Right To The City

The right to the city articles talks about the park near Berkley. It talks about how people make up what the park is from the children to the homeless. They want to change the place into a recreational center which is something that I liked very much since I love when people care about others future. Many people had different views on what should be done with the park since it was full of homeless people. They wanted to make it more of a place for children. It was argues on how the park should be made to help people out instead. Riots even broke out while this issue was argued and that was very sad to see. Like always proteststers did not agree with what was happening.The university had the final say and was transformed into a place where the university students can go and have their own recreational center.

"They know times are tough and they want to survive"

I like what is said here it is a great quote since it shows how students needed to do so many things to get what they wanted and they knew it was a "had to" situation.

"Peoples park as a central gathering and living space for the homeless."

I understand what they were saying by this since i lived by many parks where this occurred there were many homeless who lived at parks and most of the time scared the children away.

My ideal Place

My ideal work space would be one of the most relaxing yet most studious places I could have.  It would begin with a very well lit room. The main light in the morning/afternoons would come from a skylight at the top of the room, and windows all over the room they would be bay windows. The indoor lights would come from mainly from some very professional looking lamps around the room. They would mainly be black. The paint in the room would mainly consist of a forest green color with white at the top and bottom of the walls. The walls would consist of posters of band that I like and things pictures of family, my girlfriend and friends. Then the floors would be a dark shade of wood which would give the room a rustic look. Finally the work area would consist of a black desk that is very big with a lot of cubbies great for storage. Then of course I would have a lazy boy as my chair so when I would want to sleep, I have my chair ready for me to sleep. My desk would have the essentials like high lighters, pens, pencils and of course a Mac desktop computer.  The last thing that I would have would be a surround system all over the room. So I could listen to all of my music while I am doing my work.

I chose the design I did for my place because I wanted a place that I could say it is how I desire and how I would want. I enjoy comfort and the color green, regardless of the shade, it makes me smile. I chose the windows that way because I like having a view when I work, since when I’m really busy I like to relax a bit and stare out the window. So the many windows would be a great thing to do. The floor I chose, well honestly I just like it since it pulled off the rustic look. I chose the computer and since it is one of the best computers out there. It is a MAC and that means no viruses and that will with future expenses with computer problems. The desk I chose well a huge desk that would help a lot since I know I am a messy person and like to have a lot of my papers and folders and books on my desk while I am doing my work. Also the storage compartments in the desk would be very helpful to put important papers that I don’t need at the moment, they would be very good for filing. One of the most important things that I thought of putting would be the surround sound system. Music is one of my favorite things in the world and would like to have it in my ideal workspace since it gets me into what I am doing at the moment. As you can see my ideal room has a reason for all of the things that I want.

My Study Place

My study space is in my dorm. I live at the CSUN dorms and I share a room with another person. My side consists of the bed my desk, a drawer, and cabinets. I usually do my homework on my desk since I have a chair to sit on and it is most convenient when I need a hard surface. I can honestly say I enjoy doing my homework there because it is the place I can concentrate the most since living in the freshman dorms is very loud and full of distractions.  One of my favorite things about my study space is how close it is to the fridge in my room. Whenever I am craving a snack or something I just reach in there and pull something out. Another aspect that I like about my study space is that I have a place to relax, meaning my bed. Everyone gets bored or tired while doing homework or studying for a test, so what’s better than having your bed there when you take a rest? One of my favorite parts of my study space is my wall. It has pictures of me and my girlfriend and of things that I like and letter that have been given to me.  It’s good in the sense that it motivates you to do things when you see all the things on your wall. I enjoy having all of these things in my wall.  The lighting in my room is actually really good, I have a light that shines directly above my desk which makes it easier to read and do my homework even while my roommate is asleep. Another one of the good things that my study space has to offer is the view I get when I look out the window, it looks directly into the mountains and to me that is such a good view especially on a sunny day. The most favorite thing I like about my study space I the fact that I can play any music that I want. I love music and especially when I have to do school work for some reason it helps me concentrate a lot more. One of the things I dislike about my study space is that my neighbors are very noisy. On either side of my room I have neighbors that like to play their music loudly, and that sometimes can become very distracting. Another thing I hate about my study place is that it is in the dorms. Since we all know that dorm rooms are not the most study appropriate places to study since you have so different distraction that will either make you procrastinate and/or not do your work. I can say that this has happened to me, I had become distracted with playing Black Ops that I forgot three math assignments were due and I didn't get them done on time. I turned them in late and got no credit. So it is easy to get distracted even in my study place. Over all I love my study place and I would not want to change it.

Intro/thesis

Social networking has become a part of everyday life. But in some cases it takes over of what and who you are. Losing your privacy online at a social networking site is one of the most common ways to lose who you are. Common sites just like Facebook, Twitter, tumblr are just a few of what are so common of an invasion of privacy. We see the invasion on our profile, or even cyber stalkers.  I believe the invasion of privacy due to social networking is such a big issue that is very negative towards our own persona, since it could lead to such horrid consequences.

The End to a New Beginning

The End to a New Beginning

In the times where humans were in charge, which was so long ago, things were good. Children could frolic in the streets adults could go out to dates to see the world and be able to enjoy everything they could. But now, sadly we are reduced to this, a lonely cave hiding from them.  Having to scavenge for our food and continuously be on the lookout is the life we lead now. My name is Dr. James Ryan. I am the cause for this, I created these machines to help humanity, but instead they became self-aware. It is a long story but I’ll start from the beginning since we have all the time in the world and nothing to do but wait.

            In 2013 I introduced the first walking robot that could solve a problem in mere seconds. He became more like a friend to me, someone that could help me in any situation, form love to work. My wife soon became jealous because once I created him I neglected him and my children. I did not realize it until it was too late. The government was asking and asking for this technology, so soon enough these robots were all over, in our houses, in our buildings doing human jobs. This seemed like the robots were taking over the lives of human. The point was for them to make things easier for us. I still had the original and he was the best, however he started to show some type of emotions, mainly jealousy. One day I got home and my wife was angry that I hadn’t been home because of work; it had been over a week. So I decided to stay at home for a couple days, Sam, my robot, realized I hadn’t come to work and came to my house and saw I was enjoying time with my family. I’m guessing the fact he was becoming emotionally aware made him very jealous, and wanted me only to him. I came to work days later and Sam wasn’t there. I then received my family had been murdered.
            When I got to my house my wife and children weren’t there, the police had only one suspect and he was apprehended, it was Sam. I cried my love and my children were gone from this world. His name was cleared someway since some hair that Sam planted made the police direct their suspicions somewhere else.  I looked at Sam and all he said is Now you don’t have to worry about anyone but me. When I heard that I became scared and very distant. Once Sam realized that he started to create hate for me. Soon enough it was too much. Sam tried to kill me, while I was in my sleep but luckily I was able to escape. I was scared for my life so I asked for Sam’s arrest, when the police tried to apprehend him he attacked them. Then this is what started everything. Another robot in the street saw this and sparked something within him and made him follow Sam. Then more and more robots started to attack more people since they saw how they were able to overcome and give the orders instead of taking them due to fear. The robots were taking control and everyone became very scared. Everyone looked at me for an answer and that is all I worked on.
            The answer never came when I started to find something the robots would come in and destroy my lab and kill my scientists. It was useless to try anything since they would find a reason to destroy it. Then Sam found me one day and said, Doctor all I want is t be your only friend and if I can’t have that then you are going to die, I am protecting you without me the other robots will kill you, so will you choose me or the human’s. I of course choose the humans and Sam walked away since then I haven’t seen him. But other robots have been after me.
            This dragged on for years, it is now 2026 we have been in a machine and human war for 10 years now, we are reduced to live in this cave, but I’m scared that they will find us one day. Sam the ultimate creation that i made in my life is the downfall of humanity I am deeply saddened by this. All that is left is for me to find a way. I think I found it. Well I hope I did, this is my last chance…. No wait not this. The military is planning to drop an atomic bomb over the war zone; they are disregarding the lives of children and all of us. No I found a way I found a way, don’t do it….I am sorry….Those were the last words of Dr. James Ryan, after that apology the bomb was dropped and wiped out 97% of humanity, but won the war, but at what cost.  All that was left now was for the 3% to rebuild and start life all over again.
“It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity.”

  ~Albert Einstein

The Experience Machine

The Experience Machine is an article about imagining if there was a machine that could give you any experience that you could desire. That is very amazing actually. It would be a brain stimulation that could make you feel like you were in a great novel or making a new friend or doing anything. It would all be done while floating in a tank. It would be like picking and choosing experiences from a large library of experiences. Even though you wouldn’t know that you are in the tank, you’ll think that it is actually happening. This would be very amazing but something that I would not want to do, because I want to be able to live my life and not have a machine do it for me. 

“What else can matter to us, other than how our lives feel from the inside?”
This quote is very significant by the way that we all want o live our lives but the most important way to live our lives is through our own experiences and our feeling and we do thing on the inside like humans.

“Should you plug into this machine for life, programming your life experiences?”

This quote is significant since it tells you that you pretty much attaching yourself to the machine so that you can live and have experiences through there. I believe that is the incorrect way. I think no one should have to connect themselves to something like that, unless you are in a coma or something like that.

1) What made you write about a machine with these capabilities?

2) Would  you connect to this machine?

The Veldt

I really like the story of The Veldt. It has to do with a family whom invested in a smart house.  Inside the smart house there were so many machines that can pretty much do almost anything for someone.  There was also a room in the house called The Veldt, which recreated anything someone could dream of so this place was almost like a nursery which in fact is very good for the children. Which I thought was very amazing. Who wouldn’t want to have a room like that in their childhood? I know I would have. It would be so fun. I’m sure. Soon enough the kids enjoyed the room more and were punished from it and the kids just like any other kids in this world were throwing fits and being children about wanting it back.  When I read this story it was very entertaining seeing how a house could be so advance and that is how technology will pretty much end up. I don’t doubt it at all, since we see new advances each and every day from phones to appliances to even running equipment. My friend the other day had some addidas that are meant for running since the have a chip that will tell you how well you are doing and what you need to improve on. That was pretty fascinating to me. I just think technology itself has gone too far to the point where it will eventually run us at a certain point. Look at SIRI for example a self-learning machine it reminds me of the veldt since whatever you ask SIRI it provides an answer for you, just like the nursery room for the children whatever they thought it would come true for them. Which is something I find amazing since technology now pretty much is a thought away. Sometimes I worry and I think what will happen to the later generations, they will only know how to do things by machines and then what if machines fail one day how will they do things? This story is very interesting; I understand who wouldn’t want a house that is a “Smart House” but in the long run you must get it through your head that sometime that it will be wanted more than you sometimes and appreciated more as well.

QUESTIONS

1. What is the significance of the posters that
read: BIG BROTHER IS WATCHING YOU? Who is Big Brother?

The significance is dont do anything bad becasue big brother is watching you and he'll know if you did something. It is the whole Panopticon perspective.

2. Where do we see evidence of panopticism in the

novel?

We see it with the big brother poster becasue it is like he is folling you around while being in one spot. 

3. What is the telescreen, how is it used and what
is its purpose?

Its a two way microphone/visual to see and tell people what to do.

4. What is the significance of the Party slogans: WAR
IS PEACE, FREEDOM IS SLAVERY, IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH?

It is pretty much propaganda trying to change the way people think so that they can only think the way the government  wants them to think.

5. Who are the Thought Police and what do they do?

The thought police are people who can see your thoughts while your thinking them. 

6. What is the Two Minutes Hate and what is its
purpose?

It is a dreaded thing by the people who are caught by the thought police. It is like brainwashing.

7. Why does Winston begin writing in the diary?

Since that is the way that he can remember things that happened 

8. How would you feel if you lived in this world?

I would not like it there would be way to many restrictions for me as a person.

9. In what ways is our world like this world?

Well this is like our world since the begining there is always someone watching us regardless, just like the big broither poster. And the government is always trying to monitor us and trying to tell us what to think but we have the freedom of choice which is the big difference.

10. Do you think it’s possible that our world could
become like this one in the future? In what ways?

I honestly dont think the world could get like this, a lot would have to go wrong so that we all end up in a world like this. Like police men they're not always there but we are always cautious about them.

Bonus: What is Orwell’s purpose in writing this
novel?

Bonus II: What is totalitarianism?
it is the absolute control by the state or a governing branch of ahighly centralized institution.

Panopticon

When i read the article and graphic novels title i didnt know what it mean, it was pretty weird i had never heard that word before. I actually was intrigued by what it meant then the graphic novel spoke for itself and it was very intriguing at the same time. I understand how the internet is taken some times and it is very important not to see it  as a game . It is something very useful. When we see the internet we can see power and how interesting it is to people. But then we all know when we put to much of our information into certain parts we can have bad things happen to our life. For example money issues, we can hit bankruptcy with putting our credit/debit card numbers int he wrong websites and they will take over our identity starting with that bunch of numbers. Its quite dumb how the internet doesn't enforce such privacy. The privacy is what we need and sometimes i am scared to buy things online cause i don't know if i should be putting my information down.Sometimes people just have to be more cautious of what they are doing online. Since they're have been so many advancements in the internet we can be who ever we want and get away with it it might sound like a new life for some but for most its all just some game.Some people track others through internet connection and that's how accidents happen. These articles are very intriguing and they fascinated me with how people know how dangerous the internet can be and the still do what they regularly do.That is why i believe that internet usage should be used to its full potential, since its full potential can be the downfall of our lives in general.

Artificial Minds and humans being like Machines.

Well the articles of artificial minds and humans like machines are really good. They tell you how things are actually becoming now a days. They are true like in the article about humans being like machines states how images have become closer to looking like machines. Which is one of the most fascinating things i took from this article. Machines have taken over and will continue since technology keep on continuing as well. Its a shame since humanities potential without machinery can be so great. What happened to the times where machines weren't needed. It is contradictory i know since i am using a machine to write this but still its makes some sort of sense since this could be written with pencil. i liked what artificial minds said about machines being built to have minds just like humans do. Could the terminator movies be real who knows but as we see now technology keeps increasing and machines learn as they go for example "SIRI" on the Iphone. Clearly it shows an artificial mind.But who knows how far technology will increase just like artificial minds talked about the matrix that movie shows exactly how an artificial mind could work. Computers don't have minds that is correct but they way they are built sure makes it seem like they do. Don't you think? It honestly puts everything in perspective and it makes me think if i really want technology to keep increasing. These articles are very controversial in what they state yet they are very intresting to think about.