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The State of the climate -- and what we might do about it.

Period 3

23 September 2013

The state of the climate -- and what we might do about it. 

     Will a hundred years from now be the worst of centuries or the best of centuries? Lord Nicholas gives an example using his experience twenty-five years ago while visiting Beijing. He went to teach there and as for transportation, he used a bicycle to get around. It was to go around. However, today all the cars and truck is making bicycling dangerous because the cracks on the roads. The air is much worse and at age sixty, people should not go outside or move too much. He says that we should see that China burns half the worlds coal each year and that is why a key reason of why it has green house gases. China has grown rapidly and lifted people out of poverty, but know that is unsustainable path of growth and development. In which they will build cities in different ways and cut down some coal.

            In general our population will grow, more energy will be use, and the pressure on land, water, and forest will increase later in the years. But if we are not careful on our actions we can create pollution, waist, and destruction toward our own world in which we need to survive, our only home. Green house gasses will grow and ruined the climate change. We will risk temperatures that we never experienced. It will change everywhere and people would move risking the environment we need to survive. Knowing this we will have to do a change a transformation. It is an opportunity that we can use or an opportunity we can lose.

            People hear what is happening, feel they should do something, but they don’t do anything. Something we have to do is invest our cities. Reuse, Reduce, and Recycle, something simple, in which anyone can do. Something we heard in our lives. Making good choices gives you good result, if your destination is about a mile, instead driving a car a walk wont hurt using the public bus will reduce the smoke that will go in the air. Buying a water bottle, after you finished drinking the water, reuse it by adding more water or recycle by putting in a recycling bin not in the trash.  Are we going to look our next two generations in the eye and tell them that we understood the issues that recognized the dangers and opportunities and will still fail to act? Surely not, lets make then next hundred years the best of centuries by acting on our opportunities to change and transform in a better lifestyle. 

Herding Game

Maze Game

How Algorithm Shape Our World.

How algorithms shape our world.

     We are living in a world design for algorithm. It is shaping our world and by living in it's design is increasingly controlling our lives, as well as being a major role in our everyday lives. From Wall Street to Netflix, algorithms have been solving step by step on solutions for the problem. It has even made a big spy plane look like small flock birds and bring it back as a whole. It has determined, espionage tactics, stock prices, movie scripts, and architecture. However, algorithmic trading is hardly understood. We are writing codes we can't understand, with implications we can't control. These algorithms is not an information site like Google you can't normally see them. 

     In the stock market algorithmic trading is relied upon. Which possibly this trading includes your pension fund and your mortgage. In the video "How Algorithms Shape Our World" with Kevin Slavin he discusses how the world we are living is designed for algorithms. He also discusses that some of this trading requires speed in transferring data, which needs to close to a fiber optic cables. That is why trading companies like in Wall Street are buying places close to one point near Carrier Hotel in New York. And not only that from Chicago and New York a new fast speed cable is being built between them, just to take away the time to place a trade by a few microseconds.

     It has now been part of our everyday lives. Architecture uses algorithms to make a better resources, and the cleaning robots are one example. In the video with Kevin Slavin the architectural algorithms that drive their computer codes, the types of models have different ideas about what cleaning means, as they go around dirty floors. When you are using Netflix to watch a movie or read a book online at the end you get a recomendations on what you may interesting in seeing next. Algorithms are being used to analyse and predict behavior on the human world. This algorithm is truly shaping our culture.    

     Going back to the stock market and not being able to understand the codes, algorithms can be somewhat scary. When the Flash Crash 2:45 happened no one actually knew about it or what happened to it. And if algorithmic trading, like in Wall Street,  just crashed again and went awry, how would we know, what would it look like? Whether we like it or not, algorithms, same with nature and humans, are the forces that are shaping our world.

Roll Dice & Play

Generation Like

Generation Like

     Generation Like is almost like the evolution of social media. Even now you can see it change. All these social media are being used by everyday that it benefits them more in their work life. Why? By us clicking the like button it shows the company what we like and use that information to make more advertisement for us to see. For example, you are in your Facebook and you like a new video game that just came out. Facebook will use that information and the next time you log into your account, you will see more ads on similar video games. Your lies are the benefits of the advertiser. Even the consumer makes its own advertisement. 

     Back in the old days it was only one way to find new products and see the different advertisement. They will see billboards and walls to see posters on what the lasting is. Now you can just go to Facebook like something and more products that you liked will come up. Now that market is fast. With everything evolving day by day is starting to come out in everywhere you log in or visit. Back then there was the radio where you heard the latest music, now you can go to YouTube and see their music video. Even the music videos are advertising to you making themselves be advertised. People are using them to advertise and being able to get money. Like YouTube they have people blogging about stuff they use or things they do, later to realize that they are showing products that are wanting to be bought. Seeing you like them, they make the one person in the video as the big billboard you see every day.

     The video used a reference to the Hunger Games and is almost similar to our technology world. We are in the arena when it comes to technology, finding ways to survive, by liking, commenting, or sharing. In the arena we all need sponsors or people to like us, and that is why we post things that can satisfy others and make you feel better too. The people behind the arena are controlling you with their every move. Like the first paragraph they move you, taking you somewhere they want to take you. You need people to like you. Are something people thinking for themselves when they go to Facebook, twitter, and other portals.

     Having discovered this, it makes me remember how I am when I get to these portals and what I post up.  I know I am in the arena with the rest and there is no denying. People should realize what they do and how is actually working. If likes where to become money even that would change.