Last class I almost got finished organizing my data. My plan today is to hopefully start writing rough drafts for 2c and 2d by the end of class.
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Yesterday I started to sort all my information. I wrote down my function and purpose, and have begun to write out my ideas for harmful, beneficial effects, and data types. I plan to continue my work from yesterday by writing out my ideas for 2d and 2c.
Last class I was able to get most of my sources. This class I plan on sorting my information and gathering notes to then be able to start answering the questions.
I chose ownership and authorship as my most important issue because it has implications on whether our data is actually our data. If the data we make on the daily is being used by people to sell or do research on and we get no profit, then this is not fair for people.
Link to Website The article I found talks about the USPTO and how patents, copyright, and trade secrets play into ownership. The copyright owner can give anyone access while retaining their ownership of data. Trade secret prohibits sharing outside the owner of data. Patent owners have to disclose their invention to receive legal protection of their data. It also talks about how intellectual properties owner by people have to be tolerated by researchers, so existing data needs to be checked by its owner before use. Yesterday I began collecting sources and writing the function and purpose of Spottily. I discovered interesting takes on harmful factors such as its effect on the environment. Today I plan on collecting more sources and organizing my information.
Today is my first day working on the explore task. My goal for today is to start researching and gathering sources on Spotify, which is my computing innovation, and figuring out the thinking aspect.
1. Yes and no; sharks biting the fiber optic cables under the sea is a problem, but not a huge one.. Companies like Google are combating this issue by wrapping the cable in Kelver-like material to stop damage. The sharks are specially attacking the fiber optic cables and not the copper because of the electrical current of fiber optic cables. According to research this is because the sharks are confused and think its food due to these electric currents. In the end it is extremely rare and blown out of proportion.
2. Other ways cables can break are anchors from ships, earthquakes, components failing, shark bites, and sabotage from other people. Most damage is from human activity in ships dragging anchors or fishing boats. 3. We use the submarine cables. They were put there for us so we can communicate data and send it around the world. For example: anyone who uses the internet may be using the submarine cables to get data from a website. 4. The cables are mostly the width of a garden hose in the ocean, but closer to the shore they may be thicker. This is because the data signals are very thin and do not need much space to move. 5. Since fiber optic cables are so thin, they can be bent allowing the data to transfer at different angles, curves, etc. It allows for any path to be created despite the obstacles. Basically the fiber optic is a perfect mirror that instantly reflects the light letting the data travel extremely fast. 6. What I found most interesting is how the cable size is only about the width of a garden hose. I thought they would be thicker to prevent damage but since they all eventually wear out there is no point in adding extra protection on the cables, instead it just easier to build more.
Throughout my reading of the 7 Koans, I found 2 in particular to be more interesting than the rest. The first of the two was Koan 2, as it provides great insight about the evolution of technology; specifically in the communication of data and the quality of that information. The speaker discusses how the quality of information has changed over the years through the way we communicate. For example, the differences between the quality of a copy on paper and the quality of a copy on a computer are drastically different. Copies on computers have become so detailed and so alike they could essentially be the original copy. Another topic of interest from this article is how this evolution has affected humanity. The issue of "intellectual property" has become more and more common, and because this is a new problem, there aren't exactly many solutions yet to have been discovered. Ultimately, it is a subject that is prominent in our society today.
The second Koan I read was Koan 5. This excerpt was especially intriguing as it discusses the progression of speed of computers throughout the years, and how this may impact society in the long run. What I found most interesting is how although Moore's Law began to slow down around 2001, people have continued to progress by finding other solution such as multiple processors with split up objectives. This allows for even more speed when it comes to the innovation of computers as we progress into the future. Three things I learned during the trip were:
1. The first picture shows the first commercial application of a transistor. I chose this because I was intrigued by how the first use of transmitters they put them into was in the medical field. This is significant in wireless communication because it was the first time commercially we had wireless applications. 2. This is a drone that has just recently become a huge commercial product in my life. I took a picture of the drone because of its influx of use in the past 5 years. It has become a normal product people own and use to make videos. This is one of the modern wireless communications great inventions since it uses a controller to move and fly around up to 400 feet in the air all while being able to record videos or take pictures. 3. This is a picture description of Moore's Law. I found Moore's law fascinating because you typically would not expect something to continually keep growing at this fast of a pace. There has to be an endpoint somewhere, a slope we can never cross, but yet we keep doubling every two years. Moore's Law defines how wireless communication is only going to get faster, better, more powerful as time goes on year after year into the future. 4. This is an instrument used for Morse code messages. I took this picture because I found it really fun to try first hand using this machine to send messages or figure messages when doing the interactive tutorial. This is what naval ships and any ship used in the 20th century for communication between plays, in order to send messages or warnings, etc. 5. This is a photo of a type of coding that someone was able to read fluently while working at the Chatham Marconi in the early 1900s. The person would type a message on a typewriter and this would come out, he would then send to over to a printer and print out the message in words. I got to actually try this and this is my yellow code that says, 'Hi I'm JP'. This was a major use for wireless communication at the center I was told and if someone got a message wrong it was not good. So the person working this knew what they were doing. There would also be more than one person working this type of early coding. 6. This is a photo of the Marconi-RCA Wireless Receiving Station in operation during the 20th century. One reason I took this was the map in the background, its broken up into sections and does not look like a very accurate map, maybe it was done that way on purpose? I also enjoyed connecting that all the machines we saw, there were actually several of them with a person on each one doing their job. This connects to wireless communication because it is the Marconi Station in action, receiving and sending messages/signals across the Atlantic.
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