NATASHA LINDSEY CELL PHONES, ECOMMERCE ZHETAO GUO SOCIAL MEDIA, EREADER MIKE MOORE NANOTECHNOLOGY,...

NATASHA LINDSEYCELL PHONES, ECOMMERCE

ZHETAO GUOSOCIAL MEDIA , EREADER

MIKE MOORENANOTECHNOLOGY, CLONING

Impact of Technology on Society

Cell Phones

Cell phones create a society that is…

• Informative• Connected• Culturally innovative• Participative• Converging

How is cell phone used?

Source: Mobile Access 2010 http://www.pewinternet.com/Reports/2010/Mobile-Access-2010.aspx

Activity 2010 2009 Increase

Take Pictures

76% 66% 10%

Text Message

72% 65% 07%

Internet 38% 25% 13%

Games 34% 27% 07%

E-Mail 34% 25% 09%

Record Video

34% 19% 15%

Play Music

33% 21% 09%

Luxury

Or

Necessity

Classifying your Cell Phone…

85% of all Americans carry a cell phone

(4 out of 5)

Source: http://www.pewinternet.org/Reports/2010/Cell-Phones-and-American-Adults/Part-1-Adults-and-cell-phones-Ownership-and-use/Cell-ownership-in-the-United-States-remains-steady-since-2009.aspx

Safety & Security Issues

70% of all 911 calls now come from mobile phones.

Source: http://www.arlnow.com/2010/11/23/officials-to-demonstrate-911-texting-technology/

74% of Americans who own a mobile phone have used it in an emergency for assistance.Source: Pew Internet & American Life Project, April 2006

Connectivity

4,239,956 people are having a phone conversation during this second.

Citizens of the US make less than 1% (34,722) of these calls.

200,000 text messages are sent worldwide each second.

2.5 billion text per day by US citizens.

Source: Mobile Access 2010 by Aaron Smith http://www.pewinternet.com/Reports/2010/Mobile-Access-2010.aspx

Environmental Issues

Only about 10 percent of the cell phones used in the United States are recycled.

• Recycling just one cell phone saves enough energy to power a laptop for 44 hours.

• 130 million cell phones are tossed aside annually in the United States this is enough energy to power more than 24,000 homes for a year.

• Recycling one million cell phones also saves enough energy to provide electricity to 185 U.S. households for a year.

• Cell phones, PDAs and other electronic devices also contain hazardous materials such as lead, mercury, cadmium, arsenic and brominated flame retardants. Many of those materials can be recycled and reused; none of them should go into landfills where they can contaminate air, soil and groundwater.

Source: http://environment.about.com/od/mobilephones/a/why_recycle_cell_phones.htm

E-Commerce

E-Commerce

Online retail sales account for 11 percent of total sales in the United States and 7 percent of worldwide spending. US sales are expected to top $156 billion this year, excluding revenues associated with traveling.

More consumer dollars are spent online because of comparison shopping and convenience.

Source: http://www.hotelmarketing.com/index.php/article/forrester_online_sales_to_continue_growth_in_2009/

E-Commerce

The Nielsen Company Reports…

• 85% of the world’s online population has used the Internet to make a purchase (40% increase)

• More than half of Internet users are regular online shoppers, making online purchases at least once a month.

• 94% of US Citizens have purchased online at least once, with an additional

• • 54 percent purchasing items online within the last monthSource: http://th.nielsen.com/site/documents/GlobalOnlineShoppingReportFeb08.pdf

E-Commerce

• Convenience

• Removes Barriers

• Lowers Costs

• Informed Consumers

• Higher Degree of Specialization

• Mobility of Employment Source: http://www.ecommerceeducation.com/benefits-of-ecommerce.asp

E-Commerce

Brick & Mortar LossesPrivacy ConcernsFraudIdentity TheftLegal Aspects

Crime

The Internet Crime Center Statistics(From 2009 for 79 offense-based categories)

• 336,655 complaint submissions (922.3 complaints per day)

• 44% were referred to local, state, and federal law enforcement agencies

• The total dollar loss from all referred cases was $559.7 million with a median dollar loss of $575

Source: http://www.ic3.gov/media/annualreport/2009_ic3report.pdf

Shopaholics

• A Psychiatric Times survey conducted in December, 2006 revealed that almost 6% of Americans have shopping addictions (Oniomania).

• Both genders are affected equally (5.5% men and 6% women respectively).

• College-aged consumers spend 12% of their total income online, and those purchases are concentrated in categories (clothes, music, and books).

Source: http://jcmc.indiana.edu/vol6/issue3/larose.html

Social Media

Social Media

Social media are media for social interaction, using highly accessible and scalable publishing techniques. Social media uses web-based technologies to turn communication into interactive dialogues.

Resource: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_media

Social Media Revolution

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lFZ0z5Fm-Ng&feature=related

Change your lifestyle…

…even your job.

You get lots of followers

Much of the night networking on a computer might be bad for your body and your brain.

Are you suffering from social networking?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37OLJPjoews&feature=related

The greater use of the internet

declines in communication between family

members in the house

declines in the size of their social circle

increase in their levels

of depression

and loneliness

Social Networking

The time we spend socializing electronically separates us from our physical networks. There's a wide world out there with no Twitter, Facebook, MySpace and email even.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hcc85yBqOZ0

Social Networking

E-reader

Saving Space

You can have hundreds of books in a device smaller than a moleskin journal.

Saving green (money)

Costs of e-books are much cheaper than buying the hardcovers or paperbacks off the bookstore shelves.

Less gas

Downloading an e-book takes just seconds and requires no transportation.

It requires no use of gas.

Carbon Emission

E-readers take a certain amount of carbon emission to produce.

Truth: “E-books are having effectively no positive impact on the environment”. If publishers continue to produce large numbers of books, e-readers will prove useless to the environment.

Will e-books replace ink and paper?

Nanotechnology

What is Nanotechnology?

Nanotechnology is the science of building structures at a subatomic level. The prefix nano refers to the scale of these constructions. A nanometer is

one-billionth of a meter. To put that scale in context, the comparative size of a nanometer to a meter is the same as that of a marble to the size of the earth!

How small is a nanometer?

Flea

Red Blood Cells

Virus

DNA

Molecule

Nano Structure

Hair

Bacteria

History of Nanotechnology

In 1959, Richard Feynman became the first individual to give a lecture about the concepts involved in nanotechnology. He gave the talk at the American Physical Society at Caltech. The first experimental proof that individual atoms could be manipulated was obtained by IBM scientists back in 1989, when they used a scanning tunneling microscope to precisely position 35 xenon atoms on a nickel surface to spell out the corporate logo "IBM."

Some Benefits of Nanotechnology

Nanomedicine

Cheap and clean energy

Clean Water

Pollution Reduction and Environmental Progress

Improved Materials and New Products

Nanomedicine

Nanomedicine is focused on diagnosing and treating diseases and creating new drug delivery techniques with fewer side effects. Some examples of nanomedicine are...

• Detection - Nanotech-enabled sensors may be able to “smell” cancer. • Imaging - Gold nanoparticles can be used to detect disease.• Regeneration - Nanogels can spur the regrowth of brain and nerve cells.

Cheap and Clean Energy

The difficulty of meeting the world’s energy demand is compounded by the growing need to protect our environment. Many scientists are looking into way to develop clean, affordable and renewable energy sources.

Solar panels Batteries Fuel cells for alternative transportation

Clean Water

Clean water is a precious natural resource and a basic necessity. While the worldwide supply of potable water is limited, the demand continues to increase. Nanotechnology could help meet the need for affordable clean water through inexpensive water purification, as well as rapid, low cost detection of impurities.

Pollution Reduction and Environmental Progress

There are many eco-friendly possibilities for nanotechnology, including

Lighter cars and machinery that requires less fuel Alternative fuel and energy sources Materials that detect and clean up environmental contaminants

Improved Materials and New Products

The very structure of materials can be improved through nanotechnology, by developing nanomaterials that are stronger, lighter, more durable or better conductors, among other traits.

Adding nanoparticles to plastics can make them stronger, lighter and more durable. Nanoparticles are currently used in baseball bats and tennis rackets, but someday may also be used in bulletproof vests and light, fuel efficient vehicles.

Different nanoscale materials can be used in thin films to make them water-repellent, anti-reflective, self-cleaning, ultraviolet or infrared-resistant, antifog, anti-microbial, scratch-resistant, or electrically conductive.

Nanofilms are used now on eyeglasses, computer displays, and cameras to protect or treat the surfaces. Nanoscale transistors may someday lead to computers that are faster, more powerful and more energy efficient than those used today.

Some Risks of Nanotechnology

NanotoxicologyNano Pollution

Nanotoxicology

The extremely small size of nanomaterials also means that they are much more readily taken up by the human body than larger sized particles. How these nanoparticles behave inside the body is one of the issues that needs to be resolved. The behavior of nanoparticles is a function of their size, shape and surface reactivity with the surrounding tissue.

Nanopollution

Nanopollution is a generic name for all waste generated by nanodevices or during the nanomaterials manufacturing process. This kind of waste may be very dangerous because of its size. It can float in the air and might easily penetrate animal and plant cells causing unknown effects.

Most human made nanoparticles do not appear in

nature, so living organisms may not have appropriate means to deal with nonwaste. It is probably one great challenge to nanotechnology: how to deal with its nanopollutants and nanowaste.

Cloning

Cloning

In biological terms, cloning is the process of creating an organism (plant or animal) that is an exact genetic copy of another through nonsexual means.

Cloning

Before your thoughts about cloning begin to turn negative, think about this… nature has been cloning organisms for billions of years!

For example, when a strawberry plant sends out a runner (a form of modified stem called a stolon), a new plant grows where the runner takes root. That new plant is a clone! Similar cloning occurs in grass, potatoes and onions.

Cloning

Perhaps the most well known example of cloning is Dolly, a sheep from Scotland that became the first cloned mammal in 1996. Dolly was the only sheep out of 277 attempts that made it to a live birth. She gave birth to four lambs before she passed away in 2003.

Cloning

Although a handful of people across the world have announced that they have cloned a baby, no one has ever produced any conclusive proof that a cloned baby exists.

Oh My! I’ve been cloned!

Some Benefits of Cloning

More predictable and reliable crop yields, meaning more food for more people.

Disease and pesticide resistant plants.

Significantly lower growing costs.

Production of "super" fruits and vegetables of superior nutritional quality could result in decreases in nutritional deficiencies around the world and make for a healthier population overall.

Some Benefits of Cloning

Genetically modified cells and organs from animals can be transplanted into humans to treat disease and injury.

Many human diseases such as Parkinson's, Alzheimer's, MS, diabetes and cancer could be treated using genetically altered cells from other humans (embryonic, fetal and adult stem cells).

People who can't have children in the traditional way can have children of their own.

Potential Uses of Stem Cells

Some Risks of Cloning

By "playing God" we may disrupt the natural evolutionary process (survival of the fittest) in the plant world.

Cloning is a highly inefficient, experimental, and unpredictable technology that presents serious threats to both animal and human health and welfare.

Questions?

“Due to the controversy over cloning our first human, we have decided to choose a subject that would have little to no impact on society around him.”