Technology Essays and Research Papers Page 12

Living in the 21st century has taught us that the use of smart phones, social media, and technology continues to dominate our population despite one’s age or occupation. In the health care field specifically, mostly all hospitals and outpatient facilities like doctor’s offices have transitioned from the use of paper charts to utilizing electronic health…

Everyone has heard one of the most iconic quotes of all-time from Apollo 11 mission commander Neil Armstrong, “That’s one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind.” But what does that really mean? Chances are everyone in their lifetime has looked up into the stars and dreamed about going into space. The idea…

Talk about sampling rates, sampling rates goes all the way back to the 1960s and 1970s before digital technology came into use where sounds were still being recorded and played on tape. Another word for sampling rate is sampling frequency. Now, sampling rate defines the number of samples per second taken from a continuous signal….

The prologue to innovation adoption has brought about a number of theoretical frameworks proposed to investigate the major factors affecting adoption of new innovation and technologies. As a result a lot of explanatory variables have been identified to measure and predict how those factors are affecting adoption of new innovation and technologies. Nevertheless, most of…

Augmented Reality games and more applications are as of now overflowing with space for misunderstandings by confrontations with, law enforcement officers who are oblivious with the medium. Augmented Reality will allow convenience for criminal actors to enlist and collude with new members, and give new tools for accomplishing criminal arrangements. Police agencies are also working…

Won’t it be an amazing experience if all the devices in our house could take orders and perform their tasks without us inspecting them or even be in the house? Doesn’t this entire thought seem like directly out of Sci-Fi movies where we have only seen Batman or Iron Man talking to their devices or…

As we age, our body naturally changes. We can’t stop the process but with the technologies that we have today, we can slow down that process of aging. But sooner or later all the signs of aging will be visible. It’s the natural way of our bodies to behave. As an individual grows through infancy…

Imagine if you were you were floating through space, watching horror film or perhaps playing a video game, and it seemed like you were actually there. With the invention of virtual reality (VR), people are able to explore the illusion of this reality. Virtual reality is computer generated technology used to created a manufactured environment….

While there is still much research and experimentation to be done with quantum computing, the concept of such a machine makes it very much unlike modern computers, both in design and functionality. As a result, it is predicted to have a much higher processing power to solve intractable problems that are so complex and costly,…

In Clive Thompson’s article, “Smarter Than You Think,” and Nicholas Carr’s article, “Is Google Making Us Stupid,” both writers heavily focus on the effects of modern technologies, though they have opposing perspectives towards the matter. Thompson praises the use of technology whereas Carr claims how the internet is, in a way, reprogramming our memory. I…