Goggles of the Future "HUD" Heads up Display

I love to snowboard; I can never get enough of it. So when i hear about new technologies being incorporated into the ski industry I get pretty excited. Several goggle companies this year are putting out a new goggle that allows you to track top speed, distance traveled, air times on jumps, vertical and horizontal distances and so much more. All of this is displayed in the bottom corner of your goggles. Know you can record your entire statistic for that day of ridding. This could help winter alleles can they can see specifically how fast they hit a jump and how much distance the covered before they land. Making the rider and there equipment more in tuned. I know right when I’m about to hit a jump the speed I’m approaching with is important and these goggles could help evaluate rider stress making the rider preform move smoothly adding style to the riders tricks. “HUD” has been used since World War II and is being incorporated into environments more and more. Most new cars have used this technology to improve the driver’s awareness.  Army has also been using this new technology incorporating it into the battle field allowing soldier’s to see real time data of the battle field. The HUD could give locations display maps and distance to targets. HUD’s in my opinion can improve our daily lives so we have an ethical responsibility to incorporate them into our daily lives. Now cell phone companies are looking at using HUDs for their phones using a monocle type lens that you would place in your eye and the screen in the monocle would display all your smart phone information. There might be some negative implications from this technology but looking at it from a utilitarianism point of view this technology will benefit more people that it could harm.  There are three major brand that have put out HUD goggles this year and the y include: Okaly, Smith and Zeal.

 http://www.notcot.com/archives/2012/10/oakley-airwave-goggle-with-hea.php

Internet Restrictions in China

 

The United State constitution protects Americans right to free speech or is supposed to. Although we have laws that allow every citizen to practice free speech the government still restricts certain media (FCC). China on the other hand has taken this to a whole new level. China as laws that allows the government’s to monitor and restrict internet use to its ISP (internet Service Providers) and citizens. As human beings most people believe that when we are born we have certain rights in this world, right to life is one and so can argue freedom of speech could be one. I think China is making many ethical mistakes by restricting internet use. From a utilitarianism perspective restricting the internet will have negative effects on the majority of society. Not allowing equal opportunity to education and ability to use it to gain employment, internment, and communication. Other countries have different cultures and societies and for us Americans to say what china is doing is wrong, but form a chainman’s perspective are they? Supposedly one benefit to china restricting site on the internet will help promote Chines to buy Chines product boosting their economy. Some people may just see the one side and say that’s bad, but there are some obvious benefits that could come from a country restricting the internet content. In my opinion the cons out weigh the pros by far. Restricting internet content I think is in violation of our human right to free speech. Even with restrictions there can be ways around them as explained in the article in the link below. China is famous for centuries now at keeping outsiders out. Look at history you have one of mankind’s greatest accomplishments with the building of the Great Wall of China. This wall was to help protect but mainly keep the Chines in and the Mongols out. Now we have internet restrictions which kind of do the same thing ironically. Do you think governments should have the right to control internet content?  

 

P.S. Thanks for reading my blog this semester. The main point was to engage with readers about current events that deal with computer ethics. I hope you enjoyed some of the discussion on here. Until next have a good one.

 

 

http://www.articlesbase.com/internet-articles/internet-restrictions-in-china-880043.html

Scientific visualization

 

Simulation and modeling is a huge area in computers science that has helped many other fields’ progress. Scientific visualization is a revolutionary technique used to display data and offer alternative user interface design than most are use-to. I found and article on line that explains this well. I also watched a TED talk on a researches scientific visualization project. His talk consisted on two main projects one where he show you how data can be processed a presented to a user that hasn’t been done before. The other project was a collaborative work from people all around the world that created still frames for a tribute video for the late Johnny Cash. This new visualization technique mentioned first, visually allows the user to see patterns and other phenomenon that you wouldn’t see in a table or spread sheet of data. Some ethical issues arise from these new techniques. Data mining plays an important role in this technique because you need large sums of data and where do you get the data to run these simulations. We have talked about data mining as a class and it implications. I would have to say that this form of data mining is more ethically just than most because the reason for the mining are educational and not for marketing purposes. The field of data mining offers much abstract visualization related to these visualization types. In the TED talked I watched one of the visual data displays he presented was a program that is trying to visually represent the world, and the user interface makes it active and touch oriented. I think anyone can upload pictures of places around the world and the program combines all the pictures in a way it’s like walking around the world visually but digitally, it’s really quit fascinating and when it comes to projects like these that might have some ethical issues with them but ultimately benefit the majority of society (utilitarianism). Check out the article below to find out more and tell if you find any other ethical issues or if you those programs should use data mining even if it is for good?

 

 

http://www.sciencedaily.com/articles/s/scientific_visualization.htm