The Future of Clothing

Clothing can now be used to measure your heart rate, respiration, and body tempreture.  While still be able to be washable, waterproof, and windproof so it is allowed to be worn as daily clothing.  This will advance our clothing line because right now we have clothes that just keep as warm but in the near future they can be used to measure our health and protect us from various things.  This can be used in the military  to find bullet wounds easier and maybe prevent a bullet from being bullet proof.

If clothing like this were to ever open in stores I would most likely buy them because they seem really cool.  I don't really think it's necessary to have computerized clothing for every occasion other than sports.

Major Concepts

• It brings health benefits and can tell when a person's tempreture is off.
• This will advance our technology and can help us move forward into a more superior species.
• This will benefit society by creating more jobs for people and people will live better.

Potential Strengths/Advantages

• We can advance in technology even further

Potential Problems/Limitations/Disadvantages

• Bugs might appear and may be expensive at first

Discussion Questions

• When will most of the world's population will start wearing computerized clothing?
• Is this a good product that people will buy?

Danny. "Vizual Archive." Vizual Archive. N.p., 18 Apr. 2013. Web. 22 Apr. 2013. <http://vizualarchive.com/2013/computerized-clothing-future-fabrics/?asid=c228f21b>.

South Korea Hacked

In Seoul  South Korea a malware has been released shutting down 32,000 computers and servers while also shutting down three TV networks and three banks causing a disruptive in business negotiations.  They found a computer in Seoul that was responsible for this but it can take weeks or even several months for the investigations to finish.  It is possible that North Korea is behind the attack as they are training "Cyber-Warriors" that are trained abroad in Russia and China.  They are trained to become hackers and they are all students from North Korea.  There has been no proof yet that North Korea was behind the attack but even if they were behind the attack there is no point for South Korea to retaliate against North Korea as it would be useless and will only cause more problems.   I think there is a possibility that North Korea will attack soon with their armies if they are attacking via online.  I do not think that hacking should be a thing as the only thing that comes out of hacking is chaos if everyone online was true then the internet would be trusted and there would be close to no frauds at all.

Major Concepts

• North Korea wants to attack South Korea and The United States of America
• Computers, Servers, TV shows, and banks have been hacked already in Seoul
• North Korea is training Cyber warriors that are trained to hack online

Potential Strengths/Advantages

• People are getting to build more protective websites and this causes our technology knowledge to grow more and more.  The more knowledge we have about technology the better our world can become so that we can advance in humanity.

Potential Problems/Limitations/Disadvantages

• People will get mad and there will be chaos if there are people hacking because hacking causes problems and it will benefit no one and nothing so there is no reason to hack unless you want to cause chaos.Any country can start a world war and there is a very high possibility that North Korea will start the Third World War

Discussion Questions

• How do you feel about hacking?
• Is it possible for everyone in the world to hack each other?

Craggs, Ryan. "North Korea Cyber Warfare: Hacking 'Warriors' Being Trained In Teams, Experts Say." The Huffington Post. TheHuffingtonPost.com, 24 Mar. 2013. Web. 25 Mar. 2013. <http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/03/24/north-korea-cyber-warfare-warriors-trained-teams_n_2943907.html?ir=Technology>.

Tips From Successful Billionaires

Everyone dreams to become a billionaire but how do you actually become one?  Successful billionaires put a lot of time and effort into their mental thoughts.  A small error can cause them to lose all their money and go bankrupt.  Billionaires have a lot of stress on their mind too.  I always thought the more money you have the more stress you have to handle and the amount of money you have defines how much your mental capacity is because lots of people go mad because of money.  Money was created to solve problems yet it has destroyed everyone's lives but it's one of the only ways we know how to keep the system of society going.  Billionaires agree that every day in your life you have to view it as it was your last and make sure you are doing what you want to do and what you think is right or it's not a life your living it's a scripted live play for everyone on the world to watch.

Major Concepts

• Billionaires view their daily life very closely so that they know what they are doing.
• How big their salary is not always on their mind because they have to focus on making choices and decisions
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The Internet In a Nutshell

There are more than 2 billion people that use the internet that is about 1/3 of the whole world's population.  There are so many people using the internet that it has become a part of people's lives.  There are many things to do on the internet ranging from doing work and being productive or to playing around wasting time. On the internet we can share ideas from people all over the world giving us more knowledge about other people's cultures.  The internet is now a daily requirement for school as it gives us more information that we can find in our own textbooks.  It is much easier to find information on the internet that to go to a library and look it up for yourself.  Looking up information on the internet only takes seconds using your preferred search engine.

Major Concepts

• There are so many people using the internet today it's unbelievable.
• The internet has become part of our daily routine.  We use it every single day and the internet has only been around for a few decades yet everybody is using it.
• The internet is extremely useful for almost everything a person needs to know.

Potential Strength/Advantages

• Everyone needs to use the internet, not being able to use the internet or unaware of the internet is looked down upon in our society.

Potential Problems/Limitations/Disadvantages

• More and more people everyday use the internet unproductively which has caused our generation of children to become more strange in a way.  The people who do know the benefits of life and the internet will most likely become leaders or work at a very high rank as the people with ignorance will stay at the bottom until realization.

Discussion Questions

• Will we every stop using the internet?
• If we do stop using the internet what will the next big thing be?

Bennet, Shea. "What Happens On The Internet Every Second, Minute, Hour And Day? [INFOGRAPHIC]." - AllTwitter. N.p., 28 Feb. 2013. Web. 04 Mar. 2013. <http://www.mediabistro.com/alltwitter/internet-stats_b37013?asid=c228f21b>.

A USB Sized Computer

Summary

Dell has a project going on called Project Ophelia it's basically suppose to be a really small computer.  Has the size of a usb and be able to plug into a monitor and run it like an actual computer.  I think this is pretty cool because I remember having computers so big when I was little and now they have managed to fit it into a 3.5 inches to 1.5 inches in depth and that is pretty cool to know.  I wonder what would it be like in the next 10 years of technology because they are at a very fast pace.  I think its because the market is high for good computers because there are so many things to do with computers.  Modern society has accepted computers as a daily routine.  So most people use computers every day for almost everything.  If 10 years ago you were to mention a computer that is so small and so fast and it's ability to use the touch interface aka touch screen people would think you've gone mad.  Its funny how quickly people are using computers.  The first time I had my own computer was when I was 6 but all I used it for was to play video games like The Mario Bros.  Now most 6 year olds are capable of doing more things on the computer typing letters to write out sentences and much more.  I feel like I'm old and I am only 16 so I wonder how old do others feel like.
This Project Ophelia is also going to cost less than 100$ which is extremely cheap and can't wait when it comes out.  I don't think I would purchase this just because I am worried about the specs of this thing because I have 2 Extremely powerful laptops that costed a lot of money and are huge so I do not expect Project Ophelia to take on even 1/20th of the specs but even then its pretty good for less than 100$ it is great for people who can't afford computers because then now they can communicate and research on the World Wide Web.

Major Concepts

• Project Ophelia helps people who can't afford computers because there are a lot of poor people in this world and this is one step closer to helping them out of their situation.  Places such as Africa include many poor countries which are unable to provide their people with the education they need and this helps them out with their low budget.
• It is extremely small this would be useful for emergency or for light packing like if you were to visit somebody and don't want top carry an extra laptop case this would be perfect it would weigh just as much as a tooth brush.
• This will replace memory sticks, having this under 100$ shocks me because I remember a year or awhile ago I bought an 8gb memory stick it costed me 5 thousand baht which is about 180$ and Project Ophelia is suppose to have a memory of 32gb which is amazing.

Potential Strengths/Advantages

• A major Strength I see the author point out was how small it was because if you were to say working computer the size of a usb people would think you are scamming them because it's unrealistic.
• Another one is how cheap it is less than 100$ is like nothing to buy a computer most computers are pricing between 300$-1000$ nowadays.

Potential Problems/Limitations/Disadvantages

• I am concerned what the specs are because I don't think it is going to be extremely fast compared to other computers that are bigger.

Discussion Questions

• What are the inventions that people will have in 10 years?
• Are we ever going to stop using computers?

Thibodeau, Patrick. "A New Computer That Defies Category." Computerworld. COMPUTERWOLD, n.d. Web. 28 Jan. 2013.

Anonymous Strikes Again!

Anonymous created a petition that declares to have DDoS become a form of protest.  It needs 25,000 signatures to get a response from the Whitehorse   DDoS is short for distributed denial of service and it is when a huge amount of people flood a server by refreshing the website constantly.  It is very simple yet very destructive.  The petition also asked for anyone that has been jailed for DDoS to be released and record removed.  This petition is asking for big things that are hard to undo but I would assume that's why it has come to the white house's decision.

This petition will cause lots of activity both neutral and violent.  The problem with this petition is protesting by bringing down an official government's website is not right but that seems to be one of the few ways to get the attention of a government so that's why people are doing it.  A good reason is that this kind of protesting no one will get hurt or killed.  I think that people should not DDoS websites because it is a form of violating their property.  When society brings down a goverment website everyone is surpporting it but lets say the goverment raids your house and burn it down and say it is the right thing to do it wouldn't make sense.  Some people need to understand both point of views.  The problem with DDoS it's so easy to do a group of people that is arrogant and stubborn they can take down the government online.

*Anonymous's mascot is based on this mask which was based off Guy Fawkes who blew up the British parliament ages ago.

Jauregui, Andres. "Anonymous DDoS Petition: Group Calls On White House To Recognize Distributed Denial Of Service As Protest." The Huffington Post. TheHuffingtonPost.com, 12 Jan. 2013. Web. 15 Jan. 2013.