Blog Post #8 Schermerhorn

With the future comes questions; questions that a followed by ideas and assumptions of what will be. EM Forester shares his vision of the future with us in has short story, “The Machine Stops.” He sees the world as a place where people live in “cells” captured by this machine living below the earth’s surface, unable to have face to face communication. Only people who allowed to go above the surface can. This reminds me of the movie “The Island.” It’s about how people pay for a jelly like structure that has clones of their organs so if they get sick, they have a replacement. Little to their knowledge the company is making real human clones in an old military bunker below grown. The clones are told that the outside world has been contaminated and they are survivors. Each day they have a lottery where they can go to “the island” but really this is just people needing the clones body parts. Two of the clones escape informing their “investors” of the situation and the investors are so concerned with their lives they don’t even care that there are real people dying for them to live longer. It’s incredible the Sci-Fi similarities between “The Machine Stops” and “The Island” and how the technology plays such a huge role in the lives of people, but in the end technology always fails.

Schermerhorn Creative Proposal

1.    My group presentation topic is health; I believe that in the near future, within 10 years, everyone who is slightly motivated will be in great health because of new workout machines and discovers of medicine that will probably keep you alive and healthier for an extra 20 years.
2.    I would either like to research finding that nutritionist are working on and create the outcome of their experiments, I would like to film this or do an experiment of our own.
3.    If we did an experiment of our own we would need to record all data but I would want to video the process to a video camera as well.
4.    Depending on what my teammates want to do, I would like to start the experiment this week and continue filing and recording data until a few days before the project is due. I would want to start putting the film together by the end of next week. Then record our final conclusion the day before so we have as long as possible to complete the experiment.

Blog Post #11 Schermerhorn

Online Privacy is not existent. Although people believe they are safe online there are still ways to obtain any information wanted to obtain. For instance, if I did my banking online a hacker could easily, at least for them, hack all of my information and probably even wipe out my bank account. The term online privacy is simply there to make people not be afraid of putting information on the internet. This I hard to fathom, that everything that is put online is shared with the world but it’s true. Facebook claims to keep the information private that is requested, yet they continually get penalized for this deceiving term. I personally don’t put anything on the internet I would want the world to know or see. I believe companies and consumers should come to an alliance on what privacy really should be, and what both sides want out of it. I personally believe that everything you want to be private should not be shared with anyone that you do not consent to. With Googling my name all that came up was my Facebook but its private so all you can see in my picture and name. I believe this is because I haven’t had anything published, I don’t have any of my own accounts; it’s all under my parent’s name. I was expecting more to come up when I googled my dad’s name, there was literally nothing on him and he is a pilot and owns a store. Although my searches were invalid I do believe that privacy is an issue online which is causing distrust in the internet.