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WEEK FIVE: Digital Philosophy
REQUIRED TWO ESSAY QUESTIONS:
1. Do you think artificial intelligence will be a significant problem in the future?
I believe that artificial intelligence is a great thing if used in moderation and with safety. We use the GPS to help us navigate through cities we don’t know. I have to drive my child to soccer meets every weekend and the GPS allows me to get to places I have not gone in the past. I remember years ago we I had to rely on the Thomas Guide which was a book filled with maps. The city the street had to be searched on one page then go to another page to find the destination and then the route had to be planned out. In the book “Digital Philosophy” the authors say: “Now imagine this: Place a nano-sized GPS device, augmented with a nano-sized web browser constantly connected to the net but personalized with updates about the person wearing the GPS, so that not only is the person being tracked but the person is also housing tremendous amounts of personal information or data about who they are” (12). This was just the beginning of the book and I had already come to the realization that we have this personal GPS with us at all times. These are our intelligent phones the iPhone, the android phones all of these new intelligent phones most people have. Some people do share more than they are supposed to on social media. Some people without realizing it put their children at risk. They post when they have dropped of a child at school, they the name and the city of the school. If the information is kept private and only shared with people that you know then you might be safe. There is also the unsafe side where people open up to the wrong people and have gotten hurt. I saw the news the other night and saw that a young girl had gone missing after going to meet in person with someone she had met on Facebook. I still think that artificial intelligence will not be a problem is used in moderation and with extra caution and moderation not putting everything out for the world to see. I don’t know what I would do I had to go back to the Thomas Guide for directions to a new city or address. It is so much easy just to put in the address of the place I want to go and have the GPS navigator guide me until I am at my destination.
Lane, David Christopher, and Andrea Diem-Lane. Pg 12. “Digital Philosophy”. Walnut: Mt San Antonio College, 2014. 12. PDF.
2. How has technology impacted your life?
There are so many ways in which technology has impacted my life that I don’t even know where to start. I am so fortunate and happy for the internet, the wifi, YouTube and online classes. If the internet was not available I would not be able to take online classes. Just being able to go on YouTube and look for specific information for math or any other subject is great. I have even gone on YouTube to watch the videos that were assigned for this class we can find anything on YouTube. If technology had not advanced the way it has up until now we wouldn’t be able to get internet service in the home. When I am at work I also use technology for billing and for the transmission of claims online. I work in a dental office and I send the claims electronically online I have to transmit the claims and when a claim needs to have x-rays I send those via the NEA (National Electronic Attachment). When I started working in the dental office that was not an option then about 10 years ago the scanner that scanned transparencies came along. Then very first scanner that I had at work was huge and bulky. It work great and I was able to send my claims and x-rays because of this scanner. The scanner I have now is not that bid and is much easier to operate than the one I had 10 years ago. I can send all of these things because we have equipment and internet that is much faster than what was available a decade ago. Technology is improving immensely and I have witnessed it firsthand because of my work. I have also used technology to entertain my children while I do other things. I have a four year old son whom has used either an I pod and or a tablet since he was a year old. He used the tablet to get videos of numbers, music, letters or educational programs. I only let him use the devices for certain periods of times and I make sure he also had the physical activities that he needs. If we use technology in a positive way it can be a very positive thing and if we abuse it or use it in a bad way then it can become something that is not a positive thing. One very important thing to me is the digital books or the books we can get in PDF files. I can carry the books I have to read in my tablet. I find that carrying my books in my tablet allows me to read my books anywhere and at any time. When I was reading the book I noticed that it said that the books are dead. I don’t think that they are dead there is just a more convenient way to read our favorite books or books needed for school. In the book “Digital Philosophy” the authors say: No, the book died on January 27, 2010. This was when with much fanfare Steve Jobs announced that Apple was coming out with the iPad. At first the response to the touch tablet, which had been widely over typed in the months leading up to it, was somewhat critical because it lacked features that some prognosticators predicted were fundamental (such as a font and back camera, the ability to display flash video, and multitasking)”(20).
Lane, David Christopher, and Andrea Diem-Lane. Pg 20. “Digital Philosophy”. Walnut: Mt San Antonio College, 2014. 12. PDF.
REQUIRED TWO ESSAY QUESTIONS:
1. Do you think artificial intelligence will be a significant problem in the future?
I believe that artificial intelligence is a great thing if used in moderation and with safety. We use the GPS to help us navigate through cities we don’t know. I have to drive my child to soccer meets every weekend and the GPS allows me to get to places I have not gone in the past. I remember years ago we I had to rely on the Thomas Guide which was a book filled with maps. The city the street had to be searched on one page then go to another page to find the destination and then the route had to be planned out. In the book “Digital Philosophy” the authors say: “Now imagine this: Place a nano-sized GPS device, augmented with a nano-sized web browser constantly connected to the net but personalized with updates about the person wearing the GPS, so that not only is the person being tracked but the person is also housing tremendous amounts of personal information or data about who they are” (12). This was just the beginning of the book and I had already come to the realization that we have this personal GPS with us at all times. These are our intelligent phones the iPhone, the android phones all of these new intelligent phones most people have. Some people do share more than they are supposed to on social media. Some people without realizing it put their children at risk. They post when they have dropped of a child at school, they the name and the city of the school. If the information is kept private and only shared with people that you know then you might be safe. There is also the unsafe side where people open up to the wrong people and have gotten hurt. I saw the news the other night and saw that a young girl had gone missing after going to meet in person with someone she had met on Facebook. I still think that artificial intelligence will not be a problem is used in moderation and with extra caution and moderation not putting everything out for the world to see. I don’t know what I would do I had to go back to the Thomas Guide for directions to a new city or address. It is so much easy just to put in the address of the place I want to go and have the GPS navigator guide me until I am at my destination.
Lane, David Christopher, and Andrea Diem-Lane. Pg 12. “Digital Philosophy”. Walnut: Mt San Antonio College, 2014. 12. PDF.
2. How has technology impacted your life?
There are so many ways in which technology has impacted my life that I don’t even know where to start. I am so fortunate and happy for the internet, the wifi, YouTube and online classes. If the internet was not available I would not be able to take online classes. Just being able to go on YouTube and look for specific information for math or any other subject is great. I have even gone on YouTube to watch the videos that were assigned for this class we can find anything on YouTube. If technology had not advanced the way it has up until now we wouldn’t be able to get internet service in the home. When I am at work I also use technology for billing and for the transmission of claims online. I work in a dental office and I send the claims electronically online I have to transmit the claims and when a claim needs to have x-rays I send those via the NEA (National Electronic Attachment). When I started working in the dental office that was not an option then about 10 years ago the scanner that scanned transparencies came along. Then very first scanner that I had at work was huge and bulky. It work great and I was able to send my claims and x-rays because of this scanner. The scanner I have now is not that bid and is much easier to operate than the one I had 10 years ago. I can send all of these things because we have equipment and internet that is much faster than what was available a decade ago. Technology is improving immensely and I have witnessed it firsthand because of my work. I have also used technology to entertain my children while I do other things. I have a four year old son whom has used either an I pod and or a tablet since he was a year old. He used the tablet to get videos of numbers, music, letters or educational programs. I only let him use the devices for certain periods of times and I make sure he also had the physical activities that he needs. If we use technology in a positive way it can be a very positive thing and if we abuse it or use it in a bad way then it can become something that is not a positive thing. One very important thing to me is the digital books or the books we can get in PDF files. I can carry the books I have to read in my tablet. I find that carrying my books in my tablet allows me to read my books anywhere and at any time. When I was reading the book I noticed that it said that the books are dead. I don’t think that they are dead there is just a more convenient way to read our favorite books or books needed for school. In the book “Digital Philosophy” the authors say: No, the book died on January 27, 2010. This was when with much fanfare Steve Jobs announced that Apple was coming out with the iPad. At first the response to the touch tablet, which had been widely over typed in the months leading up to it, was somewhat critical because it lacked features that some prognosticators predicted were fundamental (such as a font and back camera, the ability to display flash video, and multitasking)”(20).
Lane, David Christopher, and Andrea Diem-Lane. Pg 20. “Digital Philosophy”. Walnut: Mt San Antonio College, 2014. 12. PDF.
