The future brings with it many challenges and many opportunities. Technology innovation and information creation and dissemination have been identified as two of the seven revolutionary trends impacting the world. This course will explore the role of information and computing technologies such as computers, the Internet, Facebook, Wikipedia, text messaging and ipods in transforming the future using the work of the Global Strategy Institute (Seven Revolutions) to envision the world of 2025.
Tuesday, September 16, 2008
Technology in the Disciplines
Does technology make a difference?How is technology being used in your field of study? Think about what we discussed today and state your reflections.
I am a business major, so technology is a way of life for us. We even have a few classes devoted just to the proper use of technology so it is important. As far as it's specific uses, it ranges from all the automation on the stock market, financial programs, invitation of meetings, accounting, ect. But it is true that technology is a double edged sword, meaning that it helps and hurts in diffrent ways. for example, it is now possible to send emails as offical stuff instead of memos which travel much faster, but the risk is if there is a technology failure, it could be lost, or a hacker could steal it. go higher tech, take an online company that does nothing but Internet trade, if someone hacks them, they are pretty much out of business until they can get the problem solved, they cant just do things normally like a store could. but overall technology has vastly improved the business realm by making things go faster and work better.
I am a Pre-Med Biology major and tech. has become a major part of this field. We have had some major advancements and it is only expected to increase very rapidly. I think one of the biggest tech. advancements was the Human Genome Project. We have only begun to understand and apply what we have learned and it will be interesting to see what will come from this single project. While tech. in this field is improving quality of life and life expectency, only time will tell the consequences of this ability. There are so many other major tech. advancements that are being made throughout the entire biology field and I can't wait to see what new fields will be available when I am in medical school.
I am an Accounting major, and technology is one of the most important part of my career. In business technology is indispensable.
The idea to imagine myself doing accounting calculations with only pen and paper is kind of crazy. Today day there is a big variety of tax programs where I only enter the data and the program does the automatic calculations for me.
Majority of businesses depend 100% on technology such as stock markets, and e-commerce only to mention a few. These days we are able to do millions of transactions worldwide without even meeting face to face all because of the technological advances.
It is amazing to see that a robot can execute a human brain and heart surgery with excellent results. The only problem is that we will have all these technological advances in the future but we will not have enough drinkable water?
I hope one day someone smart would be able to find a solution for the two major revolutions (problems) population and water. It will be great to be able to be here and enjoy all these technological advances, but without water I do not think we will be able to.
Technology makes a difference in everyday life, everyday. It changes things for the good and the bad. To some, the ability to get the latest gossip, minutes after it has happened, is a good thing. To others, the constant bombardment of news and media is not so great because there is virtually no where one can go to get away from technology.
Besides all that, technology does make a difference for things great and small. For example, doctors can now do remote surgeries with patients via robots when the doctors are thousands of miles away. Or somethings as simple as getting instant updates on your phone for traffic.
For my field of study which is sociology, technology is being used to help in research gathering and data crunching. Depending on what one does in this field, there are many things technology is doing for the discipline.
So, even though technology is rapidly progressing and constantly changing our world, I think we should not wrap ourselves up so in the newest and most innovative devices. What happens when all the computers/networks fail, and all those who think the iPhone or blackberry is an integral part of their lives are not able to instantly check their email or find out the latest gossip. I believe there would be wide spread panic and immediate outcries of anger and distress. Personally, I think technology is going too far and will continue to do so.
Technology is a wonderful thing on many levels, but in the same breath I will say it is also a cause of problems. There are not many guidelines to follow, or even any enforcers of the rules on the internet.
I am a psychology major and I dread to think of the person who goes online to find help with emotional problems only to find a "Psychologist" who is unlincensed and practicing. I understand there are many good uses for the internet but for every good use people find there is someone else who finds two ways to scam over the internet!!!
Those are some of my feelings about the negative impact......Now for the positive.... There is a psychologist who teamed up with a technology firm that has come up with "Personal Guidance System for the visually impaired" This system has been researched and tested by the psychologist and allows the user to listen to their location and the landmarks around them by GPS. It also allows them to speak and communicate with the system. This allows the user to be more aware of their surroundings and hopefully more secure with going out alone.
A little unrelated to my discipline though is this thought.... What about the cost of this "Technology!!!! I purchase the top of the line DVR two years ago and this year can't even fix it for less than the cost of buying a new one...... And this is not just my DVR it is my computer as well.... It seems that everything I use to my leisure uses technology in some way. Why isn't anyone working as hard to find a more cost effective way to produce for the comsumer.... What about all the waste we are producing, I can't fix my DVR so I must throw it away and buy a new one....Think about all the Americans doing this same thing.... Where does it all end.
Technology is being used to do amazing things in the medical field. It seems like every aspect of the medical field is affected by technology. Technology is used in the simplest tasks, such as taking a patient’s temperature which has advanced from using mercury thermometers to instant digital thermometers, to intricate tasks. Most doctors’ offices keep digital patient records that can be easily transferred between offices and sent to other doctors for opinions. Most tests run on blood and urine samples are done by computer programs now. Robotic arms and computer programs have been developed to help surgeons perform complicated procedures with precise movements. This has also made it possible for a surgeon to perform surgery on a patient on another continent, through remote surgeries. New treatments are constantly being discovered for diseases that have plagued humankind for centuries and this new information is being shared with doctors and researchers world wide. Just as we are living in a global community, our collective health can be said to be in the hands of a global health center.
Technology is no doubt making a difference. Countries with these medical advancements have populations with a longer lifespan then those living in countries with few medical advancements. Medical advancements are also being taken to third world countries and new technologies are being invented to help make bringing health care to those people easier. However, with all these advancements in the medical field it will be harder to keep the “care” in healthcare as a focus instead of a diagnosis.
As was discussed in class, technology has and continuous to have a great impact in the business world. I am an accounting major and technology is making it easier for us to do what we do well, make things right (balance). When we as students are faced with the task of creating financial statements by hand, we sometime believe that that’s torture. This is especially true when we are doing three (3) pages of only t-accounts. This, however, is nothing when compared to accountants who are doing these financial statements for these enormous companies; we (students) are just getting a piece of the pie. Thanks to technology we can have these formats saved on the computer and just plug in numbers where they are suppose to go. Thus making a job that would take three days by hand take only a day or two by computer.
Computers have also made it possible for us to store all these financial records in a place that is not visible to the eye. One might say that the computer can crash and lose all the data. That is true! However, there is the possibility of using external hardware to save and store these data in secure place(s).
Another major advantage of technology is e-commerce. This has made it possible for companies to do business from all different walks of the world. A very good example of this is the doctor who performed the surgery from half way across the world (even though this is not related to business.) With the rate at which innovation occurs, the question now is, how much more will technology help to advance the life of businesses or life in general?
Being a nursing major, I completely agree with Ramon & Meggon. Technology has a hand in basically every single task that is done on a day-to-day basis in medicine. There are so many advances going on in the medical field. We are now able to visualize things more clearly and learn more and more about our bodies and the processes that keep us alive and well. We are able to visualize and study bacteria and viruses more than we ever have. We are able to give amputees their lives back with prosthetics controlled by electronics receiving nerve signals from the brain.
It is great to know that all these advances are being made, but we do not need to lose site in encouraging prevention efforts. The US is only 24th in healthy life expectancy because we are not emphasizing prevention efforts. Our diet and lack of exercise is costing the US millions of dollars. Less than 5% of our health-care dollars is spent on prevention. With more knowledge than we have ever had, we know the direct effects of poor diet, lack of exercise, smoking, alcohol.... yet there is hardly any advances in prevention programs.
I found last class to be a lot of fun. It put everything into perspective for all of us with looking into our majors. I am a nursing major and technology is the biggest aspect of any medical field because it is used in everything that we do. From looking at microscopes to find out what something to the tests done to properly diagnose something to every step that goes into making the medication for that health issue. It is found everywhere. I honestly didn't know about all of the robot technology that is in the medical field to help with surgeries. That just proves that even if we are up to date with what's going on in the popular technology, there are so many more aspects of it that we could never know it all. It was also just nice talking about everyone elses majors because they all ultimately effect each and every one of us daily!
I really enjoyed our last class session, I felt like it was more optimistic than some of the other topics. But we actually discussed how technology can help to improve life and make things better as apposed to there being an inevitable situation (such as population increase) and how we must do something or else we’ll cease to exist.
This discussion was especially specific to my major. I am a biology major and the first thing my teacher said to me in Biology 1107 was that there are no absolute truths in biology, because technology is always changing and we are constantly finding out new things about our natural world as we explore it. With that being said, it was in direct correlation to what we had said in class. Technology helps us to have more powerful microscopes so we can see better the functions of cells and molecules.
It appears as though computers and technology are fast becoming a part of every modern discipline. And, as technology continues to permeate our daily lives, a dependency is slowly developing. This dependency will require greater and greater numbers of qualified individuals to create and maintain the various technologies that we are becoming accustomed to in our daily lives. My personal field of study is computing, so that technological solutions seem to be the first tool I reach for in solving any given problem. And, I personally see no problem in our dependency growing. It seems a natural progression for me.
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I am a business major, so technology is a way of life for us. We even have a few classes devoted just to the proper use of technology so it is important. As far as it's specific uses, it ranges from all the automation on the stock market, financial programs, invitation of meetings, accounting, ect. But it is true that technology is a double edged sword, meaning that it helps and hurts in diffrent ways. for example, it is now possible to send emails as offical stuff instead of memos which travel much faster, but the risk is if there is a technology failure, it could be lost, or a hacker could steal it. go higher tech, take an online company that does nothing but Internet trade, if someone hacks them, they are pretty much out of business until they can get the problem solved, they cant just do things normally like a store could. but overall technology has vastly improved the business realm by making things go faster and work better.
I am a Pre-Med Biology major and tech. has become a major part of this field. We have had some major advancements and it is only expected to increase very rapidly. I think one of the biggest tech. advancements was the Human Genome Project. We have only begun to understand and apply what we have learned and it will be interesting to see what will come from this single project. While tech. in this field is improving quality of life and life expectency, only time will tell the consequences of this ability. There are so many other major tech. advancements that are being made throughout the entire biology field and I can't wait to see what new fields will be available when I am in medical school.
I am an Accounting major, and technology is one of the most important part of my career. In business technology is indispensable.
The idea to imagine myself doing accounting calculations with only pen and paper is kind of crazy. Today day there is a big variety of tax programs where I only enter the data and the program does the automatic calculations for me.
Majority of businesses depend 100% on technology such as stock markets, and e-commerce only to mention a few. These days we are able to do millions of transactions worldwide without even meeting face to face all because of the technological advances.
It is amazing to see that a robot can execute a human brain and heart surgery with excellent results. The only problem is that we will have all these technological advances in the future but we will not have enough drinkable water?
I hope one day someone smart would be able to find a solution for the two major revolutions (problems) population and water. It will be great to be able to be here and enjoy all these technological advances, but without water I do not think we will be able to.
Technology makes a difference in everyday life, everyday. It changes things for the good and the bad. To some, the ability to get the latest gossip, minutes after it has happened, is a good thing. To others, the constant bombardment of news and media is not so great because there is virtually no where one can go to get away from technology.
Besides all that, technology does make a difference for things great and small. For example, doctors can now do remote surgeries with patients via robots when the doctors are thousands of miles away. Or somethings as simple as getting instant updates on your phone for traffic.
For my field of study which is sociology, technology is being used to help in research gathering and data crunching. Depending on what one does in this field, there are many things technology is doing for the discipline.
So, even though technology is rapidly progressing and constantly changing our world, I think we should not wrap ourselves up so in the newest and most innovative devices. What happens when all the computers/networks fail, and all those who think the iPhone or blackberry is an integral part of their lives are not able to instantly check their email or find out the latest gossip. I believe there would be wide spread panic and immediate outcries of anger and distress. Personally, I think technology is going too far and will continue to do so.
Technology is a wonderful thing on many levels, but in the same breath I will say it is also a cause of problems. There are not many guidelines to follow, or even any enforcers of the rules on the internet.
I am a psychology major and I dread to think of the person who goes online to find help with emotional problems only to find a "Psychologist" who is unlincensed and practicing. I understand there are many good uses for the internet but for every good use people find there is someone else who finds two ways to scam over the internet!!!
Those are some of my feelings about the negative impact......Now for the positive....
There is a psychologist who teamed up with a technology firm that has come up with "Personal Guidance System for the visually impaired"
This system has been researched and tested by the psychologist and allows the user to listen to their location and the landmarks around them by GPS. It also allows them to speak and communicate with the system. This allows the user to be more aware of their surroundings and hopefully more secure with going out alone.
A little unrelated to my discipline though is this thought.... What about the cost of this "Technology!!!! I purchase the top of the line DVR two years ago and this year can't even fix it for less than the cost of buying a new one......
And this is not just my DVR it is my computer as well....
It seems that everything I use to my leisure uses technology in some way. Why isn't anyone working as hard to find a more cost effective way to produce for the comsumer....
What about all the waste we are producing, I can't fix my DVR so I must throw it away and buy a new one....Think about all the Americans doing this same thing....
Where does it all end.
Technology is being used to do amazing things in the medical field. It seems like every aspect of the medical field is affected by technology. Technology is used in the simplest tasks, such as taking a patient’s temperature which has advanced from using mercury thermometers to instant digital thermometers, to intricate tasks. Most doctors’ offices keep digital patient records that can be easily transferred between offices and sent to other doctors for opinions. Most tests run on blood and urine samples are done by computer programs now. Robotic arms and computer programs have been developed to help surgeons perform complicated procedures with precise movements. This has also made it possible for a surgeon to perform surgery on a patient on another continent, through remote surgeries. New treatments are constantly being discovered for diseases that have plagued humankind for centuries and this new information is being shared with doctors and researchers world wide. Just as we are living in a global community, our collective health can be said to be in the hands of a global health center.
Technology is no doubt making a difference. Countries with these medical advancements have populations with a longer lifespan then those living in countries with few medical advancements. Medical advancements are also being taken to third world countries and new technologies are being invented to help make bringing health care to those people easier. However, with all these advancements in the medical field it will be harder to keep the “care” in healthcare as a focus instead of a diagnosis.
As was discussed in class, technology has and continuous to have a great impact in the business world. I am an accounting major and technology is making it easier for us to do what we do well, make things right (balance). When we as students are faced with the task of creating financial statements by hand, we sometime believe that that’s torture. This is especially true when we are doing three (3) pages of only t-accounts. This, however, is nothing when compared to accountants who are doing these financial statements for these enormous companies; we (students) are just getting a piece of the pie. Thanks to technology we can have these formats saved on the computer and just plug in numbers where they are suppose to go. Thus making a job that would take three days by hand take only a day or two by computer.
Computers have also made it possible for us to store all these financial records in a place that is not visible to the eye. One might say that the computer can crash and lose all the data. That is true! However, there is the possibility of using external hardware to save and store these data in secure place(s).
Another major advantage of technology is e-commerce. This has made it possible for companies to do business from all different walks of the world. A very good example of this is the doctor who performed the surgery from half way across the world (even though this is not related to business.) With the rate at which innovation occurs, the question now is, how much more will technology help to advance the life of businesses or life in general?
Being a nursing major, I completely agree with Ramon & Meggon. Technology has a hand in basically every single task that is done on a day-to-day basis in medicine. There are so many advances going on in the medical field. We are now able to visualize things more clearly and learn more and more about our bodies and the processes that keep us alive and well. We are able to visualize and study bacteria and viruses more than we ever have. We are able to give amputees their lives back with prosthetics controlled by electronics receiving nerve signals from the brain.
It is great to know that all these advances are being made, but we do not need to lose site in encouraging prevention efforts. The US is only 24th in healthy life expectancy because we are not emphasizing prevention efforts. Our diet and lack of exercise is costing the US millions of dollars. Less than 5% of our health-care dollars is spent on prevention. With more knowledge than we have ever had, we know the direct effects of poor diet, lack of exercise, smoking, alcohol.... yet there is hardly any advances in prevention programs.
I found last class to be a lot of fun. It put everything into perspective for all of us with looking into our majors. I am a nursing major and technology is the biggest aspect of any medical field because it is used in everything that we do. From looking at microscopes to find out what something to the tests done to properly diagnose something to every step that goes into making the medication for that health issue. It is found everywhere. I honestly didn't know about all of the robot technology that is in the medical field to help with surgeries. That just proves that even if we are up to date with what's going on in the popular technology, there are so many more aspects of it that we could never know it all. It was also just nice talking about everyone elses majors because they all ultimately effect each and every one of us daily!
I really enjoyed our last class session, I felt like it was more optimistic than some of the other topics. But we actually discussed how technology can help to improve life and make things better as apposed to there being an inevitable situation (such as population increase) and how we must do something or else we’ll cease to exist.
This discussion was especially specific to my major. I am a biology major and the first thing my teacher said to me in Biology 1107 was that there are no absolute truths in biology, because technology is always changing and we are constantly finding out new things about our natural world as we explore it. With that being said, it was in direct correlation to what we had said in class. Technology helps us to have more powerful microscopes so we can see better the functions of cells and molecules.
It appears as though computers and technology are fast becoming a part of every modern discipline. And, as technology continues to permeate our daily lives, a dependency is slowly developing.
This dependency will require greater and greater numbers of qualified individuals to create and maintain the various technologies that we are becoming accustomed to in our daily lives. My personal field of study is computing, so that technological solutions seem to be the first tool I reach for in solving any given problem. And, I personally see no problem in our dependency growing. It seems a natural progression for me.
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