Technology and Warfare

In todays society Technology and Warfare are as connected as peanut butter and jelly. As the photo shows it is as easy as a push of a button to create havoc in war through different forms of technology. What are your thoughts about how technology has affected past wars and how will future technology affect the way we see future wars?

Why is there still so few Women in Science?

In this article titled, "Why Are There Still So Few Women in Science?" in the New York Times published in 2013, the author talks about how there is still a huge bias against women in the science fields. I just wanted to know what you guys think about why this can still be true considering many of the worlds greatest scientific breakthroughs have been found by women in the field.

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/06/magazine/why-are-there-still-so-few-women-in-science.html

Women and Science

http://www.cnn.com/2015/04/13/opinions/williams-ceci-women-in-science/

This article, "The myth about women in science," introduces the myth that on average, people are more likely to a hire a man than a women with the same qualifications. To see if this myth is true this article discusses a national experiment where they test this myth by testing 873 faculty members at 371 institutions in 50 states and to get rid of the sex bias, they created fictional candidate profiles identical in every aspect except for gender, and asked the factuly members to rank the candidates for a job. The results were very suprising.

Women and Science

In the past, women were intensely discriminated against in most academic fields. But now this has shifted as women are becoming actually outnumbering men in some fields. Yet in the STEM fields women seem to be lacking in numbers. This article from the AAUW explains how more women need to be steered toward the direction of STEM and they are saying it is just not a benefit for women. This benefit is for all people.
http://www.aauw.org/research/why-so-few/

Technology and Totalitarianism

Technology becomes more and more advanced everyday. As it becomes more advanced are government becomes more unable to track people on it. Since the government wants control over its constituents it will do what it wants to control them. This also means that they will break laws to control us. They can say its for the means of security, but the government doesn't catch much people with the unlawful searches. These searches can only lead to more problems with our society and as citizens we have to wonder, what is too far?

Women in Science

This article discusses how Women have slowly started to become more active in science and technology. However, according to the author there is still room for more and he feels women can make their own unique impact.

https://www.sciencenewsforstudents.org/article/women-science-girls-STEM

Human Genome

This is a very interesting article relating to Human Genome.

http://science.sciencemag.org/content/291/5507/1304


A genome is an organism’s complete set of genetic instructions. Each genome contains all of the information needed to build that organism and allow it to grow and develop (yourgenome.org). This article discusses the possible genetic combinations for humans due to the number of chromosomes and different traits formed.

Technology and Totalitarianism

Connecting the dots of several recent important developments, Google, along with other major tech company's are increasingly acting autocratically like they have unlimited power and are answerable to no one.

Technology Taking Over

http://www.businessinsider.com/how-self-driving-better-human-drivers-2016-12

This article talks about experiencing self-driving cars. A person is responsible, yet not in control.

Technology and Totalitarianism

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F6HKTQZaWa4

Although a short video, I think this is an excellent video that introduces the idea that technology could elimante totalitarianism countries and societies. The example used in the video explains how techonology could possibly be used to elimante the totalitarianism regime of North Korea.

Technology & Totalitarianism

In this video, Fox News discusses how the FBI is spying on people through their webcams. Is this a tie to totalitarianism? Or can this be ethically justified?

What is the connection between totalitarianism and technology?

In today's world, many nations and parties communicate through technology. For example, ISIS reaches out to its followers and posts disturbing videos through the internet. Totalitarian governments use technology as a way to show their dominance and control over the world.

In addition, all a Fascist leader has to do is press enter to create a post in hope to scare and express their dominance around the globe. Totalitarian leaders do not care about freedom or emotion, their main goal is to have power. With technology making it very easy to share and create information, people need to be more cautious when browsing through the internet.

Technology And Warfare

https://www.toppr.com/bytes/how-has-modern-technology-changed-warfare/

The topic of this article is how modern technology has changed warfare. It explains how much of an impact technology has had on warfare and one of the examples they give is how we went from using traditional bows and arrows in wars to now being able to use missiles that can strike with "pinpoint precision" by using GPS.

Tech and Warfare:Drones

Technology its becoming more and more advanced everyday. Since our technology is becoming more advanced everyday all aspects of technology advance as well. One aspect of technology that is advancing rapidly is weapons. One weapon that is very new is drones. Drones are basically flying robots and are killing people without any human interaction. This is something that technology allows. Murder without seeing or doing any of the dirty work of killing someone. This cartoon explains perfectly the awful drone strikes in Syria and how people are being killed by robots who do not deserve to be eliminated.

Connor Zielaznicki NOT FOR TECH AND WAR

Technology advances everyday and human's are adjusting to it quite strangley. This is quite an amazing video about technology and empathy. It is a TEDx talk by Jaquelin Quinones that gives a great insight to the question at hand. Does technology reall kill empathy?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZOhXJPO7PjE

How Relationships are Affected by Technology

Although I believe that in most cases technology helps people to create a closer bond because it keeps them in constant contact making it easier to create conversation as well as makes it easer to communicate in general, there are also cases that technology kills all intimate feelings. This is a relevant picture about the topic. What are your thoughts about the intimacy of technology?

Connor Zielaznicki

What are your thoughts about this picture, with relating to technology and its impact on intimate relationships?

Tupac Shakur - Women's Rights Advocate

Tupac Shakur was a popular advocate for women's rights, and was one of few in the rap industry in his life time (1971-1996). 

This is his song titled "Keep Ya Head Up".

Impact of the Industrial Revolution on Women

This video explains how the Industrial Revolution had a huge impact on women. It explains how women went from being "Housewives" before the Industrial Revolution to working in factories after the Industrial Revolution.

Impact of Holocaust on Women and Children

This article by Mike O'Sullivan talks about a photographer named, Marissa Roth and her documentary of her experience in the holocaust.

http://www.voanews.com/a/photos-capture-devastating-impact-of-war-on-women-children-/1919457.html

Impact of the Industrial Revolution on Women

Robert Betlesky


 https://www.gilderlehrman.org/history-by-era/jackson-lincoln/essays/women-and-early-industrial-revolution-united-states

The impact the Industrial Revolution had on families and women is tremendous. Women were now working outside the home which provided a major step in gender equality. This also forced children to be more independent with not having a mother around every second of the day.

Does Technology Kill Empathy?

 Technology: Does it breed or kill empathy?

 I don't think it's easy to argue that technology is making us more empathetic. Realisticaly, it is making a less engaged and less empathetic generation of students. According to professor Jennifer Aaker, "a recent analysis of 72 studies performed on nearly 14,000 college students between 1979 and 2009 showed a sharp decline in the empathy trait over the last 10 years." (see inserted article above).

There have been many times when social media has been used to benefit the world, a community, an individual, etc... For example, "social media networks like Facebook have been used to promote fundraising and awareness about global humanitarian issues. Following Haiti’s catastrophic earthquake in January of 2010, FarmVille, a Facebook application, launched the “Sweet Seeds for Haiti” campaign, which raised $487,500 in donations within three weeks" (Levine)

On the other hand, the primary use of daily technology is not to raise money for people in need... We  use it to scroll through Instagram, Twitter, Tinder - trying to find things that temporarily entertain us.  There are always new posts, new tweets, new girls and guys to swipe on. It is exciting and new every time. We would rather sit and scroll through our phone than make conversation with the person sitting next to us. It's deceiving, though, because we fail to recognize the pleasure and satisfaction that comes from a real-life relationship, that can be much more entrtaining and valuable than technology ever will be.

Technology can be used for good things, however it is more of an entertainment addiction than it is a tool to better the world. There is still a healthy balance that needs to be focused on, but at this point in time, I think there is too much focus on technology, and not enough on face-to-face interactions.

Does Technology Kill Empathy?

I believe that technology does kill empathy because in today's society we have become so reliable on our phones to communicate. It's much easier to just send a text message or call someone on the phone rather than actually meet them face to face. However, when were sending text messages on our cell phones it is really hard to depict the tone of messages and understand the emotion in the text message compared to actually meeting face to face where you can easily figure out the tone that person is speaking in and understand the emotion of their message. Technology definitely has its benefits, however we can't really on it too much when trying to communicate because face to face human interaction is still very important.

Does Technology Kill Empathy?

The short article, "Is Technology Making Us Less Empathic?" by Gary Small Makes a couple great points that coincide with my belief that technology is indeed making us less empathetic in face-to-face interactions. One major point from the article that I would like to highlight is the face that we are introducing technology to early into kids. When children are growing up their brains are still figuring out what things like empathy are, but with the presence of so much technology the gadgets are clouding their brain and making them unable to process empathy at early ages.

http://www.cnn.com/2011/OPINION/02/18/small.vorgan.internet.empathy/index.html?hpt=C2

Does Technology Kill Empathy?

Robert Betlesky




I strongly agree with the statement that technology kills empathy. Nowadays everyone's mindset is "if it doesn't affect me why does it matter". The major issue with this is they are not showing remorse, but they are also making a joke of it. For example, TV shows like Ridiculousness people suffer painful injuries. During the show they just show the injuries and laugh at it. Social media also has a big negative effect. When scrolling through your twitter feed you often can see injuries or accidents with thousands of retweets and an un-controllable amount of laughter. The America Society needs to start showing remorse for people that suffer from devastating issues. Technology has made it even worse with the ability to share things within seconds.

American Revolution

       The American Revolution was a vital part of United States History as we gained our independence from the Britsh Empire and it created the first modern democracy with a written constitution for The United States of America. This video, "America the Story of Us: American Revolution | History," explains how we wouldn't be here if it wasn't for the Revolutionary War and it is an example of a war where the weaker contestant or the underdog won because the Americans were more determined to win. One of the main quotes I pulled fromt the video was, "The Britsh Army were fighting for a King, The Americans were fighting for their lives." I thought this was a really powerful quote because The Americans were actually fighting for something, which was for their lives and the right to live freely and it was the ultimate factor that lead to the United States Army winning the war. The Americans who fought in the American Revolution weren't just fighting for themselves, but for all future generations who now have the right to live under a democracy and most importantly, the right to live freely.

Revolution: "Solidarity against the Exploitation of Women"

One Billion Rising is a revolution that fights the exploitation of women. This revolution began in February 2012, and has become the largest action to stop violence against women in human history. 

The following statistic was taken from their website: One Billion Rising.

"1 in 3 women across the planet will be beaten or raped during her lifetime. That’s ONE BILLION WOMEN AND GIRLS. Every February, we rise – in hundreds of countries across the world – to show our local communities and the world what one billion looks like and shine a light on the rampant impunity and injustice that survivors most often face."

There has been a lot of attention brought to the degradation and exploitation of women already in 2017. With the recent inauguration of President Donal Trump, many women, and men, have expressed that they've felt sickened by his negative and derogative comments towards many individuals, as well as groups of people. This revolution, although not targeting Trump, is a brilliant way to combat his (and many others') blatant disrespect of certain women.

Revolution

             :The Beatles came out with the song "Revolution" in 1968 to provide a stance on the Vietnam
 War. Media Coverage of the Tet Offensive showed the American public that the Vietnam was not going well and we should withdraw immediately. Lyrics such as "Count me out" and "It's gonna be alright" are repeated in the song to show empathy.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BGLGzRXY5Bw

The effects of technological advancement are both positive and negative. Positively, technology advancement has simplified the way we do things, it saves time, it increases on production, it simplifies communication. Negatively , technology advancement has made humans so lazy , technology users are so dependent on new advance tech tools , this laziness has resulted into less innovation.

Google Does Not Make Us Stupid

I am incredibly apprehensive about taking a side on this topic, and I think the last 30 seconds of this video explains exactly how I feel. Essentially it says that there are benefits of having a google free world, but there are also benefits of having information at your fingertips. Both are beneficial, therefore, a balance is ideal in leading a healthy lifestyle.
Overall, I would not be a happy camper to exist in a world without Google, and I don't think that makes me stupid. I have a thirst for knowledge, but I'm definitely not going to devote my life to learn everything about everything. Google gives me the freedom to learn as much or as little about any given topic.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cKaWJ72x1rI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cKaWJ72x1rI

It seems as most Generation Xers feel as the advent of the internet or a search engine such as google, has made the generation of millennials somehow stupider. This statement made by some of the older generations is completely refutable because of all the amazing educational advantages the internet can bring. Now the term education advantages is quite broad, what is necessarily meant by that statement is that you can literally find out anything by googling it. It can be steps to a math problem, how to program a computer, learn how to fix a car engine, etc. By having all of these information at your fingertips your own knowledge can increase by amazing intervals. Sure having google can also cause you to want to go look up other things such as entertainment, but the positives of such a service outweigh the negatives.

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