Professor Lamphears RHT 160 Class

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Progressivism in America?

• Presented By
• Professor LamphearsRHT 160 Class

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Out of Focus on Technology

• President Bush proposes 12 billion over the next
  5 years to return humans to the moon and then to
  Mars by 2020.
• The costs of the Mars mission could reach 1
  trillion.
• Bush has given 158 billion to aid the fight
  against terrorism since 9/11 and is asking
  Congress for 50 billion more.
• The real question is Where is all this money
  coming from?

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Morality of Cloning

• Pros
• Options for families that cant have families
• Cloning loved ones
• Test dummies for machinery
• Producing mass armies that are programmed
• Stem cell harvesting from embryos/fetuses
• Stem cells have the ability to differentiate into
  other cells
• Offers cures to Cancer, Diabetes, Parkinson's,
  Alzheimers, Multiple Sclerosis, and certain
  forms of Heart Disease

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Morality of Cloning

• Cons
• Leaders of countries might try to prolong their
  ruling
• People will be produced too much overpopulation
• Not real people, just physical replicas
• Lack of creativity in the replicated person
• Stem cell therapy of humans has serious side
  effects

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Eliminating Jobs

• The displacement of workers has been masked by
  many companies for a long time.
• An estimated 43 million jobs have been
  eliminated in the United States since 1979
  (Murphey).
• For example, the introduction of hog megafarms
  reduced the number of hog farms in Kansas from
  22,000 in 1965 to 3,600 in 1997 (Murphey).

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Eliminating Jobs

• By 2010 we will see mobile robots carrying out
  simple chores such as vacuuming, dusting,
  delivering packages, and taking out the garbage.
• By 2040 robots will be freely moving machines
  with the intellectual capabilities of a human
  being.
• The entire endeavor of robotics has failed rather
  completely to live up to the predictions of the
  1950s.

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Eliminating Jobs

• U-Scans are taking the jobs of employees and
  improving productivity.
• In 2003, 40 of Delta Airline passengers (22
  million) checked in by touch screen.
• 13,000 self-check-out systems will be installed
  in American stores such as Kroger and Home Depot
  by the end of this year.
• Businesses deny replacing machines as substitutes
  for human labor.

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Eliminating Jobs

• The automobile industry is making tools without
  human intervention to provide satisfactory
  product quality.
• Automation could make lives easier, but it will
  displace workers.
• Automation leads to lives of unemployment and job
  insecurity.

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Conforming to Technology Health

• CAT scans and MRIs are a product of nuclear
  physics. Nuclear medicine is used to detect
  abnormalities of blood flow, structure, or
  function.
• A thyroid scan uses small amounts of radioactive
  iodine or technetium and a device to produce a
  picture of the thyroid gland that will show any
  physical abnormalities.
• These medical devices have made it possible to
  decrease the rate of deaths per illness due to
  new cures and medicine.
• In the early part of the 20th Century, declines
  were attributed to improvements in medical
  technology.

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Conforming to Cars Statistics

• According to the Insurance Institute for Highway
  Safety (IIHS), there have been 780,000 airbag
  deployments reported in Canada and the U.S.
• Although at least 50 deaths have been attributed
  to airbags, an estimated 1,600 lives have been
  saved.
• In recent IIHS research, airbags have been shown
  to reduce fatalities by 20 in frontal car
  impacts.
• The National Highway Traffic Administration
  estimates that 7,224 people are alive today
  because of their airbags.

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Conforming to Technology Communication

• A new communication service has been created to
  help monitor the carrier vehicles.
• The Electronic Emergence Response Management
  system provides and coordinates communication
  between police, first responders (fire,
  ambulance), and the vehicle in the accident.
• It can locate emergency vehicles, figure out what
  the vehicle is capable of, and what vehicles can
  respond to the accident the quickest.
• The system uses a wireless internet connection
  that can relay messages instantly and can give
  exact location of a vehicle in an accident. This
  new communication was demonstrated by the U.S.
  Department of Transportation in the fall of 2001.

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Conforming to Technology Communication

• The Interactive Nano-Visualization in Science and
  Engineering Educations (IN-VSEE) project combines
  advances in telecommunications, instructional
  technologies, and science engineering research.
• It provides the first real-time interface for
  remote operation of Scanning Probe Microscopy
  (SPM) over the World Wide Web for educational and
  training purposes.

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Environmental Impact

• Why do we waste precious natural resources?The
  answer comfort and convenience
• Soon we will deplete our fresh water supply
  because we are excessive when it comes to
  household needs, electricity generation,
  agriculture, leisure (i. e. swimming pools), and
  industry.
• Consequently, this excessiveness leads to high
  pollution levels.

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Environmental Impact

• To reuse water, purification is necessary because
  natural cleansing systems, such as wetlands, are
  being destroyed for development (Sawin).
• Research has shown that consumption of the
  numerous cleansing chemicals and of the bacteria
  that resists disinfection over a long period of
  time can cause cancer of the bladder, kidney,
  colon, and brain also neurological and birth
  defects (Jaakkola Sawin).
• Although we try to sanitize what is left of our
  declining water supply, we are actually producing
  a hazardous substance for humankind all for the
  price of progress.

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Environmental Impact

• The United States is too reliant on the Middle
  East for its energy sources.
• In the United States, about 20 of CO2 comes from
  cars.
• Public transportation is the best way to conserve
  energy and reduce pollution, yet is rarely used.
• Hybrid vehicles are on the market, such as the
  upcoming 2005 HEV Escape, yet people refuse to
  compromise.

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Environmental Impact

• Fuel cell cars are nearly 100 emission free and
  need to be funded more.
• PZEVs (Partial Zero Emission Vehicles) are about
  90 cleaner than average cars and are sold in
  states like California that enforce clean air
  laws.
• The automotive companies fight the clean air
  laws, since alternative emission vehicles are
  less profitable.
• Global warming and respiratory problems are just
  a couple of problems automobiles cause.

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Environmental Impact

• Global warming can cause the sea level to rise 1
  to 4 feet, swamping coastal cities.
• Heat trapping close to Earth raises global
  temperature. This phenomenon is also known as
  the Greenhouse Effect.
• Transportation such as cars and trucks produces
  CO2 in the air, which is the main cause of the
  rise in global temperature.

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Environmental Impact

• If global temperatures rise to high, crops and
  forests would be destroyed.
• Coal in trains, oils in cars, and natural gases
  produced by everyday household materials raises
  the temperature of the Earth.
• Chlorofluorocarbons, essential as a coolant for
  fridges and air conditioners, are also very
  damaging to the ozone layer.
• The only way to prevent global warming is to
  reduce the technology that is hurting it.

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Technology in Schools

• Computers as tutors have positive effects on
  learning as measured by standardized achievement
  tests, are more motivating for students, are
  accepted by more teachers than other technologies
  (Athens)
• Technology is one important tool among many
  teachers teach concepts and then use technology
  to reinforce, enhance and elaborate.
• If the students are not shown this technology,
  students will have no chance to compete in the
  job market they will enter a market where huge
  numbers of jobs require technological use.

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Health Care

• Access to a medical file is not easy. Systems
  must control and manage which parts of a record
  are available to different users in the form of
  the HIPAA (Health Insurance Protection and
  Accountability Act) privacy policy.
• Primary Care Physician
• Nursing
• Billing Department
• Here are examples of new technology affecting
  health care
• A nurse can scan a barcode on an intravenous
  drug, that charge can automatically and
  accurately go on the patients account for more
  reliable billing and claims creation.
• New wireless tools also allow better use of
  point-of-care devices, such as handheld or
  notebook computers that record vital signs and
  check patient information.

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Problem?

• Despite these recent advances, this impact on
  healthcare may be held back by a strong
  reluctance to relieve human experts of decisions
  for which the legal system holds them ultimately
  responsible. (Essex)

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Cosmetic Surgery

• A positive effect for the technological
  advancement of cosmetic surgery is that it is
  used to enhance physical beauty.
• Last year 7.4 million people went through
  cosmetic surgery to look their best (Stephen)
• However, with so many people trying to look good
  on the outside, some might begin to wonder how
  important, or not important, the qualities that
  people possess on the inside are worth.

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Drawbacks of Cosmetic Surgery

• The healing process can take up to ten days. The
  first forty-eight hours of which the patient may
  have a burned, painful face.
• This patients face can remain red up to three
  months after the surgery (USA Today)
• Pain free surgery is never promised, nor is it
  possible.

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Television and Children

• In a national education study, students reported
  spending FOUR times as many hours watching TV as
  doing homework (Office of Educational Research
  and Improvement).
• Children who are heavy TV viewers (over three
  hours a day), show the greatest decline in
  reading ability (Reinking).

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Electronic Distractions

• Kids play so many video games, they watch so much
  TV and they are on the computer so much that it
  takes away from homework time.
• 78.9 of households with children in the U.S. own
  a computer. 71.6 of those households have
  Internet access (National Telecommunications).
• 31 of children surveyed (ages 10-17) report
  having seen a pornographic site on the Internet
  (National Public Radio).

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Teen Report

• A survey on teen use of the Internet showed
• 54 browse
• 51 study or do research for school
• 51 use e-mail
• 32 play games (USA Today)

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Technology and the Use of Advertising

• Kids are going to be around longer so advertising
  agencies see them as super targets and use
  technology to appeal to them.
• It also doesnt help that technology makes us
  subject to ads on a second-to-second basis from
  the screens of ATMs to gas pumps.
• Advertising is impossible to escape!

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Technology and the Use of Advertising

• Internet ads urge teens to visit the sites being
  advertised by giving out points that they could
  spend online.
• Ad companies are manipulating teens, knowing that
  reading a message deepens its impact more than
  just seeing it.
• Of all possible advertising mediums, the Internet
  is the worst.

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Technology Promotes Laziness

• Instead of writing letters with paper and pen or
  typewriter, people use the quick and easy way of
  instant messaging and e-mail.
• This causes a lack of personal communication in
  society and less physical contact with people.

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Technology Promotes Laziness

• Most computers are equipped with spell check and
  grammar check.
• People no longer use dictionaries, nor are they
  required to write a proper sentence.
• The computer is designed to fix grammar itself,
  which ultimately means people are learning less.

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Technology Promotes Laziness

• Society has allowed technology to replace the use
  of ones mind and suppress ones ability to
  think, in addition to making people lazier.
• All of this technology is making us lazy, and not
  to mention, stupid.

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Technology Promotes Laziness

• Example While the Space Shuttle Columbia
  disaster in January 2003 has been attributed to
  faulty insulation, NASAs Columbia Accident
  Investigation Board also cited a lack in
  communicationas in PowerPointthat could have
  prevented the accident.
• The problem arose when complex information was
  presented to NASA engineers by way of PowerPoint,
  through numerous, confusing, bulleted points.
  Since the average slide contains 40 words, this
  is not enough to present all essential
  information.

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Morality on the Decline

• While the Civil Rights Movement and women in the
  workplace are uniformly endorsed, many other
  social trends, including the growth of suburbs
  and rock music, get a mixed review, and still
  others are lamented, including the greater
  acceptance of divorce and legalized abortion.

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Morality on the Decline

• For instance, new technologies the space
  program, computers, and medical breakthroughs
  are seen as Americas greatest achievements of
  the past 100 years, while simultaneously, moral
  decline is prominent on the list of failures, all
  thanks to our technological advancements.

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Conclusion

• When Americans today think about the nations
  accomplishments during the 20th Century, about
  how life has improved, and even about the
  governments successes, technology is the answer.
• Nothing else is closenot winning the conflicts
  that defined America in this century (the World
  Wars or the Cold War), not the Civil Rights
  Movement that recast society, not the Social
  Security program that lifted so many seniors out
  of poverty, but TECHNOLOGY!