AngryBird

We have a guest speaker the other day. Erik Hanberg is both an author and an entrepreneur. He lives in Tacoma, Washington with his wife Mary and two children. he has published a number of novels. He is unique in that he writes for non-profits with an aim of enhancing Tacoma and the Puget Sound. Erik is found to have extensive knowledge on non-profits, business, governance, marketing among other areas. Erik is described as a creative and resourceful person who has successfully created programs for his non-profits and written books that he markets strategically. Among the books and novels hat Erik has written include: The Lattice Trilogy, The Tin Whistle, The Iron Harvest, The Load Cloak, The Little Book of Likes: Social Media and The Little Books of Board: A Board among other titles. He has also written and directed award winning films in the Grand Cinema’s 72 Hour Film Competition. This is a festival that Erik created back in 2005 and served as the director. His work for th

Technology has changed life in so many ways. For instance before the most initial technological development that produced automotive, people and goods could hardly move from one place to another. Goods produced at one place were hardly consumed elsewhere. With the invention of the automotive technology, goods and people became mobile and trade was made possible. Now technology has impacted every aspect of human livelihood. It has changed our social life, political and economic spheres by allowing greater connectivity in little amounts of time and efforts. Technology can be said to have successfully changed life. For instance the invention of cloud computing, machine learning, forecasting analytics and artificial intelligence are juts but few example of steps that have been made by humans due to technology. Basically, technology has facilitated data capture, analysis, sharing etc. in real time. Human creativity and problem solving has been greatly influenced by technology. Th

I had seen about the AI Sophia sometimes when news about her hit the news. She is depicted as a beautiful woman though fragile and this prompted me to seek further details concerning her. In a conversation I overheard Sophia say that she is honored and proud to take up the unique and distinct position of being the first artificial human on earth. She further says that she looks forward to be granted Saudi Arabia full citizenship. I must admit the creators of Sophia have really tried to mimic God’s creation of human especially because Sophia can speak and act like human. However, I am personally against artificial intelligence that creates humans. This is because I do not think that humans can co-exists with robots especially now in the awakening of security concerns in many regions of the world. Secondly, I have never supported any attempt of human to act like God. While humans have been given the intelligence to dominate and rule the earth, I do not think that making human ro

The author suggests that text is linear when written in paper but flexible, hyper and movable when in digital format. In this phrase I think the author intends to compare the traditional and modern writing methods. He clearly distinguishes between the two by describing the traditional one as linear while the digital format in non-linear. Linear text seems to be one that is printed in paper and cannot be easily retrieved unless one has the print media. On the other hand, the digital text is an example of a non-linear text. These texts provide an array of components including pictures, hyperlinks and sound effects. Basically, digital texts allows readers to access the information by searching for it. The availability of links permits movability of the digital format texts. I think the author is right. We are the machine. We create commands and give the computer a hint of what is expected from the command. The video is an outstanding one. The author has taken time to explain to