Response Questions: Blown To Bits

1) Three other things that can be made using bits are:

• Word Documents
• Websites
• Algorithms

2) There are many reasons that this transfer of ideas could be good or bad. By exchanging ideas in insanely fast ways, this gives us a great advantage when doing research and development of new technology. It can be used in a bad way however; people can steal other peoples ideas using the worlds superhighway, and call them their own.

3) The government should have access to all of the information, so long as they are not allowed to release specific details of what they may find, unless it is evidence for a court case. The government does not care who, or what you are. They just want answers, and I think it is just to let them have access to the information. Anyway, if you don't like it, don't use a computer.

4) In such a technologically advanced word, I think that the presence of this technology is not quite good, or bad for society. In many ways I think it benefit life, and also hinder it. As for benefits, it makes doing research extremely easy, and is the fastest way to communicate information. It can also hinder us. It harms us because some people can find said information and use it in malicious ways. Overall, I think it's a neutral balance.

The world's technology is rapidly expanding. It all began with just one bit, and they now are great tools that can be used in many ways... Good or bad.

Questions:

1.  Describe why do you think humans have the intense need to continue improving technology, even though we can easily sustain ourselves with what we already have?
2. Compare the speed of data in computers, to the speed of our mail service.
3. Elaborate on some of the great consequences of these technological advances. Why is it bad? What makes it good?
4. Group in a small Venn Diagram the consequences of technology, the good the bad, and the neutral.

Scratch Game Project. *Finished*

        Our Scratch Project:

                Reflection:

•         In this project we used the scrum method for our creative process. Overall I somewhat liked this method. It made for a good group dynamic. However, I felt like learning a whole new process so quickly, it was detrimental to the group.
• Our team had a very good team dynamic. We worked well together thanks to the scrum method. We both took equal part in the creation of our game, and with minimal disagreements, it went very quickly.
• One thing that went well was the documentation of the project. Phillip did very well creating the product backlog, and cataloging events. As we continued we also cataloged all of the past versions of our game
• One thing we struggled with was the restrictions of scratch. Scratch, being a very elementary program, it made it very difficult to create such a complex program.If we had more time we could have implemented various other mechanisms to the game, For example, we could have added random power-ups that appear, and when activated they give u a movement boost

                Documentation:
                Scratch Game