to make it prosperous. Nanotechnology can be used for many reasons which will hopefully be applied to great reasons and others wont abbuse it for rediculous reasons. Then again we don’t live in a beautiful world.

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Allen Wang Section 2 - Robots, A Second Age of Technology?

Technology has always been second nature to man since about a centruy ago. Technology has really affected our live for the better and for worse. Robotics had made life more efficient and well as more pleasurable. Yet, we are always in doubt of whether robots ever develop their own subconscious mind or that the human race would grow more lazy because of its dependancy on the robots.

As robots has become to represent humans more and more, we can see how advanced technology has become. Soon, robots will respond not just to a remote control and some buttons, but they will become somewhat independent and would act on their "own will." Robots will still be a tool that humans woudl utilize, but as robots create their own wills, the wrodl woudl become a more dangerous place. Computers and other advanced technologies have always been known to degrade and glitch. Because of the unlimited amounts of possibilities of scenerios that can occur, we, humans, can never determine what woudl happen when technology becomes to advanced for humans to handle.

With the wide range of robotics avaliable now, our life is very dependent on technology. Heck, even this post and this blog would not have been created without the help of technology. Technology has shaped our lives so much that we cannot even imagine a life without technology. As such in this picture, we can see an almost primitive technology compared to the technology of a human robot. This technology would have been very advanced just a few years ago.

In addition to creating technology, humans have become deft at manipulating technology as well. Such manipulations can be seen during circuit bending. With this manipulation of sound, new innovative creations can be created. Circuit bending brings out the creativity of its creator and can turn a very dull piece of intrument or toy into a very complex and interesting tool that creates an assortment of sounds, none of which are exactly identical. With unlimited possibilities, humans woudl continue to discover ways to entertain ourselves with anything and everything.

Technology has created a sort of mystery in the lives of humans. With technolgy, everything is possible and we can look forward the future with the anticipation of the unknown. Never knowing what can be created, we can only rely on the imagination of the creative mind of humans to shape the future of humans.

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