Little Brother（4）

"I lost myself in the library, reading these beautiful old editions of the books. I got lost in Jack Keroac's On the Road a novel I'd been meaning to read for a long time" (Page 233)
"Another thing I loved was how the story is grounded in history: Marcus’ social studies teacher tells the class about the Civil Rights Movement in the 60’s and 70’s, especially what took place in the Bay Area. And Marcus makes connections between what was fought for then and what he’s fighting for now. He reads On the Road and Allen Ginsberg’s Howl, and the link he feels to his city gives him extra strength to continue to fight for it to become a free place again. How I wish my social studies andhistory teachers in high school had encouraged those kinds of connection. We can't be reminded too often that history is not irrelevant for our lives."
after learning that his best friend, Darryl, is not dead, but still being held in a secret prison on nearby Treasure Island Marcus starts a series of events that culminates in his final confrontation with the DHS. Starting with his confession, to his parents and Darryl's father, of what really happened the three days he was imprisoned, he gives all of his information to an investigative reporter friend. This leads to his being imprisoned and tortured (specifically with waterboarding) by the DHS, personified by the Severe Haircut Lady. He is rescued by the California Highway State Patrol (CHSP) after the governor of California acts on the information provided in the news article. He finds his friend Darryl alive, if severely traumatized by his treatment, as well as his girlfriend Ange in the Treasure Island secret prison.

Little Brother（3）

“I fireballed him as he was seeking out treasure after we wiped out a band of orcs, playing rock-paper-scissors with each orc to determine who would prevail in combat. This is a lot more exciting than it sounds.

It's quite civilized, and a little weird. You go running after someone through the woods, catch up with him, bare your teeth, and sit down to play a little roshambo.” 

Our very first introduction to Marcus tells us in intimate detail about the surveillance he has to deal with, from a bugged and limited SchoolBook computer through to metal detectors and in-class recording. Every key he taps is being analysed by someone, somewhere. Marcus also tells us, in detail, how to evade this surveillance. When his campaign gets going, Marcus leads us through the history of cryptography, of statistical analysis and spam filters (a page on Bayesian analysis), helps us (if we want) to build our own computers and know what to look for if we want to learn basic programming. Just to demonstrate that geekdom does not mean disassociation, we also get several seminars on classroom discussion of the Constitution, the Bill of Rights, and the psychology of paranoia. Further along we learn how social networking can be adapted as a political tool, and how to create revolutionary cells with peer-to-peer security. There are also some fierce warnings about what kind of information not to give on the Internet and why.

Little Brother（2）

I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked,
dragging themselves through the negro streets at dawn looking for an angry fix,
angelheaded hipsters burning for the ancient heavenly connection to the starry dynamo in the machinery of night...


As some people know, as part of an ongoing research project I've spent the past five years reading every science fiction book written for the Young Adult market I can get my hands on. It's not been an entirely happy experience. In most of the books I've read there is an absence of any political complexity, and in particular, an inattention to the way the world works. Perhaps worse, there has been an utter failure to address what I have always thought of as one of the key factors that make an SF book an SF book, that at the end of it, the reader has learned something. This something can be about genetics, strategy in a military mission, the nature of beetle sexuality—I really and truly don't care—but I have always regarded SF as a didactic literature and regarded that didacticism as a good thing, yet most YA SF novels lack it (even when they simultaneously promote a political viewpoint such as science is bad, it will destroy the planet, focus on your mystical abilities). Little Brother, however, is fiercely, unashamedly didactic. Doctorow revels in what he has set out to do, which is simply to place in the hands of every school child a manual which could be subtitled "how to bring down your government and enjoy doing it." The first time I read it I was on a flight to the US, and while I became increasingly concerned that this might have been a Very Bad Idea, I also sort of hoped customs might find the book because it is inflammatory.

Little Brother（1）

"I hate to say it, but you're white. I'm not. White people get caught with cocaine and do a little rehab time. Brown people get caught with crack and go to prison for twenty years. White people see cops on the street and feel safer. Brown people see cops on the street and wonder if they're about to get searched. The way the DHS is treating you? The law in this country has always been like that for us."

I adored Little Brother. It’s such a smart, engrossing and inspiring book. It’s a story about a group of teenagers who think and care and question things, and then go off and do something about it. It’s about not being powerless—not letting others make you feel powerless, because that’s how they win. It’s about social change, but it’s not an idealist’s dream. Change does happen, but Marcus and his friends and allies run a lot of risks, and there are costs. There are also people in positions of power getting away with horrible things, and we’ve all seen that happen often enough.

Fahrenheit 451

I pick Fahrenheit 451 as a good example of the government and religion at future, because this book is about how people's life in the future, the society in completely different from today. What Montag done for his job is wrong thing as we see. The as a different period of time, people changed their mind like an opposite way as what we thinking. As a fireman Montag burn book for his job, he not put out the fire, his job was to burn books. Which is not making any sense in today. Because the government tried to manipulate people's mind, action by ruled them up with law. The government not allow people have their own thought, and have a book or read a book become illegal, (book is part of our society destroying book is same as destroying our society, book is contain most of the knowledge)   they just stay at home watching that TV wall day by day. In the book there is some exception, there is people that away wanna make a change of the society, they question the society. I think Ray Bradbury's purpose of writing this book is to remain people, media is not only think you have for  recreation media have took over book's place in this generation. People rely on media too much and forget how much the book can give.

The future of fight

The movie REAL STEEL is showing how boxing changed at future, boxing is not man to man anymore. It become robot to robot. 

Than boxing just become a man holding a remote and control the robot, like regular boxing, a robot can win on points, via a technical knock-out, or a true KO. The only way they appear capable of the latter is to cause their opponent to suffer a kind of major computer or power source malfunction. They can beat each other senseless, and yet survive, just to have their potential victory vanquished via a software bug or hard drive crash. And then there is the various baffling bells and whistles they can employ. In the end, cricket makes more sense. again it showing the improvement of human technology, we just have to boxing with the remote, let the robot fighting for them, it kind of lost the point of boxing, its like letting the robot doing sport for people is kind of pointless . New thing is not always make them to be better.

It’s good to know that, several decades from now, there will still be deadbeat dads. It’s also refreshing to see well to do adoptive parents bartering for a boy child like rug merchants in Marrakesh. Charlie needs money, and Max’s aunt apparently needs a kid to hug - that is, until he turns unctuous and rebellious. The price for the privilege? $100,000 - an in future money, that must be like 75 smackers. And no one seems phased by this concept. No one.

overpopulation

The video " 7 billion people everybody relax" exactly showing what happening in our planet, as our life runs  more better than usual, our population keep raising without limit. We know that there will be no more land to fill, if our population keep raising without a limit. For now there is a children die for hunger in every 5 seconds, even we tried so hard to help them! But as the population growing, there will be less land for agriculture, which it mean as our population keep raising there will be less food for everyone, so there will be more people hunger!

I consider what gonna happen will our population out of control in some day, are we going to control our population as how "to be or not to be"  do? Limited the born? At the end of the video it said " at the end of the century the population will be decrease."  people dying because there is more people come to this word? It not making any sense. people  expense their life for the new... 

And I don't think "fill" in those verses, means so much a specific "fullness" level, but more a continuing process, a reason why the most densely populated regions should go on multiplying as much as God allows us to grows our numbers.

Mind Controlled Bionic Limbs

For decades, scientists have been interested in developing a technique for interpreting brain activity to motor output — in other words, decipher the brain's electric patterns and convert them into coherent thought.

If this technology are available, then it will benefit so many people. From video to people who with disabilities, is a new thing that can make their easier or more interesting. That is a new hope for those people who have disabilities caused by war, disease....... It give a second chance for those people with disabilities to walk, talk using their "body" again, it will improve their daily life in a magically way. Dumb will be able to talk, lame can be able to walk again with their new "feet". For entertainment it will be a super start of video games, those fanatics video game player, it's a new immersive experience for the video game player. It may even become a polygraph.  

I personally think this equipment should be apply at the medical field, because that is the main purpose for this type of technology, helping up the patients. For what we have in present, having this type of technology is not perfect enough. It may being used by those people having different idea of this thing. Because its not just a tool that can help people, if people use in a different way it bring damage too. We always want our life be more perfect, but nothing we can making it perfect.

Green city

The city in the future will have more green. In the recent life, the environment protection is a big problem for our citizens, we are not only want a wealthy life but a healthy liveing condition with the fresh air, clean water and rich natural resources. Also from the research, more and more program is about change the environment or make the environment better. I could image in the future, under the strive of people, the environment will be better, the earth is not just covered by the water but also the green plants. 

   The buildings is covered by the leaves, the water is so clear that we could drink directly, it will be the birds singing around us not the noisy of machine. Everyone could eat health, we will not smell the unsavoury smell bituminous road, but the road full of the balmy of soil. We can enjoy the rain, no worry about the acid rain will hurt our skin； we can enjoy the snow, no worry about the dirty snow will be everywhere； we can enjoy the winds, no worry about the vehicle exhaust. We can enjoy the spring, we can enjoy the summer, we can enjoy the autumn, we can enjoy the winter, no worries about the air is not fresh, the city is not clean, the strong ultraviolet radiation will come though the atmosphere can melting the ice and improve the sea level and cover the lands. We have no worries to live in a safety, healthy and clean condition. Earth is beautiful under the protection. 

   Live in a good environment is the things the human need to do before everything, only we have a good environment and comfortable condition we can have more development. Green the earth is our dream but the dream we will come true soon. Protect the environment, give the original facial to earth is the thing everyone people should work on. 

Iphone 44

The film "Iphone in 30 years later" , is an example for how technology change our society, as global society, Apple seems like the leader of IT companies and Ipohone become a phenomenon of our society, everyone has a Iphone. Since 2007 the first Iphone faced to us, it just keep influence the electronic product an our life. People go crazy for Iphone, is easy to imagine what will going to happen if the film come true, is not bad to let it comes true, it showing the progress of our technology. But if we consider it at another point, and think of what gonna change if it really comes true, how this Iphone will affect our society. I think the purpose of making the film was trying to show how power the Iphone was, and how it changing or influence our life and thought, it like you can download everything at Iphone and those thing just comes up nowhere.

Theres lot of confusion, so if you can download everything you need for life, than how all those stuff gonna come up, who going to manufacture them or their just a data. Which it mean things you only have to do with living is just download tons of tons data? Eventhough it could comes true is it really allow to be face to the market? You can even download a gun in Iphone and shot it, so it become like a IGUN, IWEAPON? If you can just need tons of data for living so how people going to make money have to a job even to work? If it work it mean Apple are controlling people in some kind of way, they was like saying buy a Iphone there get everything you need for your life, convince us to use Iphone only, because nothing else you need beside the Iphone, it can eve shot you down. 

At the end i think this is not gonna work, even they have those fantastic ideas but in the real life it just can't be happen.

Eureka

The clip from "Eureka" could be an example of government secret. It show me two different worlds in that clip one side is normally how our life was, on the other side theres tons of people working in the lab room. Walter was send to a room that is likely a room that full of technology that belong this age. Is seem like a group of people that secrecy working for a company or some kind of government department. Walter live in that intelligent room and he didn't used to it. Obviously that technology is not belong the period of time that Walter in. I didn't watch the rest of it i don't know what else it have. But one things is sure the high-tech for our normal life always make us being lazy.

Those technology is going to change people's lifestyle in some ways, it could be helping people have easy life at home or bring people to a way that being lazy. However new thing can make our daily living easier, but is it really helping us? Relate to another film about future people, the high-tech alway divided people in two ways, either give them a better daily living or make people step back and content with the current situation. But when the technology enter the market, have they ever think about the consequence that bring? ( the long term behaviour) theres too much to concern for letting a new technology face to the world.

 High-tech alway contradiction, it can give people a convenient daily life but in long term it maybe be a different situation.