Name: Adam J. Medina Class time: 12pm
KEEP THIS TO 1-3 – PAGES LONG (EXCLUDING REFERENCE PAGE)
Author: Sara Baase
Date of Publication: 2008
Book: A Gift of Fire
Sections read: 8.1-8.2
1. (Knowledge)Tell three interesting elements of this chapter:
a. Something that I found interesting in this chapter is how you can compare something so simple such as driving a car to computer use, and how all of the flaws of computers are reported but not the good
b. Something I found interesting is how people depend so much on technology, such as the Therac-25 incident, to where people received an overdose of radiation because the machine had an error.
c. Something else that also was interesting is the way people suffer from the loss of billing and how people easily trust the computers like it’s flawless.
2. (Comprehension) Summarize what is being discussed within this chapter?
This chapter is explaining how computer systems fail, crash or doesn’t work because of the quality of it and software bugs, viruses, and other things. The chapter also explains how the product is misused and disrupts people lives. This chapter also explains how people suffered because of errors like those who suffered in the Therac-25 case.
3. (Application)Name a specific example or NEW solution for this type of problem/similar situation in society or that you have experienced – BE SPECIFIC AND EXPLAIN?
A new solution for this problem would probably have to be, not to put all our eggs in one basket, what I mean is that maybe we shouldn’t put 100% trust in computers. This society is developing so fast and advancing every day that we as a society feel as if we need the computers and that it wouldn’t crash or damage or catch a bug but that is when we are wrong and placed in positions we do not want to be in. The Therac-25 incident was another case where people placed 100% in technology which shouldn’t have been done. The machine had to be recalled for extensive design changes including hardware safeguards against software errors. (http://courses.cs.vt.edu/cs3604/lib/Therac_25/Therac_1.html)
4. (Analysis)Address ANY that apply. How can you compare one of the situations in this chapter to something that does not relate to computers, technology, or the Internet? Be sure to reference the chapter and your solution. What ideas NEW can you add to the issue that is being presented within the reading? Try to connect what you have by reading this article and how it applies to the stages in Bloom's taxonomy in 2 full sentences.
To compare this topic to something without technology would have to be, taking this subject matter into the past. In the past roughly around the 80’s I doubt that there were hardly any errors with people’s personal information and without computers doing all of the work. Now what if something crashes with a lot of billing information and it doesn’t get fixed people and major companies lost hundreds of dollars which can’t be returned or undone, then there is something even more major that is a problem with technology.
5. (Synthesis) Address all that apply. Do you agree with what is being said within the article (Why/Why not? Back up with FACTS)? What new conclusions can you draw about this (or other topics) after reading this material?
I agree with what is being discussed in this chapter because as Baase explained about billing errors and how it messes with people. Baase used in example on how a woman received a $6.3 million bill for electricity when the correct bill was meant to be $63. This happens because of an error from a new computer system (Baase 407). This shows how people rely on to much technology instead of manually doing things which can decrease the percentage of errors.
6. (Evaluation) Address all that apply. Judge whether or not this topic is relevant in today’s society? Evaluate why you are viewing the topic in this manner based on your experiences. What ethical evaluations (see Chap1-1.4 for exp of Ethics) or decisions were made/can be assumed from this chapter? What new ideas will you make after reading this chapter?
This topic is very much relevant in today’s society because computers are still being bugged and errors are still being made. People can prevent these things by not putting all of their trust in computers to do the work but split the work, half computer and half workers. I’ve concluded that people will always be dependent on computers and always place themselves at risk for these things to happen.
References
A Gift of Fire: Sara Baase: pg. 407
An Investigation of the Therac-25 Accidents: Nancy Leveson, University of Washington and Clark S. Turner, University of California, Irvine (http://courses.cs.vt.edu/cs3604/lib/Therac_25/Therac_1.html)
Sunday, November 20, 2011
Sunday, November 13, 2011
Chapter 6 Part 2
Name: Adam J. Medina Class time: 12pm
KEEP THIS TO 1-3 – PAGES LONG (EXCLUDING REFERENCE PAGE)
Author: Sara Baase
Date of Publication: 2008
Book: A Gift of Fire
Sections read: 6.4-6.5
1. (Knowledge)Tell three interesting elements of this chapter:
a. Something that I found interesting was employee monitoring, people cannot be trusted in their own working area.
b. Something else that was of interest to me was that people really embezzle money or merchandise from their place of work
c. One more thing that happen to be interesting to me was how there is a law to violate the privacy of your work place which is the ECPA (Electronic Communications Privacy Act) (Baase 340)
2. (Comprehension) Summarize what is being discussed within this chapter?
What are being discussed in this chapter are employment monitoring, employee crime and other sorts of privacy violation at the work place. (Not a violation due to the ECPA)
3. (Application)Name a specific example or NEW solution for this type of problem/similar situation in society or that you have experienced – BE SPECIFIC AND EXPLAIN?
A new solution would have to be for employees to be honest and not steal from their work place in order to be trusted and possibly abolish the ECPA, so that privacy could be ours once again because I know that slowly we are losing our privacy upon everything.
4. (Analysis)Address ANY that apply. How can you compare one of the situations in this chapter to something that does not relate to computers, technology, or the Internet? Be sure to reference the chapter and your solution. What ideas NEW can you add to the issue that is being presented within the reading? Try to connect what you have by reading this article and how it applies to the stages in Bloom's taxonomy in 2 full sentences.
I think in the past something like this wouldn’t be happening in the work environment. While people in the past seem to be more honest and trying to earn an honest buck, not go around the system and embezzle things. Things were more privacy oriented; they seem less on background checks as well since they didn’t have the technology in the past to do things like this. Now things have change and technology is growing, and like Baase said, before bosses patrolled the aisle watching workers, now computer monitoring can be constant, more detailed, more detailed, and unseen. So it is a lot of privacy being lost. (Baase 335)
5. (Synthesis) Address all that apply. Do you agree with what is being said within the article (Why/Why not? Back up with FACTS)? What new conclusions can you draw about this (or other topics) after reading this material?
I agree with what is being discussed, after reading this material, because employees place this upon themselves, working people can’t be trusted because, they going to want more than what they have. You give them an inch and they take a yard. So when they are being watched all day it makes them preform productively and efficiently, but this is not fair for the workers who want their privacy, good workers not needed to be worried about, it might affect their performance. Baase even stated that it affects people of the white collar division as well.
6. (Evaluation) Address all that apply. Judge whether or not this topic is relevant in today’s society? Evaluate why you are viewing the topic in this manner based on your experiences. What ethical evaluations (see Chap1-1.4 for exmple of Ethics) or decisions were made/can be assumed from this chapter? What new ideas will you make after reading this chapter?
In today society this topic is relevant because computer monitoring is happening today but workers in general cannot be trusted to work in specific environment because of the evil temptation of embezzling the company you work for, and workers lose all ethics, values and morals, just for a quick buck or their own personal needs and it just isn’t fair to everyone else.
References
The Gift of Fire: Sara Baase: Chapter 6 section 6.4 and 6.5.1
KEEP THIS TO 1-3 – PAGES LONG (EXCLUDING REFERENCE PAGE)
Author: Sara Baase
Date of Publication: 2008
Book: A Gift of Fire
Sections read: 6.4-6.5
1. (Knowledge)Tell three interesting elements of this chapter:
a. Something that I found interesting was employee monitoring, people cannot be trusted in their own working area.
b. Something else that was of interest to me was that people really embezzle money or merchandise from their place of work
c. One more thing that happen to be interesting to me was how there is a law to violate the privacy of your work place which is the ECPA (Electronic Communications Privacy Act) (Baase 340)
2. (Comprehension) Summarize what is being discussed within this chapter?
What are being discussed in this chapter are employment monitoring, employee crime and other sorts of privacy violation at the work place. (Not a violation due to the ECPA)
3. (Application)Name a specific example or NEW solution for this type of problem/similar situation in society or that you have experienced – BE SPECIFIC AND EXPLAIN?
A new solution would have to be for employees to be honest and not steal from their work place in order to be trusted and possibly abolish the ECPA, so that privacy could be ours once again because I know that slowly we are losing our privacy upon everything.
4. (Analysis)Address ANY that apply. How can you compare one of the situations in this chapter to something that does not relate to computers, technology, or the Internet? Be sure to reference the chapter and your solution. What ideas NEW can you add to the issue that is being presented within the reading? Try to connect what you have by reading this article and how it applies to the stages in Bloom's taxonomy in 2 full sentences.
I think in the past something like this wouldn’t be happening in the work environment. While people in the past seem to be more honest and trying to earn an honest buck, not go around the system and embezzle things. Things were more privacy oriented; they seem less on background checks as well since they didn’t have the technology in the past to do things like this. Now things have change and technology is growing, and like Baase said, before bosses patrolled the aisle watching workers, now computer monitoring can be constant, more detailed, more detailed, and unseen. So it is a lot of privacy being lost. (Baase 335)
5. (Synthesis) Address all that apply. Do you agree with what is being said within the article (Why/Why not? Back up with FACTS)? What new conclusions can you draw about this (or other topics) after reading this material?
I agree with what is being discussed, after reading this material, because employees place this upon themselves, working people can’t be trusted because, they going to want more than what they have. You give them an inch and they take a yard. So when they are being watched all day it makes them preform productively and efficiently, but this is not fair for the workers who want their privacy, good workers not needed to be worried about, it might affect their performance. Baase even stated that it affects people of the white collar division as well.
6. (Evaluation) Address all that apply. Judge whether or not this topic is relevant in today’s society? Evaluate why you are viewing the topic in this manner based on your experiences. What ethical evaluations (see Chap1-1.4 for exmple of Ethics) or decisions were made/can be assumed from this chapter? What new ideas will you make after reading this chapter?
In today society this topic is relevant because computer monitoring is happening today but workers in general cannot be trusted to work in specific environment because of the evil temptation of embezzling the company you work for, and workers lose all ethics, values and morals, just for a quick buck or their own personal needs and it just isn’t fair to everyone else.
References
The Gift of Fire: Sara Baase: Chapter 6 section 6.4 and 6.5.1
Sunday, November 6, 2011
Chapter 6: Work
Name: Adam J. Medina Class time: 12pm
KEEP THIS TO 1-3 – PAGES LONG (EXCLUDING REFERENCE PAGE)
Author: Sara Baase
Date of Publication: 2008
Book: A Gift of Fire
Sections read: Chapter 6 Work: 6.1-6.3
1. (Knowledge)Tell three interesting elements of this chapter:
a. Something interesting about this chapter is how technology is not only used to work smarter and efficiently but how scary it is to say that we might lose our jobs to computers.
b. Something that I found interesting was how at first people argued that spending money on computers was a waste and a decrease in efficiency.
c. Something else that was interesting was how the main cause of losing jobs is the very same thing that is giving more and more people jobs.
2. (Comprehension) Summarize what is being discussed within this chapter?
This chapter is about how people are scared to losing their jobs to new technology and how the new technology is also giving jobs. It also discuss about getting jobs, work ethics and answers the millions of questions we have about work force and technology.
3. (Application)Name a specific example or NEW solution for this type of problem/similar situation in society or that you have experienced – BE SPECIFIC AND EXPLAIN?
An example of this would be, bank tellers being replaced by ATMs’. Baase mentions this in section 6.2.1 and explains that bank tellers dropped by 37% between 1983 and 1993 (Baase pg. 309)
4. (Analysis)Address ANY that apply. How can you compare one of the situations in this chapter to something that does not relate to computers, technology, or the Internet? Be sure to reference the chapter and your solution. What ideas NEW can you add to the issue that is being presented within the reading? Try to connect what you have by reading this article and how it applies to the stages in Bloom's taxonomy in 2 full sentences.
Reading this chapter I realized that people in the world since the beginning of time has always used technology and that is never going to change, technology is always evolving and that is not going to stop. This is allowing me to realize that jobs and the workforce won’t be able to function efficiently without the use of technology and they feel as if they would waist more money on the employees. (Baase pg. 313)
5. (Synthesis) Address all that apply. Do you agree with what is being said within the article (Why/Why not? Back up with FACTS)? What new conclusions can you draw about this (or other topics) after reading this material?
I honestly agree with what Baase is saying throughout the whole chapter, about jobs being removed because of technology and how technology is giving jobs to the people who need to use them and I conclude that this is something that will continue to happen and it will not stop, it will just get worse to where people aren’t getting employed to work with technology but instead being replaced overall.
6. (Evaluation) Address all that apply. Judge whether or not this topic is relevant in today’s society? Evaluate why you are viewing the topic in this manner based on your experiences. What ethical evaluations (see Chap1-1.4 for exp of Ethics) or decisions were made/can be assumed from this chapter? What new ideas will you make after reading this chapter?
This topic is very much relevant in today’s society because from a first-hand point of view I noticed that major owned corporations especially those that are privately owned hire people for technological purposes and lay off people due to what they call a recession which we haven’t been in for quite some time now, or to “slow business”, when the business is never slow, just growing with customers.
References
A Gift of Fire: Sara Baase chapter 6 Work
Pages 309 and 313
KEEP THIS TO 1-3 – PAGES LONG (EXCLUDING REFERENCE PAGE)
Author: Sara Baase
Date of Publication: 2008
Book: A Gift of Fire
Sections read: Chapter 6 Work: 6.1-6.3
1. (Knowledge)Tell three interesting elements of this chapter:
a. Something interesting about this chapter is how technology is not only used to work smarter and efficiently but how scary it is to say that we might lose our jobs to computers.
b. Something that I found interesting was how at first people argued that spending money on computers was a waste and a decrease in efficiency.
c. Something else that was interesting was how the main cause of losing jobs is the very same thing that is giving more and more people jobs.
2. (Comprehension) Summarize what is being discussed within this chapter?
This chapter is about how people are scared to losing their jobs to new technology and how the new technology is also giving jobs. It also discuss about getting jobs, work ethics and answers the millions of questions we have about work force and technology.
3. (Application)Name a specific example or NEW solution for this type of problem/similar situation in society or that you have experienced – BE SPECIFIC AND EXPLAIN?
An example of this would be, bank tellers being replaced by ATMs’. Baase mentions this in section 6.2.1 and explains that bank tellers dropped by 37% between 1983 and 1993 (Baase pg. 309)
4. (Analysis)Address ANY that apply. How can you compare one of the situations in this chapter to something that does not relate to computers, technology, or the Internet? Be sure to reference the chapter and your solution. What ideas NEW can you add to the issue that is being presented within the reading? Try to connect what you have by reading this article and how it applies to the stages in Bloom's taxonomy in 2 full sentences.
Reading this chapter I realized that people in the world since the beginning of time has always used technology and that is never going to change, technology is always evolving and that is not going to stop. This is allowing me to realize that jobs and the workforce won’t be able to function efficiently without the use of technology and they feel as if they would waist more money on the employees. (Baase pg. 313)
5. (Synthesis) Address all that apply. Do you agree with what is being said within the article (Why/Why not? Back up with FACTS)? What new conclusions can you draw about this (or other topics) after reading this material?
I honestly agree with what Baase is saying throughout the whole chapter, about jobs being removed because of technology and how technology is giving jobs to the people who need to use them and I conclude that this is something that will continue to happen and it will not stop, it will just get worse to where people aren’t getting employed to work with technology but instead being replaced overall.
6. (Evaluation) Address all that apply. Judge whether or not this topic is relevant in today’s society? Evaluate why you are viewing the topic in this manner based on your experiences. What ethical evaluations (see Chap1-1.4 for exp of Ethics) or decisions were made/can be assumed from this chapter? What new ideas will you make after reading this chapter?
This topic is very much relevant in today’s society because from a first-hand point of view I noticed that major owned corporations especially those that are privately owned hire people for technological purposes and lay off people due to what they call a recession which we haven’t been in for quite some time now, or to “slow business”, when the business is never slow, just growing with customers.
References
A Gift of Fire: Sara Baase chapter 6 Work
Pages 309 and 313
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