Week 3

First of all, i was totally misunderstood about the purpose of the blogger and i did not know that the topic which i chose should relate to the lecture. So, back to my topic, the remote controlled bed, i thought this could be invented very easily, inserting little sensor chip into the bed. However, this week lecture has changed my thoughts that it is very complicated to make those individual components in the computer and actually each components plays an important role.

It is very important to know that the every single components containing in the computer is valuable. For the remote controlled bed, it should needs some little components that i probably do not know about. Therefore, it was helpful understanding the general concepts of technology and i believe this will help me a lot for my future.

"The Sudanese Girl" photographed by Kevin Carter

This picture first appeared in The New York Times on Marck 26, 1993. Carter who photographed this picture, awared the Pulitzer Prize for Feature Photography on March 23, 1994. However, the honor and money that he achieved from the photo could not make him happy. On July 27, 1994, he suicede by inhaling carbon monoxide poisoning at the age of 33.


This happened when Carter made a trip to southern Sudan. He met this young emaciated Sudanese girl, resting from struggling to a feeding center and a vulture had landed nearby, waiting for her death. After 20 mins, Carter snapped the photo and chased a vurture away. However, he could not saved a girl.


Although this photo brought him a lot of glory and honor, he could not avoid the heavy criticism, not helping a girl. This is a tragic story about young man who photographed for money led him into suicide because of a guilty conscience.

The Entrepreneurship Initiative

The first time when i got this question, i send plenty of time to think about what type of products in our normal life can be add to something that will make better. During the lecture, however, i saw the video, showing that the robot was automatically moved by the censor chip. I thought this idea can be put into our life that would make it better.
My idea is that the bed which can be moved by remote controller. This can be simple, but i think this might help in many publice places. Hospital, for instance, there are many patients living in the room and some of them are unable to move their bodies due to physical disablilties. It is very sorrowful that they have to see the view of the world through the window. Therefore this movable bed typically will help not only the people with physical disablities but also the people like us.
I feel wonder why the people who invented a wheelchair, did not innovate the moveable bed. Although many people would not use this product, this still needs to some people and make their lives much better. By taking this course, I believe that learning about IST will help me to make this kind of products and help many people with disabilitis.

The blog questionnaire

1. A one to three paragraph reflection on what your experience of blogging was like

When i start to use blog it was very confuseing. It was confuseing because, I was little lost when i join the website, didn't know what to do, and it was totally new experience. I never use anything like this before or i never heard of it before.
However, when i start to get to know how the system was working i start to enjoy the website. I thought this was going to be very fun to write every one week. For example, before i start to write my first experience about the blog, my friends and i was talking about eventing items and others because that what i will do in the future.
I can not wait until i start to post up my ideas that i share with my friends and will be sharing with my classmates. This was really enjoyable experience that the blogging made me to think widely and to share thoughts and ideas with other people.