In writing this essay I focused on the topics that sounded interesting to me and had quotes and other facts to back it up. For instance, I talked about if technology is becoming to advanced for the human mind. This topic is broad and I can go off of it with other similar questions and having facts and quotes to back it up. My notes helped me by I wrote down some quotes that I found interesting to me and would help understand a topic I was writing about. Everytime I take notes, I write down or highlight the things that stand out to me and I feel would be good factors in writing a good essay. I do feel like I should have written down more quotes and facts as I read through the stories so, I could portray them into my writing. I feel a quote from the text helps the reader understand the material better when coming straight from the author.
I have a hard time putting my thoughts to paper, I never find the words that I want to say. For my next paper, I will try to write down my thoughts and group them in a way that will better help me form an essay.
I have never done a blog before so this is my first experience doing any sort of writing on line that other people can look at and comment on. During the peer editing portion of this assignment I enjoyed being able to read other people's work and commenting on their essays. I got a lot of good feedback by my peers and ways to change my essay to make it better. I feel like with doing peer editing online, people aren't afraid to say how they feel about a person's paper because they aren't doing it right in front of them.
I also found peer editing to be more effective for me when commenting on other people's work. I could be able to take my time with reading the essay and finding good advice to give. When doing editing in class, there isn't much time to read the paper and find good comments to give.
Monday, February 16, 2009
Thursday, February 12, 2009
Rough Draft
Looking back at the two readings Kim Vicente’s “The Human Factor” and Kurt Vonnegut’s “Cats Craddle” they both have different views and ways of expressing their view on technology. Technology is a very complex word and it can mean a variety of things ranging from the high-tech machinery to something softer as work schedules. What would life be like with out technology? Where is the line drawn, when people are satisfied with the things around us and not become greedy and want more? Can the human mind understand the improved way of living? “More and more, we’re being asked to live with technology that is technically reliable, because it was created to fit our knowledge of the physical world, but that is so complex or so counterintuitive that it’s actually unusable by most human beings.” This quote from Vicente analyzes the human factor and how technology and the human mind go hand in hand, but do technology shape humans or do humans shape technology? With inventing this new technology, it has to be put into consideration if humans have the mind power and ability to be able to work the machinery. Such as in Vicente with the power plant that exploded. The worker did not fully understand how to use the machinery until it was too late.
In Cat’s Craddle, the same message is being portrayed if technology is getting too advanced for the human mind or even the environment. Dr. Hoenikker created ice-nine with the intensions of helping the marines cross swamps during combat, yet he didn’t put into consideration on how it would effect the environment and things around it, or so it seems.
” And the pools and the streams in the frozen much?”
“They would freeze?”
“You bet they would! He cried “And the United States Marines would rise from the swamps and march on!”
In the quote above, I feel that it shows that Dr. Hoenikker didn’t care about what damages ice-nine would cause to the areas around it and only focusing on the success and honor he felt with inventing such a powerful thing. People like Dr. Hoenikker creating such advance technology will cause problems if it gets into the wrong hands. I feel that technology is very useful in making our everyday live easier, but if people like Dr. Hoenikker are making such advanced ways of living, soon there will be a technology for everything and humans wont have to use their hands to survive. Humans will become dependent on the things around them and soon won’t have to use their minds to complete a simple task.
Technology can mean different things to people. People may see technology as just materialistic things such as electronics or cars and others may see technology as a challenge. Everyday scientists and doctors are feeling the pressure of getting the cure for an illness or a way for something to move faster. The challenge to make something so great could be too advanced for the human mind, making it hard to operate, causing problems.
The human mind is very greedy and always wanting to be better and do better and technology is the guinea pig. Therefore I feel that technology will never stop advancing. There will always be someone who wants the honor and power of inventing something that will make life on earth easier. In both stories, there were examples of how advanced technology is and frustrating to the normal human mind and if used wrong, deadly. Even though technology is made by humans, there is going to human error, but when is it going to be too much error that there should be a ban on advanced technology being invented?
In Cat’s Craddle, the same message is being portrayed if technology is getting too advanced for the human mind or even the environment. Dr. Hoenikker created ice-nine with the intensions of helping the marines cross swamps during combat, yet he didn’t put into consideration on how it would effect the environment and things around it, or so it seems.
” And the pools and the streams in the frozen much?”
“They would freeze?”
“You bet they would! He cried “And the United States Marines would rise from the swamps and march on!”
In the quote above, I feel that it shows that Dr. Hoenikker didn’t care about what damages ice-nine would cause to the areas around it and only focusing on the success and honor he felt with inventing such a powerful thing. People like Dr. Hoenikker creating such advance technology will cause problems if it gets into the wrong hands. I feel that technology is very useful in making our everyday live easier, but if people like Dr. Hoenikker are making such advanced ways of living, soon there will be a technology for everything and humans wont have to use their hands to survive. Humans will become dependent on the things around them and soon won’t have to use their minds to complete a simple task.
Technology can mean different things to people. People may see technology as just materialistic things such as electronics or cars and others may see technology as a challenge. Everyday scientists and doctors are feeling the pressure of getting the cure for an illness or a way for something to move faster. The challenge to make something so great could be too advanced for the human mind, making it hard to operate, causing problems.
The human mind is very greedy and always wanting to be better and do better and technology is the guinea pig. Therefore I feel that technology will never stop advancing. There will always be someone who wants the honor and power of inventing something that will make life on earth easier. In both stories, there were examples of how advanced technology is and frustrating to the normal human mind and if used wrong, deadly. Even though technology is made by humans, there is going to human error, but when is it going to be too much error that there should be a ban on advanced technology being invented?
Monday, February 2, 2009
Assignment #1
When reading through Vicente's The Human Factor and Vonnegut's Cat's Craddle I find many similarities reguarding their views on technolgoy. I find that both authors view technology as confusing and bad to the human world. Vicente discusses how easily technology can effect the human life with being to complicated and over the top. For example, Vicente discussed the new way to check the oil in a person's car and with the steps stated are far more complicated than checking it manually. Everyday new technology is being invented to make the human life easier. I find with doing this is making the world lazy and depending on a machine to live. Technology has been part of people's every day lives that they become depenedent on it. With having people be so dependent on technology, I wonder if a person in this day in age can survive without it. If technology was stripped from the everyday use, will people know how to survive?
In Cats Craddle, I feel that the same message is being portrayed. Ice-Nine is a way to help the marines cross swamps other bodies of water. Yet, with this being a helpful tool it also causes many problems, such as all technology can cause. I feel that it sends the message that technology can be useful, but their are ways it can be dangerous if not used correctly. With the ice-nine it can freeze everything around it, such as the bigger bodies of water, causing harm to the environment.
I feel that the human factor is everything the human is capable of. Technology and the human factor go hand in hand. Yet, I go back to the question of if technology shapes humans, or humans shape technology. With inventing this new technology, it has to be put into consideration if humans have the mind power and ability to be able to work the machinary. Such as in Vicente with the power plant that exploded. The worker did not fully understand how to used the machinary until it was too late. I feel that technology is very useful, but it shouldn't run our lives. Vicente and Vonnegut's view on technology as being "bad" because technology can be too complex for the typical human and when it isn't used correctly can cause many problems.
In Cats Craddle, I feel that the same message is being portrayed. Ice-Nine is a way to help the marines cross swamps other bodies of water. Yet, with this being a helpful tool it also causes many problems, such as all technology can cause. I feel that it sends the message that technology can be useful, but their are ways it can be dangerous if not used correctly. With the ice-nine it can freeze everything around it, such as the bigger bodies of water, causing harm to the environment.
I feel that the human factor is everything the human is capable of. Technology and the human factor go hand in hand. Yet, I go back to the question of if technology shapes humans, or humans shape technology. With inventing this new technology, it has to be put into consideration if humans have the mind power and ability to be able to work the machinary. Such as in Vicente with the power plant that exploded. The worker did not fully understand how to used the machinary until it was too late. I feel that technology is very useful, but it shouldn't run our lives. Vicente and Vonnegut's view on technology as being "bad" because technology can be too complex for the typical human and when it isn't used correctly can cause many problems.
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