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Self Driving Car - (Thoughts on a Topic NOT Presented by your group)

In 2007, Walt Disney surprised the audience with a fiction movie called “Meet the Robinsons” by its scenes about the future life and one of the most impressive scenes of the movie is how the cars of the future work. Technology has been developed every day that the dream of having a self-driving car comes really close to us nowadays. If self-driving car become popular in the future, there will be a lot of advantages by increasing safety and travel demand for the occupants, shifting the way people think about ownership comes along with the disadvantages such as false sense of security and rushing design which leads to fatal accidents. There are many researchers agree that self-driving cars will be much safer than normal cars because of lacks distracted and error-prone human. About more than 90% traffic accident are caused by people and using a self-driving car can decrease the percentage of unwanted accidents. Moreover, self-driving cars have faster reactions than human which can becom

Extra Credit - 1000 True Fans

1000 true fans is a really great business idea by Kevin Kelly. True fans here are people who will always likely to buy your product. And with specific number of true fans it can be easy to have a steady income. Moreover, it will be not too difficult to calculate what your income might be. 1000 true fans focus on quality instead of quantity. If you have a certain amount of “true fans” that would always come back to you when you have new product, then it is way better than when you have a lot of people buying your product at first but then they never come back again. Let take Apple for example, Apple company is currently a company having the biggest number of “true fans” we can see it by their product selling record. They are known as “Apple fans”, Apple fans are more likely to change or upgrade their new phone every year when new product come out. And no matter how many bad review or criticism articles about Apple new product, the true fans will always support and buying the product.

Artificial Intelligence

As the world is becoming more and more develop, technology has influenced the way we live every day. We are lacking of communication and dependent on our gadgets like laptops, phones, televisions, Ipad, etc. With the continuous developing of technology, the artificial intelligence appears like an announce to human that “Nothing human can do that computer cannot”. Artificial Intelligence which stands for AI is machine intelligence which contrasts with the natural intelligence. AI is the theory and computer system development that it is able to perform visual perception, speech recognition, translation and decision making like the abilities human and animals have. AI enable the gadgets to do command by its own and it’s simply divided to 2 kinds, each of them has different functions. Firstly, Narrow AI performs simple tasks like face recognition, voice recognition and command while the second one General AI allows the gadgets to perform cognitive tasks. This means the device can have th

Startup.com

govWorks was a dotcom company founded by Kaleil Isaza Tuzman and Tom Herman with other 8 employees in May 1998 which was also known as Public Data System. GovWorks enable the citizens in local communities to access and pay for their traffic infractions, tax payments, business and recreational permit applications, government records retrieval and voter registration by using the govWorks transaction-processing middleware products. The idea of the company stated when Tuzman found his two-year-old ticket in his apartment in New York and he thought that it could be a great idea if he could offer a service that give the citizen the ability to enter the Internet portal and pay for the fees. One of his friends whose named Tom Herman was a quiet, introspective and tough man, graduated from Bates College with a degree in Psychology and Computer Science shared Tuz man's dream in making money. Later, he became the CEO, co-founder and the Chief Technology Officer for govWorks, he responsibl

Information Technology Topic To Report On

Information technology is an interesting topic to discuss about. IT is stand for Information Technology and it is being pronounced as separated letter. It is not only a computer and networks, instead it is layering of systems in organization which is included physically hardware, storage, databases, operating system, etc. Simply, Information Technology is the technology which is being used to store, exchange, apply and create information. With what we are having nowadays, we all know the direction the world is heading in the next few years, or in another way of saying is how the world is going to be in the future. So somehow, we are aware of the importance of Information Technology in our daily life. Without it, the society wouldn’t have been as convenient and smart as the one we are living in today. We can use IT to enable working from home and not having to stay at the office all the time which makes the work become easy, flexible and capable. Moreover, it can also bring job oppo

What Happen To Journalism

Journalism is the activity which includes all gathering, processing, creating, informing news and information from the sources to the readers. It refers to production of reports on recent events or problems which are social concerning. Journalism has various forms throughout centuries: newsreels, handwriting, print, television, radio and now is the Internet. Moreover, the true journalism has been dying day by day since social media and fake news increasing every day. Nowadays, our world is developing and becoming smarter, virtual world has strong growth and popular as the rise of the user demand. People tend to look up on the phone every time, they spend their day chatting and reading tabloids to entertain their personal life, journalism is in very danger. How can readers know where to trust? Which sources do the writer of those tabloids use to create news? Frankly, we can’t deny the fact that what we are using to entertain today is not trustworthy because instead of informing the au

Web Pages

As the world is now developing and heading to a technologically advanced society, World Wide Web has become one of the most valuable and helpful tools in our working environment as well as our daily life. It is an information space in which include types of documents and sources by the Uniform Resource Locators (URLs). World Wide Web allows different documents connect to each other’s by the hypertext links which are typically activated by mouse clicks, key press or touching screen in order to enable the user look up for the information they need. Without World Wide Web, there wouldn’t be Internet or even Web Pages that we are using today. Web Pages are text documents or may even contain images, video, audio which is formatted and annotated with HTML in the user’s web browser as coherent pages of multimedia content. HTML is stand for Hypertext Markup Language that is known for the standard markup language for creating Web pages. HTML describes the structure of Web Pages using the mark