Virtual Worlds, Who Uses Them?
Anyone can join a virtual community. The question is why would they? Isn’t the world we live in full of enough things to do?
A virtual world is a computer based simulated environment that users interact with one another and create objects. People take their form in what is called an Avatar. Avatars can be created to look like the individuals that are participating or can be imagined characters of the users.
Business people create Avatars of them and meet in designed areas that simulate meeting rooms. This is a way for business people to have a personal interaction if coworkers are located in different states or countries.
The same situations and interactions can go on in Second Life virtual world that can go on in the real world. Eating dinner, shopping, sexual relations, any form of communication. In the virtual world anything can go on. There are no laws in Second Life.
Life is stressful on a daily basis. My question would be why would anybody other than business people want to double up on interactions on a daily basis. Some have virtual jobs, and children and husbands. These others aren’t their real world interactions with people they know often, in essence a woman or man that starts an affair online in Second Life is in all actuality having a real affair because on the other end of the computer there is a real person controlling the Avatar they are interacting with.
The way I see things that interaction would only complicate real life. Those interactions that aren’t for business purposes take time away from daily life and in person interactions.
The other point of view would be that Second Life fulfills the need to vent or relax from the stresses of daily life by creating a perfect world for one’s self. This would allow people to create a fantasy life that would help them cope with the harsh realities of their real life.
The communication is through texting and VoIP voice services.
I being born in 1962 the concept of second life is something that I never could have imagined and find the concept very abstract.
Friday, February 19, 2010
Monday, February 15, 2010
Google to Build a Fiber Optic Network in the United States
Google to Build a Fiber Optic Network in the United States
Fiber Optics are long, thin strands of very pure glass about the diameter of a human hair. They are arranged in bundles called optical cables and are used to transmit light signals over long distances. Hundreds or thousands of these optical fibers are arranged in bundles in optical cables. The bundles are protected by the cable's outer covering, called a jacket.
Fiber optics is used in the cable, television and phone lines. High speed internet use fiber optics to speed up internet connections.
Google has plans to build a fiber-optic network offering speeds of up to 1Gbps (gigabit per second) to up to 500,000 homes in the United States. Google plans to offer service at a very competitive price and offer internet speeds more than 100 times faster than what most Americans have access to today.
I, being a child born in 1962 am amazed at the technology there is today. My parents had a party line that we shared with a neighbor to be able to make phone calls. The type of wire that was used to communicate by phone in 1962 was made of metal wires bundled together. Often times when making a phone call you could hear the neighbor pick the phone up and listen to your conversation. Often times they would repeatedly pick the phone up over and over to let you know they wanted to make a call. If you were waiting on an important phone call to come in you had to hope the neighbor wasn’t using the phone lines, or the call would be missed. There was no voice mail available at that time. Phone calls are now sent and received over a fiber optic network. There is clear sound quality.
Television was able to be viewed in 1962 by an analog signal being sent out into the airways and picked up by a receiver made out of tubes to project transmission onto the television set.
The analog system was eliminated in the United States in 2009. Americans now view their televisions through a fiber optic digital network. The picture is clearer and the sound quality is better than the analog system.
At&T and Verizon both have fiber optic networks in place and plan on expanding them this year. Google feels that they will be able to offer a faster fiber optic network for computer use at a lower price tag than the other competitors.
This attempt by Google should prove once again to\change the way Americans communicate.
Fiber Optics are long, thin strands of very pure glass about the diameter of a human hair. They are arranged in bundles called optical cables and are used to transmit light signals over long distances. Hundreds or thousands of these optical fibers are arranged in bundles in optical cables. The bundles are protected by the cable's outer covering, called a jacket.
Fiber optics is used in the cable, television and phone lines. High speed internet use fiber optics to speed up internet connections.
Google has plans to build a fiber-optic network offering speeds of up to 1Gbps (gigabit per second) to up to 500,000 homes in the United States. Google plans to offer service at a very competitive price and offer internet speeds more than 100 times faster than what most Americans have access to today.
I, being a child born in 1962 am amazed at the technology there is today. My parents had a party line that we shared with a neighbor to be able to make phone calls. The type of wire that was used to communicate by phone in 1962 was made of metal wires bundled together. Often times when making a phone call you could hear the neighbor pick the phone up and listen to your conversation. Often times they would repeatedly pick the phone up over and over to let you know they wanted to make a call. If you were waiting on an important phone call to come in you had to hope the neighbor wasn’t using the phone lines, or the call would be missed. There was no voice mail available at that time. Phone calls are now sent and received over a fiber optic network. There is clear sound quality.
Television was able to be viewed in 1962 by an analog signal being sent out into the airways and picked up by a receiver made out of tubes to project transmission onto the television set.
The analog system was eliminated in the United States in 2009. Americans now view their televisions through a fiber optic digital network. The picture is clearer and the sound quality is better than the analog system.
At&T and Verizon both have fiber optic networks in place and plan on expanding them this year. Google feels that they will be able to offer a faster fiber optic network for computer use at a lower price tag than the other competitors.
This attempt by Google should prove once again to\change the way Americans communicate.
Wednesday, February 10, 2010
Will Robots One Day Procreate?
February 10, 2010 I am amazed that I am writing again about something that has evolved into daily life for many people. I just did not imagine that Robots would ever effect or be a part of my lifetime. To me Robots were funny things that were imaginary that I watched on my favorite cartoon the Jetsons or Lost in Space. The Jetsons and Lost In Space were 1960’s television programs that were fictional and pure entertainment to stretch the imagination. Robots to me were fun imaginary abstracts. I recall thinking when I watched the Wizard of Oz that the tin man seemed to move and act like the Robots on the Jetsons. The movement was stiff and abstract. I was born in 1962 and I had no knowledge that robots of any form existed. Robots did exist but not in the form depicted on Lost In Space or The Jetsons. The development of robots has been documented to give us a timeline that I have listed in chronological order. It is as follows. Robots have been documented to have been around in one form or another since 270BC. An ancient Greek engineer named Ctesibus made organs and water clocks with movable figures. In 1918 author Mary Shelley wrote "Frankenstein" which was about a frightening artificial life form created by Dr. Frankenstein. In 1921 the term "robot" was first used in a play called "R.U.R." or "Rossum's Universal Robots" by the Czech writer Karel Capek. The plot was simple: man makes robot then robot kills man. In 1941 Science fiction writer Isaac Asimov first used the word "robotics" to describe the technology of robots and predicted the rise of a powerful robot industry. In 1942 Asimov wrote “Runaround", a story about robots which contained the "Three Laws of Robotics": (1.) A robot may not injure a human, or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm. (2.) A robot must obey the orders it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the First Law. (3.) A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Law. In 1948 “Cybernetics", an influence on artificial intelligence research was published by Norbert Wiener In 1956 George Devol and Joseph Engelberger formed the world's first robot company. In 1959 Computer-assisted manufacturing was demonstrated at the Servomechanisms Lab at MIT. In 1961 the first industrial robot was online in a General Motors automobile factory in New Jersey. It was called UNIMATE. In 1963 the first artificial robotic arm to be controlled by a computer was designed. The Rancho Arm was designed as a tool for the handicapped and its six joints gave it the flexibility of a human arm. In 1965 DENDRAL was the first expert system or program designed to execute the accumulated knowledge of subject experts. In 1968 the octopus-like Tentacle Arm was developed by Marvin Minsk. In 1969 the Stanford Arm was the first electrically powered, computer-controlled robot arm. In 1970 Shakey was introduced as the first mobile robot controlled by artificial intelligence. Shakey was produced by SRI International. In 1974 a robotic arm (the Silver Arm), that performed small-parts assembly using feedback from touch and pressure sensors was designed. In 1979 The Stanford Cart crossed a chair-filled room without human assistance. The cart had a TV camera mounted on a rail which took pictures from multiple angles and relayed them to a computer. The computer analyzed the distance between the cart and the obstacles. A robot is by definition “an automatic device that performs functions normally ascribed to humans or a machine in the form of a human." The inspiration for the design of a robot manipulator is the human arm, but with some differences. For example, a robot arm can extend by telescoping, by sliding cylindrical sections one over another to lengthen the arm. Robot arms also can be constructed so that they bend. Grippers are designed to mimic the function and structure of the human hand. Many robots are equipped with special grippers to grasp devices such as a rack of test tubes or an arc-welder. The joints of a robotic arm are usually driven by electric motors. In most robots, the gripper is moved from one position to another, changing its orientation. A computer calculates the joint angles needed to move the gripper to the desired position this is called inverse kinematics. Some multi-jointed arms are equipped with feedback controllers that receive input from a computer. Each joint in the arm has a device to measure its angle and send that calculation to the controller. If the actual angle of the arm does not equal the calculated angle for the wanted position, the controller moves the joint until the arm's angle matches the calculated angle. Controllers and associated computers have to process sensor information. Cameras are used that locate objects to be grasped, or they or they have to touch sensors on grippers that regulate the grasping force. Any robot designed to move in an unstructured or unknown environment will require many sensors and controls. The sensors are called ultrasonic or infrared sensors. These are the sensors that help the robots to avoid obstacles. Some Robots at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) need a lot of sensors and powerful onboard computers to process the information that allows them to move. Like the planetary rovers that walk on the planet’s surface. This is particularly true for robots designed to work in closely with human beings. Especially robots that assist people with disabilities and robots that delivers meals in a hospital. Safety must be a priority to the design of robots that are involved in human service. Biomedical engineers developed a robotic arm to very precisely resurface the knee before replacing it. In order to do this, a 3-D image of the knee is generated, providing a live-action view of the knee during surgery. A stereo camera system constantly updates surgeons on the location of the diseased portion of the knee. Doing so keeps the healthy parts untouched. Visual alarms and artificial resistance tell the surgeons when they are too close to healthy parts. After the resurfacing is done, the implant is placed.
There were 700,000 robots in the industrial world in 1995 and over 500,000 were used in Japan. There were 120,000 robots used in Industry in Western Europe and 60,000 in the United States and many were doing tasks to dangerous or unpleasant for humans. Some of the hazardous jobs are handling material such a blood or urine samples, searching building for fugitives and deep water search. Robots were also doing some jobs that are repetitive motion. These robots can be run 24hrs a day without getting tired. General Motors Corporation uses these robots for spot welding, painting, machine loading, parts transfer, and assembly. Assembly lines have been the fastest growing area for use of robots because of higher precision. This leads to lower cost for labor. Robotics produces higher quality work. Many manufacturing jobs have been lost to the use of robots instead of people. There now exist robots that vacuum our floors, have humanlike behavior in video games. Some guard against swimming pool drowning. Some respond to our voice commands in some automobile models, and provide us with directory assistance and sometimes, guide us through voice mail procedures. The autonomous robots have their own intrinsic intelligence to meet whatever level of control is handed down from the user. These robots operate from a wide variety of platforms. All-terrain vehicles to submersible robots or even whole colonies of interactive robots, each smaller than a human hand. The trait common to all these systems is the ability to share intuitively between human and machine. This permits the system to cope with interruptions in communication links and component failures, and changes in operator workload, resources. Also changes in mission requirements.
There are lawn robots that operate automatically using sophisticated computer and a perimeter wire to determine when and where to cut the lawn. The lawn mowing robot can move freely within an enclosed area, detecting the faint signal from its transmitter to tell it where and where not to mow. The lawn robot can also operate in an area without a perimeter wire in an enclosed area utilizing a fence or small border at least 4 inches tall. This is a clear example of an autonomous robot. "In 20 years, we've gone from robots that can hardly maneuver around objects to ones that can navigate in unstructured environments,” There is also the Roomba, the automated vacuum cleaner. Robots have been produced with human like characteristics and are being prototyped to mimic personality characteristics. There are people working on what is called an Android that some people fear will replace some human interaction. Some have speculated on the idea that some will interact with the Androids sexually. Some people feel that we will be intermingled with robots in the near future that the thought of making love to a robot will not seem strange. Experts feel a flesh-and-steel robot that feels looks and sounds like a human would have more marketability than online chat rooms that replace physical interactions.
This morning I was checking my Face book and a friend sent me a link to some new information technology that he wanted to share. I have included the link in this blog, along with one I found that clearly displays our advancement.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O3ovrT8pWww&feature=player_embedded
http://dreams.honda.com/#/video_wi
February 10, 2010 I am amazed that I am writing again about something that has evolved into daily life for many people. I just did not imagine that Robots would ever effect or be a part of my lifetime. To me Robots were funny things that were imaginary that I watched on my favorite cartoon the Jetsons or Lost in Space. The Jetsons and Lost In Space were 1960’s television programs that were fictional and pure entertainment to stretch the imagination. Robots to me were fun imaginary abstracts. I recall thinking when I watched the Wizard of Oz that the tin man seemed to move and act like the Robots on the Jetsons. The movement was stiff and abstract. I was born in 1962 and I had no knowledge that robots of any form existed. Robots did exist but not in the form depicted on Lost In Space or The Jetsons. The development of robots has been documented to give us a timeline that I have listed in chronological order. It is as follows. Robots have been documented to have been around in one form or another since 270BC. An ancient Greek engineer named Ctesibus made organs and water clocks with movable figures. In 1918 author Mary Shelley wrote "Frankenstein" which was about a frightening artificial life form created by Dr. Frankenstein. In 1921 the term "robot" was first used in a play called "R.U.R." or "Rossum's Universal Robots" by the Czech writer Karel Capek. The plot was simple: man makes robot then robot kills man. In 1941 Science fiction writer Isaac Asimov first used the word "robotics" to describe the technology of robots and predicted the rise of a powerful robot industry. In 1942 Asimov wrote “Runaround", a story about robots which contained the "Three Laws of Robotics": (1.) A robot may not injure a human, or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm. (2.) A robot must obey the orders it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the First Law. (3.) A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Law. In 1948 “Cybernetics", an influence on artificial intelligence research was published by Norbert Wiener In 1956 George Devol and Joseph Engelberger formed the world's first robot company. In 1959 Computer-assisted manufacturing was demonstrated at the Servomechanisms Lab at MIT. In 1961 the first industrial robot was online in a General Motors automobile factory in New Jersey. It was called UNIMATE. In 1963 the first artificial robotic arm to be controlled by a computer was designed. The Rancho Arm was designed as a tool for the handicapped and its six joints gave it the flexibility of a human arm. In 1965 DENDRAL was the first expert system or program designed to execute the accumulated knowledge of subject experts. In 1968 the octopus-like Tentacle Arm was developed by Marvin Minsk. In 1969 the Stanford Arm was the first electrically powered, computer-controlled robot arm. In 1970 Shakey was introduced as the first mobile robot controlled by artificial intelligence. Shakey was produced by SRI International. In 1974 a robotic arm (the Silver Arm), that performed small-parts assembly using feedback from touch and pressure sensors was designed. In 1979 The Stanford Cart crossed a chair-filled room without human assistance. The cart had a TV camera mounted on a rail which took pictures from multiple angles and relayed them to a computer. The computer analyzed the distance between the cart and the obstacles. A robot is by definition “an automatic device that performs functions normally ascribed to humans or a machine in the form of a human." The inspiration for the design of a robot manipulator is the human arm, but with some differences. For example, a robot arm can extend by telescoping, by sliding cylindrical sections one over another to lengthen the arm. Robot arms also can be constructed so that they bend. Grippers are designed to mimic the function and structure of the human hand. Many robots are equipped with special grippers to grasp devices such as a rack of test tubes or an arc-welder. The joints of a robotic arm are usually driven by electric motors. In most robots, the gripper is moved from one position to another, changing its orientation. A computer calculates the joint angles needed to move the gripper to the desired position this is called inverse kinematics. Some multi-jointed arms are equipped with feedback controllers that receive input from a computer. Each joint in the arm has a device to measure its angle and send that calculation to the controller. If the actual angle of the arm does not equal the calculated angle for the wanted position, the controller moves the joint until the arm's angle matches the calculated angle. Controllers and associated computers have to process sensor information. Cameras are used that locate objects to be grasped, or they or they have to touch sensors on grippers that regulate the grasping force. Any robot designed to move in an unstructured or unknown environment will require many sensors and controls. The sensors are called ultrasonic or infrared sensors. These are the sensors that help the robots to avoid obstacles. Some Robots at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) need a lot of sensors and powerful onboard computers to process the information that allows them to move. Like the planetary rovers that walk on the planet’s surface. This is particularly true for robots designed to work in closely with human beings. Especially robots that assist people with disabilities and robots that delivers meals in a hospital. Safety must be a priority to the design of robots that are involved in human service. Biomedical engineers developed a robotic arm to very precisely resurface the knee before replacing it. In order to do this, a 3-D image of the knee is generated, providing a live-action view of the knee during surgery. A stereo camera system constantly updates surgeons on the location of the diseased portion of the knee. Doing so keeps the healthy parts untouched. Visual alarms and artificial resistance tell the surgeons when they are too close to healthy parts. After the resurfacing is done, the implant is placed.
There were 700,000 robots in the industrial world in 1995 and over 500,000 were used in Japan. There were 120,000 robots used in Industry in Western Europe and 60,000 in the United States and many were doing tasks to dangerous or unpleasant for humans. Some of the hazardous jobs are handling material such a blood or urine samples, searching building for fugitives and deep water search. Robots were also doing some jobs that are repetitive motion. These robots can be run 24hrs a day without getting tired. General Motors Corporation uses these robots for spot welding, painting, machine loading, parts transfer, and assembly. Assembly lines have been the fastest growing area for use of robots because of higher precision. This leads to lower cost for labor. Robotics produces higher quality work. Many manufacturing jobs have been lost to the use of robots instead of people. There now exist robots that vacuum our floors, have humanlike behavior in video games. Some guard against swimming pool drowning. Some respond to our voice commands in some automobile models, and provide us with directory assistance and sometimes, guide us through voice mail procedures. The autonomous robots have their own intrinsic intelligence to meet whatever level of control is handed down from the user. These robots operate from a wide variety of platforms. All-terrain vehicles to submersible robots or even whole colonies of interactive robots, each smaller than a human hand. The trait common to all these systems is the ability to share intuitively between human and machine. This permits the system to cope with interruptions in communication links and component failures, and changes in operator workload, resources. Also changes in mission requirements.
There are lawn robots that operate automatically using sophisticated computer and a perimeter wire to determine when and where to cut the lawn. The lawn mowing robot can move freely within an enclosed area, detecting the faint signal from its transmitter to tell it where and where not to mow. The lawn robot can also operate in an area without a perimeter wire in an enclosed area utilizing a fence or small border at least 4 inches tall. This is a clear example of an autonomous robot. "In 20 years, we've gone from robots that can hardly maneuver around objects to ones that can navigate in unstructured environments,” There is also the Roomba, the automated vacuum cleaner. Robots have been produced with human like characteristics and are being prototyped to mimic personality characteristics. There are people working on what is called an Android that some people fear will replace some human interaction. Some have speculated on the idea that some will interact with the Androids sexually. Some people feel that we will be intermingled with robots in the near future that the thought of making love to a robot will not seem strange. Experts feel a flesh-and-steel robot that feels looks and sounds like a human would have more marketability than online chat rooms that replace physical interactions.
This morning I was checking my Face book and a friend sent me a link to some new information technology that he wanted to share. I have included the link in this blog, along with one I found that clearly displays our advancement.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O3ovrT8pWww&feature=player_embedded
http://dreams.honda.com/#/video_wi
Sunday, February 7, 2010
Ipad
I am looking at things from the prospective of a sales person, who witnessed deregulation of long distance phone service in 1984. The local phone service market was deregulated in 2003.
I remember the capability of the long distance carrier L.C.I International which was formed in 1983. L.C.I introduced 6 second billing in 1993 to the residential land line customer.
Prior to L.C.I the billing norm for phone carriers was to round the long distance charge to residential customers to the minute. I sold long distance for L.C.I through a newly formed network marketing company called A.C.N.
Today in 2010, American Communications Network or ACN Telecommunications is a direct marketing organization that offers products like local calling service, long-distance calling, VoIP, Internet access, wireless services, electrical power, and natural gas. It is a large organization that records about half million dollars in sales every year. To put it in exact figures, ACN sells about $700 million worth of products and services every year since it was founded. To the business minded person deregulation of long distance phone service was like the gold rush of the 1800’s. Deregulation allowed millionaires to be made over night in the telecommunications industry.
I climbed on board and took a slice of the pie. I went on to sell AT&T long distance business to business in the late 1990’s. I continued to ride the telecommunications wave until 1999 when I left the telecom sales arena. During the 1990’s I was in a position to help market one of the first cell phones.
Sales of the cell phone were not made often for me, within the general public. The majority of sales that I made of cell phones were to the sales and marketing world and owners of small and medium size business owners and C.E.O’s of companies. The white collar world was also a great market for the invention called a beeper.
The beeper was able to be kept in a shirt pocket and notifications were able to be sent wirelessly. The beeper showed the phone number of the person trying to reach you and you were expected to call them back. The beeper helped to increase the sale of cell phones. The reason for the increase in cell phone sales was because if you received a beep people needed to have some way to call the person back. If people were in the car or in a public place they needed access to a phone to call the person that wanted to reach them by beeping them.
Pay phones were pretty accessible in the 1990’s. The problem with pay phones were the simple fact the you need to carry change to be able to make a call, people also had to leave their car or search for a pay phone to call the person beeping them. There were often long lines at pay phones when you were able to find them.
The prepaid phone card became popular. The prepaid phone card is a card that you can load calling minutes on and eliminate having to carry change when making a phone call from a pay phone or land line. The logical thing became to buy a cell phone to communicate. Communication Tower’s were erected to send signals to and from cell phones The beeper began to go by the wayside and cell phones came into the mainstream as a form of normal communication.
Technology has advanced in the communication world since the time cell phones became main stream. Now, there is wireless texting, unlimited range of cell phone use in most states within the United States. Technology has made our forms of communication change. Images can be sent wireless to cell phones.
The cell phone has evolved to have internet capabilities and can hold a lot of information much like a computer. The information can be shared all over the world. Last month January 2010, Apple Inc. has brought out a product that is a mobile device called the Ipad. The Ipad is meant to change the way we communicate and handle the way we get things done that need to be done for our daily life. This is all compact into a hand held device. The costs of the two versions and the capabilities of the Ipad are listed in the chart below.
IPad Wi-Fi
IPad Wi-Fi + 3G $499
$629 $599
$729 $699
$829
Color display 4:3 aspect ratio, 9.7 inch (20 cm × 15 cm) IPS LCD with LED backlight
Graphics 1024 × 768 px, 132 ppi
Processor 1 GHz Apple A4 SoC
Flash memory 16 GB, 32 GB, or 64 GB
Wireless Integrated 802.11a/b/g/n and Bluetooth 2.1 + EDR
Cellular
GPS
Sensors Accelerometer, Ambient light sensor, Digital compass
Operating system I Phone OS 3.2
Battery Built-in lithium-polymer; 25 W•h
(10 h usage, 140 h music playback,[18] one-month standby)[19]
Weight 1.5 lb (680 g) 1.6 lb (730 g)
Dimensions 9.56 in (24.3 cm) x 7.47 in (19.0 cm) x 0.5 in (1.3 cm)
Input and output
• Dock connector
• 3.5-mm stereo headphone jack
• Built-in speaker
• Microphone
Time will tell how the Ipad will change our communication on a daily basis .
I remember the capability of the long distance carrier L.C.I International which was formed in 1983. L.C.I introduced 6 second billing in 1993 to the residential land line customer.
Prior to L.C.I the billing norm for phone carriers was to round the long distance charge to residential customers to the minute. I sold long distance for L.C.I through a newly formed network marketing company called A.C.N.
Today in 2010, American Communications Network or ACN Telecommunications is a direct marketing organization that offers products like local calling service, long-distance calling, VoIP, Internet access, wireless services, electrical power, and natural gas. It is a large organization that records about half million dollars in sales every year. To put it in exact figures, ACN sells about $700 million worth of products and services every year since it was founded. To the business minded person deregulation of long distance phone service was like the gold rush of the 1800’s. Deregulation allowed millionaires to be made over night in the telecommunications industry.
I climbed on board and took a slice of the pie. I went on to sell AT&T long distance business to business in the late 1990’s. I continued to ride the telecommunications wave until 1999 when I left the telecom sales arena. During the 1990’s I was in a position to help market one of the first cell phones.
Sales of the cell phone were not made often for me, within the general public. The majority of sales that I made of cell phones were to the sales and marketing world and owners of small and medium size business owners and C.E.O’s of companies. The white collar world was also a great market for the invention called a beeper.
The beeper was able to be kept in a shirt pocket and notifications were able to be sent wirelessly. The beeper showed the phone number of the person trying to reach you and you were expected to call them back. The beeper helped to increase the sale of cell phones. The reason for the increase in cell phone sales was because if you received a beep people needed to have some way to call the person back. If people were in the car or in a public place they needed access to a phone to call the person that wanted to reach them by beeping them.
Pay phones were pretty accessible in the 1990’s. The problem with pay phones were the simple fact the you need to carry change to be able to make a call, people also had to leave their car or search for a pay phone to call the person beeping them. There were often long lines at pay phones when you were able to find them.
The prepaid phone card became popular. The prepaid phone card is a card that you can load calling minutes on and eliminate having to carry change when making a phone call from a pay phone or land line. The logical thing became to buy a cell phone to communicate. Communication Tower’s were erected to send signals to and from cell phones The beeper began to go by the wayside and cell phones came into the mainstream as a form of normal communication.
Technology has advanced in the communication world since the time cell phones became main stream. Now, there is wireless texting, unlimited range of cell phone use in most states within the United States. Technology has made our forms of communication change. Images can be sent wireless to cell phones.
The cell phone has evolved to have internet capabilities and can hold a lot of information much like a computer. The information can be shared all over the world. Last month January 2010, Apple Inc. has brought out a product that is a mobile device called the Ipad. The Ipad is meant to change the way we communicate and handle the way we get things done that need to be done for our daily life. This is all compact into a hand held device. The costs of the two versions and the capabilities of the Ipad are listed in the chart below.
IPad Wi-Fi
IPad Wi-Fi + 3G $499
$629 $599
$729 $699
$829
Color display 4:3 aspect ratio, 9.7 inch (20 cm × 15 cm) IPS LCD with LED backlight
Graphics 1024 × 768 px, 132 ppi
Processor 1 GHz Apple A4 SoC
Flash memory 16 GB, 32 GB, or 64 GB
Wireless Integrated 802.11a/b/g/n and Bluetooth 2.1 + EDR
Cellular
GPS
Sensors Accelerometer, Ambient light sensor, Digital compass
Operating system I Phone OS 3.2
Battery Built-in lithium-polymer; 25 W•h
(10 h usage, 140 h music playback,[18] one-month standby)[19]
Weight 1.5 lb (680 g) 1.6 lb (730 g)
Dimensions 9.56 in (24.3 cm) x 7.47 in (19.0 cm) x 0.5 in (1.3 cm)
Input and output
• Dock connector
• 3.5-mm stereo headphone jack
• Built-in speaker
• Microphone
Time will tell how the Ipad will change our communication on a daily basis .
Saturday, January 30, 2010
601 Aldhizer Donna
In 1979 my parents got for me a used A Brother WP-1400D hardware-type word processor with a screen. I had been taught to type on a manual type writer. I had no idea how to use it. I only attempted to use it once. I put it back in the box where it stayed until 1997. I then sold it at a garage sale.
In 1985 I was told by my sister-in-law Pam, a teacher that my new born son Jason would have to use a computer disc to turn school work in when he was of school age. I thought she was full of propaganda. Pam knew what she was talking about. In 1991 my son Jason in fourth grade was required to have a computer disc. In 1991 computers were donated to his elementary school.
In 1996 I had to begin driving my son to the public library to do school work. I was told he had to look information up online as it was more accurate than my (expensive), set of encyclopedias.
In 1999 my younger daughter Cassandra and Jason were required to turn their school work in on discs. I also bought the family a computer. Jason was the only one at the time that knew anything about one.
I opened my advertising company #1 Business Builder Resources in 2003. I got a computer for my office. My son Jason graduated high school in 2003. Jason went to The Art Institute of Pittsburgh on a full scholarship for his portrait painting and manual art abilities.
Jason graduated in 2005 from the The Art Institute of Pittsburgh with a Computer Graphics degree. Jason opened a website design company and email marketing facility, Jaylee designs. Jason did all the computer work for customers. We did company logos, websites, and mass email promotions for our customers.
I joined my children on MySpace a social networking site in 2005. It is now part of daily life, as well as Face book and Twitter.
My daughter Cassandra in 2006 obtained her first job working as a secretary for a computer repair company, EXACT FIX. Jason eventually also did graphic work for them.
The funny and strange part about all the events that took place between 1979 and up till 2009 is the simple fact that, I never did more than know how to email until last year 2009.Even, after I had my own advertising company and the children learning computers. Jason had done anything related to computers for my business.
I closed my business in 2007 due to illness and Jason went on to work at Kent State at the main Campus in the Graphics department.
In 2009 I went back to school at Kent State to obtain a business degree. I had to learn computers because being a student it is a necessity. I now own a lap top and I received an A- in my computer class. I faced my fear and the computer is an asset to all my daily communications and obtaining information for school or personal reasons.
I watched the computer change the lives of my children as well as mine.
This week the Ipad came out. This is a devise that is about the size of a piece of notebook paper that you can communicate on and do most if not all of what you can do on most other seperate devices. It is amazinghttp://pogue.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/01/27/the-apple-ipad-first-impressions/?apage=21
In 1985 I was told by my sister-in-law Pam, a teacher that my new born son Jason would have to use a computer disc to turn school work in when he was of school age. I thought she was full of propaganda. Pam knew what she was talking about. In 1991 my son Jason in fourth grade was required to have a computer disc. In 1991 computers were donated to his elementary school.
In 1996 I had to begin driving my son to the public library to do school work. I was told he had to look information up online as it was more accurate than my (expensive), set of encyclopedias.
In 1999 my younger daughter Cassandra and Jason were required to turn their school work in on discs. I also bought the family a computer. Jason was the only one at the time that knew anything about one.
I opened my advertising company #1 Business Builder Resources in 2003. I got a computer for my office. My son Jason graduated high school in 2003. Jason went to The Art Institute of Pittsburgh on a full scholarship for his portrait painting and manual art abilities.
Jason graduated in 2005 from the The Art Institute of Pittsburgh with a Computer Graphics degree. Jason opened a website design company and email marketing facility, Jaylee designs. Jason did all the computer work for customers. We did company logos, websites, and mass email promotions for our customers.
I joined my children on MySpace a social networking site in 2005. It is now part of daily life, as well as Face book and Twitter.
My daughter Cassandra in 2006 obtained her first job working as a secretary for a computer repair company, EXACT FIX. Jason eventually also did graphic work for them.
The funny and strange part about all the events that took place between 1979 and up till 2009 is the simple fact that, I never did more than know how to email until last year 2009.Even, after I had my own advertising company and the children learning computers. Jason had done anything related to computers for my business.
I closed my business in 2007 due to illness and Jason went on to work at Kent State at the main Campus in the Graphics department.
In 2009 I went back to school at Kent State to obtain a business degree. I had to learn computers because being a student it is a necessity. I now own a lap top and I received an A- in my computer class. I faced my fear and the computer is an asset to all my daily communications and obtaining information for school or personal reasons.
I watched the computer change the lives of my children as well as mine.
This week the Ipad came out. This is a devise that is about the size of a piece of notebook paper that you can communicate on and do most if not all of what you can do on most other seperate devices. It is amazinghttp://pogue.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/01/27/the-apple-ipad-first-impressions/?apage=21
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