Chapter 1: 1.3-1.4

Name Matt Halla Class
time: 1100-1150
KEEP THIS
TO 1-3 – PAGES LONG (excluding reference page)

Author: Sara
Basse
Date of
Publication: 2008
Book: The
Gift of Fire
Sections
read: 1.3-1.4

1.
(Knowledge)Tell
three interesting elements of this chapter:
a.
Because of ATMs, bank teller jobs decreased
from 480,000 to 301,000 in 10 years, but a few years later in rose up to
600,000 in about 10 years.
b.
At an ATM for a large New York bank 150,000
transactions equaling about 15 million dollars were incorrectly recorded
c.
Japanese candidates in 2005 were afraid to
use email and blogs to update their websites to communicate because there was a
law against it.

2.
(Comprehension)
Summarize what is being discussed within this chapter?

This chapter
talks about how technology has changed our society in good and bad ways. In some
parts, it cost people their jobs but a different view is it made things easier
for us to go through our routines. ATMs took the place of many bank tellers but
they also allowed banks to expand and eventually add more branches and give
jobs back to the community. ATMs also raised crime by people stealing from ATM
users. The web has made it easier to communicate with people from around the
world but it also helped criminals find more wasy to steal from people by using
scams.


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?

There is a
spam email that goes out to many people that says some great king or ruler in
another country has left them money and they just need to send their
information and can get millions of dollars. There have been many people that
have fallen for this and lost a lot of money. These criminals that set up this
scam know that most recipients will not respond but for the few that do they
get what they want, your money.


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.

You can
compare this situation to how most of the stores we shop at are now worldwide
or nationwide when before they were just little mom and pop stores. Commercial stores
like Wal-Mart have taken over because they can supply the same goods that were
in many stores in one store. The fact that this conglomerate can take over and
put more than one store out of business because they can fit many more sections
in one store than a specialty store would be a down side just like ATMs taking
jobs from people. On the other side you just have to stop at one store instead
of driving or walking to 3 or more.

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
this section of the chapter because it has many examples of how technology has
taken and given. It has given us an easier way of doing things but it also has
taken jobs from people and still has errors that we need to fix. We also have
lost some of our privacy because of this, if you look around there are cameras
almost everywhere. There is always someone watching you whether it’s in a store
or even just searching something on the internet. This has taken some of our
privacies away but at the same time it is helping to protect us from any
threats that we may see.

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 is defiantly
relevant to today’s society because you can see just by walking around in a
store that there are cameras everywhere, the patriot act that was sent through
allows our government to watch us and what we look at online and the phone. The
problems we are facing today we have been facing in some way or another for
some time. There isn’t many new problems, just the ones that we didn’t solve
completely and now they are back in a different form, but with the same issue.