Joy Response

             Bill Joy’s primary concern in the article is that too many advances in technology could hurt the need and survival of the human race. The technological advances that he worries about in particular are the advances in robots and the advances in nanotechnology. Joy develops and shows his concerns and fears with definitions, scientific quotes, and personal stories with the rise and new advantage in technology. Joy uses definitions in a few different ways. The first way he uses definitions are to set up the basic arguments of his article by defining basic definitions such as Murphy’s Law, which is really Finagle’s law. The other way Joy uses definitions is to introduce different problems and situations that might be unfamiliar to the reader such as genetic engineering. Joy uses two different types of scientific quotes. One type of scientific quote is quotes from different scientific fiction writers such as Arthur C. Clarke and Isaac Amov. The other type of scientific quote is quotes from actual scientists who are also his friends or close associates such as David Gelernter, Danny Hillis, and Ray Kurzweil. Joys uses some personal stories to set up his background with technology and his concerns with it. Some of his personal stories are how he grew up interested in computers and science, and how people like his grandmother would be concern about anti-bodies because we might get too dependent on them. This problem is a little less relevant than it was when it was published in Wired magazine in 2000. The problems that Joy brings up are only a little less relevant because right now America and the world are not in the right economic climate to develop highly advance robots and nanotechnologies. My take on the problem is that Joy is a little too concern about the future and he may be worrying about problems that might not come up. I see future technology move a little differently from Joy’s perspective but I acknowledge his concerns. However, I see that future technological advances will just be in robotics instead of nanotechnologies because robotics will be able to do the same thing as nanotechnologies in the future.

News (3/18 to 3/20)

I saw all of my news on t.v. so I compilled every thing into one post and put different links on what I saw on those days.

Friday 3/18: Federal Reserve Involvement with Big Banks

Should the Federal Reserve contiune to poke its head into every single big bank and determine if it can survive instead of letting the market determine that otherwise the Federal Reserve will be able to say which banks are good and which banks are bad. While at the same time people who have money in these banks could get very concern and frighten.

Links
Fox Business
USA Today

Saturday 3/19: Japanese Nuclear Situation

As things in Japan get worse is there a safer way to use nuclear power in America and in the world. This is important becasue nuclear power is very clean but can also be deadly.

Links
Fox Buisness
LA Times

Sunday 3/20: The situation in Libia

As U.S. and other U.N. members attack the Libyan dictator Qaddafi was it smart to wait this long and what will happen next with Libya. Libya is an oil producing country and borders Egypt and other major Middle Eastern countries.

Links
Fox News
USA Today
New York Times

Irish and Energy

Swift uses a satiric proposal to identify some important issues in Ireland during his time. These important issues were the rapid population, the excess amount of children, and British oppression in Ireland. The purpose of this piece is to show and make fun of how the British are trying to micromanage and control the country of Ireland. If the British did follow Swift’s modest proposal they could make money so Ireland could be a profitable investment and territory, and they would reduce the amount of people they would have to regulate and look over by British soldiers. The satirical comical nature of the piece supports Swift’s underling message of how the British oppression over the Irish people is killing the sprit of the Irish and their way of life. It also embodies the Irish independence movement while making the British angry and irritated.

I have a modest proposal for America’s energy policy. America should switch to only 100 percent clean energies, and never use any energy that could have negative effects on the environment. All oil rigs should ripped out the ground, the Alaska pipeline should be chopped down, and all off shore drilling platforms should be turned off and be destroyed by submarines. Coal mines should be collapsed and the unused coal should be used as expensive paper weights. Nuclear power plants should be turned off and turn into water parks, while gas lines should be stopped and all of the gas should sent back into the ground. Anything that is not powered by solar panels or windmills is no longer needed. People will be sent back to a simpler age that will not require excessive electronic devices, such as televisions, refrigerators, or computers, so Americans use less energy. Although it would be hard for most Americans to live without some of the modern luxuries, they would learn to live a cleaner healthier life style. Without televisions, computers, or hair driers people would become more peaceful and fit. Since people could not drive cars, automobile manufactures would have to make quality electric vehicles that use try renewable sources. This would create an economic boom in manufacturing and money would not be shipped to evil oil producing countries. Because oil producing countries could no longer hold our country ransom America could confront dictators and other major problems in the international system. In conclusion, if America follows this energy policy the country would be in a better place both economically, financially, and politically.