Written by William J. Turkel, who is a professor in the Department of History at the University of Western Ontario, Canada, “Intervention: Hacking history, from analogue to digital and back again” is an exert from a journal that describes the benefits and usefulness of technology and how far it has come in the computer world. This section focuses on examples of ways that technology can capture and recreate certain smells and material objects. Various possibilities are examined by the author including the conversion of energy from one form to another and methods of transduction (Turkel 291). A couple of numerous examples that are used are examining the ‘smell of an old book’ or ‘digitally recreating a persons handwriting’ and converting that …show more content…
By knowing what digitizing an object or smell entails will also assist in comprehending the authors reasoning for his claims. He claims it is important to see all of the opportunities for practicing new forms of humanism where energy and information are transferred from a certain material to another one (293). By doing this, new evidence for studies or tools for the advancement of technology can be imagined and …show more content…
I thought that technology has come a long way in the last decade, but I am now aware that the next decade had endless potential for advancements that we have never even imagined before. On page 288 and 289 of the article, Turkel talks about recreating a persons handwriting and how transcription and optical imaging are only two of several options for digitization. The idea that we have only explored some routes into the manufacturing of a scent and we have already learned to much about really put me in awe. While only knowing a few characteristics of capturing and recreating objects, we can attribute the future findings that come from digital representations to the key advancements of
People all around agree that technology is changing how we think, but is it changing us for the better? Clive Thompson definitely thinks so and this book is his collection of why that is. As an avid fiction reader I wasn’t sure this book would captivate me, but the 352 pages seemingly flew past me. The book is a whirlwind of interesting ideas, captivating people, and fascinating thoughts on how technology is changing how we work and think.
Technology is evolving and growing as fast as Moore’s Law has predicted. Every year a new device or process is introduced and legacy devices becomes obsolete. Twenty years ago, no one ever thought that foldable and paper screens would be even feasible. Today, although it isn’t a consumer product yet, foldable and paper screens are a reality. Home automation, a more prominent example of new technologies that were science fiction years ago are now becoming an integral part of life. As technology and its foothold in today’s world grows, its effects on humanity begin to show and much more prominently than ever. In his essay, O.k. Glass, Gary Shteyngart shows the effects of technology in general and on a personal note. Through the use of literary
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How is technology seen today? The current conception of technology is that it is an activity of man toward some end. Heidegger wants to replace this correct conception with a true, free relationship in order to “open our human existence to the essence of technology” (QCT). By removing man’s insistent nature that sees only what is closest and most obvious, he remove his biases and preserves his “own special nature--that he is a meditative being” (DoT). By reminding man to think without insistence, we thereby bring him closer to the distant truth, that Being has multiple appearances within a single being, not just what appears ready-at-hand. Technology can further this thinking without insistence, but only if one primally sees that technology “must be understood as a way of revealing the totality of beings” in their capacity to be managed (QCT). This esse...
I. Introduction. How to use a symposia? The 21st century is the age of science and engineering. Along with the rise and sharp increase of modern technology, we also recognize that people are constantly developing more hacking technology. This provides a hacker with a bigger opportunity and bigger challenges.
...on the intangibility of the scent. Similarly, Rabbi Bleich argues, the bits of data travelling between two computers are intangible and therefore not subject to the laws of theft (Reichman).
Scientific studies have shown that there are physical and mental effects on the human body after using technology. Ac...
Week 2 research Assignment White Hat Hackers White hat hackers are known as a person who identifies weaknesses within a computer system or network. However, instead of taking advantage of them like black hat hackers do, the white hat hackers assist in exposing the weaknesses to the system’s owners in efforts to repair the weakness keep others from taking advantage of it. White hat hackers also recommends fixes to the owners. Many major corporations employ people like this to help keep their systems secure.
Ethical hacking, in my opinion, is just as much as an oxymoron as ‘constructive criticism’. Before I go on to show that ‘ethical hacking’ is but an oxymoron only in the literal sense, it is essential for one to understand the words ’ethical’ and ‘hacking’ - origin, meaning and the misconception. ‘Ethical’ can be defined as ‘working with high professional morals and principles’. The original hacker was a person who liked to tinker with software and hardware alike, enjoying and exploring the way the things work. They would tweak their subject to perform faster, better or differently than it initially did. There was nothing negative about being a hacker, until the word was repeatedly misused by the media, synonymising ‘crackers’ with ‘hackers’. Due to the common misconception, nowadays, the words have exchanged meanings. Originally, while hackers are the good guys, or ‘White Hats’, ‘crackers’ are the malicious hackers who break into systems for personal gain - fame, money, even revenge. Today’s terminology, however, has hackers as the malicious, while the ethical hackers are the heroes.
Over the years, technology has become a necessity in everyday life. Devices, such as computers, cell phones, printers, and so on, were invented to make it easier for humans to gather information, to communicate, and to keep one entertained. As technology advanced, people became fascinated with the new technology and wanted to learn more about it. Those who were experts in programing and altering software were classified as hackers. The term hacker was first used as a positive label in the 1960’s. During that time, the term was used to describe someone who is highly skilled, creative, and efficient in creating programs (Bachmann 643). In the current time, hackers are seen in a more negative light. Some hackers use their skills
Ever since it developed, there has been controversy over whether or not mechanical inventions benefit our lives. Doug Rennie’s article, “Faxed to the Max”, says “the timesaving devices we created give us more freedom to do what we want have instead imprisoned us in our own technology.” Although this may be true to some people, everyone has the power to resist technological devices. People can chose to use these tools to enhance their lifestyles, like they can chose to use a hammer or a saw for a project; they don’t necessarily need it, but it would save time and energy. It is the ability to mistreat these inventions that makes some people uneasy towards about using technology in their daily lives. Although it can be abused in many ways, technology used properly is a tool that aids in education, health and communication.
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In the 21st century, we live in the era of technology-driven world. Humans never stopped the development of technology, because we always have a natural tendency to pursue a higher level of human being. Technology is the best evidence of human intelligence, which has shown that we are different from other animals. We have lived with technology since we were born. Although it has intervened heavily in our daily lives that we can’t no longer live without, nobody can deny the achievements it has brought to us.
At the start of the information technology revolution, personal computers were the most obvious tool attributed to how historians work, however as the use of internet was still yet to be available widespread, Gorst et al (1997, 139) suggests they have mainly been used simply as replacements for pen and paper, as little more than glorifies type-writers or calculators to manipulate and represent data collected in the archive.
The Technological Dilemma: Blindly embrace our new found Technology and perhaps face the Extermination of the Human Social Structure. As sci-fi as this might seem, society’s full acceptance of technology and its integration into the most miniscule of tasks has far exceeded any consideration of the harm that technology presents. There is practically no area of our social existence in which Technology has not grasped its cold metal tentacles about. As we attempt to argue against the seemingly blind acceptance of technology in this paper, think about each point and how technology might be better monitored in your environment. You’ll realize that the involvement of technology in everyday tasks of the human culture is not really as good a thing as our leaders, businesses and the majority of the community would have you believe.