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10/28/2017 0 Comments *global health* I have read an article about pandemics and epidemics. Our classmates and I have discussed about that should people collaborate to find solution or restrict to promote safety. This is quite difficult question to conclude. However, in my opinion, for preventing pandemics and epidemics, people need restriction more than collaboration. I have three reasons why I think people need restriction more than collaboration.
Firstly, restriction prevent spreading out virus. If people collaborate and try to share virus to make vaccine of the virus, the virus is likely to spread out. Even if it is not on purpose, people should prevent the possibility of spreading out virus. If the virus is evil and incurable such as HIV or SARS, it becomes pandemic. People mustn’t do this and try hard to prevent this situation. In addition, if scientists or countries collaborate, someone or some country might use the virus in bad way. For example, someone or some country try to spread out or threaten people by using evil virus. If some bad guy get terrible virus, it will be nightmare. The possibility of this case might be low, but it is possible. People not only have to think about benefit of collaboration, but also people have to think about terrible situation. Finally, if government restrict use or sharing the virus, people can’t get the virus easily. If government allow countries or scientists to use or share virus, people could get virus easily. It might be cause of terrorism or terrible situation. If terrorists get terrible virus, it will be terrible problem. In Japan, there was a terrible case of terrorism of virus. It is called Subway Sarin Gas Attack. The virus killed a lot of people. People have to try to stop this kind of cases. In conclusion, people need restriction more than collaboration. Of course, if scientists or countries collaborate for new vaccines, it makes the scientists or countries find ways of creating new vaccine easily. However, the collaboration might be cause of spreading out virus, and it might be pandemics or epidemics. Therefore, people should restrict.
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10/19/2017 0 Comments *artificial intelligence*Nowadays, technology makes people’s life comfortable. Smartphone makes people connect easily and many machines make productivity efficient. However, the technology could break and destroy our lives if people are making smart technology continuously without concerns. Technology such as AI could become smarter than human. When it comes to prevent smarter technology than human, it is more difficult than imagine.
When I was elementary school student, I watched a movie which is called IROBOT. It was released in 2004. The movie is that robots support people’s lives in 2035. They support people and make people’s lives comfortable. People made the robots not to hurt people. However, the robots become smarter than human and they try to think about they attacke human and invade earth. When I watched this movie, I was sure that it wouldn’t happen in the future. When I was elementary school student, people didn’t have even iPhone or Android. Therefore, I didn’t imagine I could speak computer after a few years like Siri. I thought it is just a movie. However, today, we can make conversation with robots a little bit and today, I can imagine robots might be smarter than us and attack people’s life. What I mean is the speed of technology revolution is so fast. In my opinion, if people want to smart technology, it is not hard for human to make machine which is smarter than human. It won’t take long to make it. In conclusion, technology could break and destroy our lives if people are making smart machines continuously without concerns. Technology definitely helped us to make our lives comfortable. However, people should think about making smart machine such as AI deeply and people should be afraid of that technology could destroy our lives because people can make smart technology which is smarter than human easily. 10/8/2017 0 Comments *new technology revolution* Nowadays, people use technology in daily life. It is common for people to use technology every day. Even little children and elderly people use many technologies. That is because of technology revolution. It made our life more convenient. However, technology revolution doesn’t always make our life better. Sometimes, it threatens our life. I read an article which is The Next Technology Revolution Will Drive And Income Disparity. I would like to share the author’s concerns for some reasons.
Recently, machine learning is making rapid progress in complex decision-making. It is becoming more sophisticated and nuanced than trained human judgement and it might will exceed human judgement in a few areas. Technology revolution such as smartphone or laptop made people life better. Smartphone allow people to get contact easily and laptop allow people to carry computer easily. However, machine learning revolution might be not positive revolution. The author said if machine learning technologies become superior in both intelligence and the knowledge relevant to a particular job, human employees may be rendered unnecessary or in the very least, they will be in far less demand and command lower pay. I agree this idea. If car driver become technology instead of human, many car drivers lose their job and they have to look for another job. Moreover, if many jobs displaced, many people lose their jobs and jobs become not enough. In addition, the author said efficiency in the business world generally means reducing costs, which results in using fewer well paid. I agree with this idea as well. The technology could increase productivity and abundance, however, it means people can’t get well-paid because the development makes costs lower and lower. Efficiency is important in the business, but it doesn’t mean machine have to do everything to make efficiency better. People needs jobs and people have to earn money. Technology should to be used for people’s life better, not deprive jobs from human. Finally, in my opinion, computer can make better decision in some areas, but human have to make decision in some areas as well. For example, politics. If technology manages politics or some important areas, people will be controlled by technology like AI. In conclusion, technology revolution doesn’t always make our life better and I share the author’s concern. Technology revolution is important for our life and we should keep improving our life by technology. However, people should think about carefully whether the technology revolution makes our life better or not before use it. |
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