Technology
By Spalding and Andrew
This page is about the technology of the world. As you saw on the FrontPage, this project is based on the book If The World Were A Village by David J. Smith. In this book, the world is reduced to a village of 100 people, with one person equalling about 64 million people. This is done to make numbers easier to comprehend, and make percentages easier to understand. Therefore, with so many people in the real world, compared to the Global Village, the numbers have to be rounded, to make them work in the Global Village. In this Wiki, we aim to go over and above the data in the book.
"The world is very different now. For man holds in his mortal hands the power to abolish all forms of human poverty, and all forms of human life." -John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Note: Many of the things you are about to learn about are for people with money. So just remeber not all people can have stuff like this.
The picture above was taken of the earth at night in outer space, and it may give you an idea of which countries have the most electricity. As you can see, if you look at the US, Europe, or Japan they are filled with light, but if you look at Africa there are only a few places in it with light. With this picture you can learn a lot about the technology of diferent countries. There are plenty of counries that we could name, that wish that they could have what industrialized countries have in their everyday lives. For example, electricity, running water, food and a warm house to sleep in every night, while a family in Africa might look forward to a good meal once a week but in the United States if we don't have lunch or dinner than we have a fit, and say that we are really hungry, or starving. So almost nobody in an industrialized country knows what it is like to be hungry.
Electricity
Electricity is very important when it comes to technology. Not all countries have regular access to electricity. So that means that they can't have technology like nanotechnology and weapons of mass destruction that need electricity to be created. These regions are Latin America, Africa, Middle East, and Non-OECD Europe. These regions have some electricity, but not much. It might take a number of years for the whole world to have electricity, but it might be possible with natural resources like wind and water power.
$100 laptops
A millionaire named Nick Negroponte is giving out special $100 laptops to kids in developing countries. These aren't just ordinary laptops, though. These laptops are specially built for kids. This makes them extremely durable. For example, you could stick the keyboard under water, you could throw it at a wall, you could bury it underground. You could do almost anything to it, and it will still work. It features a camera, a swivel folding screen, a solar panel that can be attached (for recharging), a SD card slot, "ears", the antenna, that has three times better wi-fi range than an average $3,000 computer. The special thing about the "ears" are that they don't need to be directly connected to the internet. They can be connected to a computer that is connected to a computer, etc... that is connected to the internet. This is very crucial to the concept of laptops with internet in rural areas. With these abilities, rural areas can have internet in no time.
Internet for Africa
Africa will soon have inernet. In 2009, a 32.5 million dollar undersea fiber-optic-cable project will be finished. There will 21 countries in sub-saharian Africa that will be affected by this project. That's 250,000,000 more people! Before this project, less than 4% of the people in Africa had internet. This will be a big accomplishment for Africa because they are now on their way to becoming an industrialized continent!
The Dream Boat of a life time!
Have you ever wished you could live on the sea? Well this dream is called the "The Freedom Ship". This ship is a community for 100,000 people. It is a massive floating super-structure that has malls, banks, schools, hotels, resturants etc.. They even have an Airport so that people can travel between the land and the massive boat. You could live on this giant floating structure for your whole life with the comfort of a normal town. The whole structure moves slowly around the world, but takes some stops to get supplies. They say that it would take 3 years for this ship to travel around the world. This boat is technically an average community in the water!
Nanotechnology
One nanometer is equal to a billionth of a meter. This is like comparing a marble the earth. When objects are created in a nano-size size their properties start to change. When a person takes a very small nano-size scoop of something it will change color. They change color because the area that the electrons bounce around in shrink to an uncomfortable size. That makes them bounce around faster and that causes them to change color. The longest user of this technology is nature, it has been using nanotechnology for hundreds of thousands of years. We have learned alot from plants and beans. If you look very closely through a microscope you can see little machines in a growing bean at the nanoscale helping the plant grow. My opinion is that the greatest thing about nanotechnology is that it can cure cancer. It is definetly less harsh than chemo therapy and it tuches nothing but the tumors, so you don't have to lose hair! So far it has been tested on mice and they were tumor free for 90 days! Nanotechnology is an amazing thing, but it is not necessary. Some people in un-industrialized countries don't even have pluming or electricity! So we should be grateful that we can even create and have this technology.
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Comments (Show all 48)
May said
at 12:16 pm on Feb 13, 2008
You to much time on the laptop and not enough time on broader subjects.
Ellie said
at 12:22 pm on Feb 13, 2008
Yeah, you peoples can most likely go way way further into the subject of technology. You guys have a lot of stuff about computers and television and such, but there is a lot of technology that has more important uses. Say things that doctors use to help save lives every day. Those kind of things that people around the world don't have and sometimes need. Potato.
shoshie the shoshie said
at 12:30 pm on Feb 13, 2008
This hurts my eyes. It is too colorful and bg and bold.
spud said
at 11:00 am on Feb 14, 2008
Andrew did some of work too
Gary Falgout said
at 11:27 am on Feb 14, 2008
The pages are starting to come together. It is looking really good. Your comments should give more details. Also, it is very important that YOU LOG OUT each time or your name will stay in the edit page and anyone can change content under your name.
Andrea Bittle said
at 11:30 pm on Feb 14, 2008
I have to agree with Ellie. We talked about technology being about "tools" and such and not being limited to computers and gadgets. To someone in an isolated, poor village, technology might mean plumbing, roads, and consistent energy for lights. basically, I'm saying, you should Consider technology from another's perspective.
Andrea Bittle said
at 11:31 pm on Feb 14, 2008
Oh, also, major spelling and grammar mistakes. please proofread!
Emipoo said
at 9:15 am on Feb 15, 2008
You guys need to listen to Ms. B! In America technology is mainly about computers and T.V. but in other countries it means tools like big knives to cut down fruits from trees or to do other chores. I also think it would look better if you put the same amount of text in each part. You need more text in "Internet for Africa" and less in the section about the 100 dollar lap tops.
Isaac said
at 9:38 am on Feb 15, 2008
The nanotechnology blurb/paragraph is so cool!
Pete said
at 10:29 am on Feb 15, 2008
cool, add a comment on this page link.
Da Niel said
at 10:30 am on Feb 15, 2008
Overall, I liked your page but u have some spelling mistakes.
spud said
at 10:30 am on Feb 15, 2008
i know we are fixing them
Isaac said
at 10:32 am on Feb 15, 2008
I don't get how nanotechnology has anything to do with anything!
spud said
at 10:34 am on Feb 15, 2008
IT CAN CURE CANCER FOR NA'IM'S SAKE!!!!
Pete said
at 10:57 am on Feb 22, 2008
For Na'ims sake>? wwwwhat? And you spelled "a lot" wrong in the nanotechnology section, and you shouldnt use it anyway. Aside from theat, your page is coming along nicely.
spud said
at 11:15 am on Feb 22, 2008
Sheesh i don't want to put pete's sake down it gets boring after a while. I like
Pet E. said
at 10:39 am on Feb 25, 2008
spad what did you mean to finish you comment wiv?
na/im said
at 10:41 am on Feb 25, 2008
You need to relate to the graph of lights to technology
na/im said
at 10:42 am on Feb 25, 2008
The blubs aren't related to each other.
da master said
at 9:52 pm on Feb 28, 2008
he naim we get the point
Da Niel said
at 11:55 am on Mar 3, 2008
What is the first map for?
addy said
at 12:22 pm on Mar 3, 2008
I agree with Da Niel. The first map on doesn't seem to have any major use, and there's no blurb above or below it to tell what it is for. Other than that, the page is pretty good, except for some spelling errors.
spud said
at 12:23 pm on Mar 3, 2008
shinokydoke
na\'im said
at 1:42 pm on Mar 4, 2008
I think you need to talk about technology in other countries. This page is almost just about the U.S. and other developed countries.
Elllie said
at 1:56 pm on Mar 4, 2008
I suppose it's O.K., but I think that you could make your transitions a little less confusing. Other than that it's looking good!
Elllie said
at 2:00 pm on Mar 4, 2008
na/im, you spelled blurbs, blubs.
na\'im said
at 2:06 pm on Mar 4, 2008
I think you need to make the picture of the world at night bigger.
Bennett said
at 2:25 pm on Mar 4, 2008
I think that you need to put a blurb about the "world at night" picture. Maybe you could add something about how technology is affecting education and vice versa. Your sentences (especially in the paragraph on electricity) don't seem to flow. As with every other page, you need to spell and grammar check. You should be able to write a lot more about technology in the world.
Andrea Bittle said
at 1:16 pm on Mar 16, 2008
This page is really coming along. A couple of things I'm questioning: There is not a map of the world showing electricity, but you do talk about it. If the map doesn't show well, you could try describing it in words or at least put a link to it--it's definitely relevant.
The Dream boat? why is this here? It is interesting but who could afford to live on it? Who would want to?
Great job about the 100 dollar laptop.
Last paragraph is full of spelling errors.
Walter said
at 12:57 pm on Mar 18, 2008
You know how it saw the picture above was the earth... there isn't a picture above I think you need to change that it is kind of wierd
spudkus said
at 1:38 pm on Mar 18, 2008
Sorry the picture got deleted by accident when the pollution page named a picture that they put on there page the same thing and our picture ended up replaced by a picture of smoke stacks. so we just replaced it.
Da Niel said
at 11:16 am on Apr 1, 2008
DO you think that the .00 after the $100 would b necessary?
손창현 said
at 11:16 am on Apr 23, 2008
Electric map is cool and this page is awesome.
rebecca said
at 10:44 am on Apr 28, 2008
I will really want Nick Negroponte special $100.00 laptops. And the electric map give me many information. So I learn many things at this page.
da master said
at 12:47 pm on Apr 29, 2008
I am glad that you all liked our wiki page
addy! said
at 1:01 pm on Apr 29, 2008
What is Non-OECD Europe?
da master said
at 1:02 pm on Apr 29, 2008
Non-OECD Europe stands for the countries that aren't in the European Union.
addy! said
at 1:14 pm on Apr 29, 2008
what's a fiber-optic-cable?
da master said
at 1:15 pm on Apr 29, 2008
A fiber-optic-cable is a very strong cable that is made with millions of fibers.
spalding said
at 11:38 am on Sep 14, 2008
this brings back memories
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