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Machines: Are They Helpful Or Too Much Trouble?
485 Words - 2 Pages.... falling. As people needed employment, they traveled to London
to find work, which caused the population to increase. Developers built multi
story building(apartments), and row houses making streets less crowded, and gave
the people a newfound wealth and security. Steam engines made it easy to
transport goods, the cotton gin made it easier to clean cotton, and made more
money. Then technical schools began to develop, helping young people finish
grammar school. Women also started working, they were very obedient and men
started giving them more respect.
Along with positive, were also negative. Most people worked twelve to
fourteen hours a day, six days a week, they had t ....
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Technology
799 Words - 3 Pages.... a better product in a shorter span of time. Is the world on
the brink of yet another industrial revolution? Where shall this advance
take us? Into a global system of social relation and peace--where people
from all over the world can intertwine within a perfect Utopia? Or will it
cause pain and suffering due to a worldwide depression? A scale that would
be twenty-times the size of the Great Depression during the 1920's.
Technology has so wondrously and destructively marveled the human
mind and body throughout the centuries. From out of the dark depths of the
mind have sprung explosive ideas, producing inventions that have
transformed minute villages into gigantic c ....
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Microprocessors
2468 Words - 9 Pages.... react in the exact same way each time (Rosch,37).
More practically a microprocessor is multitudinous transistors squeezed onto as
small a piece of silicon as possible to do math problems as fast as possible.
Microprocessors are made of many smaller components which all work
together to make the chip work. A really good analogy for the way the inner
workings of a chip operate can be found in How Microprocessors Work. In their
book, Wyant and Hammerstrom describe a microprocessor as a factory and all of
the inner workings of the chip as the various parts of a factory (Wyant and
Hammerstrom, 71-103). Basically a microprocessor can be seen as a factory
because like a factory i ....
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Manual Labor To Industrial Automation
399 Words - 2 Pages.... in the small work place as well.
One of the problems that are arises from automation is the tendency to raise average wages over time, but in reality a lowering of wages for people with obsolete skills is taking place. The image that keeps popping up is the one of the elimination of the need for human work. This bleak picture is probably never going to occur on such a drastic scale, but it has happened to millions of hard working people. One concern is what the people as a whole going to do about losing their jobs. The only real answer to this problem may not be determined for years to come. As automation continues to grow, many people will be negatively affected.
My fe ....
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Internet And Censorship
946 Words - 4 Pages.... people's free speech.
In this country, many activists for censorship of the Internet mainly have one thing on their minds. They want to protect children from pornography. Although I view this as a big concern, there is a greater issue at hand. Since censorship encompasses all forms of expression, censoring the Internet would hurt many people. Since the Internet is an international community, we must view it as pertaining to other countries; not just the United States. Not all countries have the privilege of living in a democracy and under the Bill of Rights. As a result, the Internet as brought newfound freedom to most people who are oppressed by tyrannical gove ....
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Ethernet
1260 Words - 5 Pages.... right Ethernet
card, you want to have that scale in mind. If you have a Pentium or faster
you want to buy a PCI Ethernet card. If you have a 486 or slower you want
to buy an ISA Ethernet card. At the bookstore, they sell a Kingston ISA
Ethernet card for $19.95 and a D-Link PCI Ethernet card for $26.95.
Now comes the frustrating yet simple task of putting the card in
the computer. Make sure you unplug the power supply cord from the back of
the computer. Every computer opens in its own unique way. Most will have
screws in the back that hold the case cover. Unscrew them and slide the
case off. Some might have to be tugged and pulled roughly, but don’t worry,
it wil ....
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AIBO And Robotics
432 Words - 2 Pages.... are automatic electro-mechanical machines. Most robots are not fully automatic because a human is remotely controlling them using a TV or any other device to get feedback from the robot. Some other devices used to send feedback are radio signals, sonar, optical fiber, and sensors. Powerful computers with Artificial Intelligence programs control robots that are fully automatic. Robots are taught to perform repetitive tasks. Intelligent robots incorporate the other disciplines of Artificial Intelligence like, human sensory simulation for touch, sight, and hearing.
Our future will definitely have a place for robots. Some radicals believe that robots will eventually take over ou ....
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Should The U.S. Government Be Scared Of Cyber Terrorism?
910 Words - 4 Pages.... trying to prevent the hackers with computer simulations and computer programs.
The Colombian Rebel Group ELN is one of the many terrorist groups known to have a web page on the Internet. The ELN is known mainly for blowing up oilrigs in South America, and for kidnapping foreign executives. Two years ago, a Swedish hacker managed to go to London, to Atlanta, and then to Florida where he rerouted and tied up phone lines in each country, put 911 services out of commission, impeded the response of police, fire and rescue services. There are also a lot of cyber attacks within the United States, which are referred to as domestic attacks. In 1996, there were 128 cases of cyber ....
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