This week, I read an article that focused on a New Hampshire town that launched police drones. The main idea of this article is to show that police are using new technology to help get their job done. One idea that I found interesting was “One of seven grant-funded Portsmouth, N.H., Police Department drones, now available regionally for public-safety purposes, can take infrared photos from 200 feet in the air showing the locations of people inside a building below.

It can light up a crime scene, carries two batteries and can find people in the water or woods by programming one of its two cameras to photograph people with specific temperatures. The DJI Matrice 210 "quadcopter" can also find hot spots in a burning building and outfitted with accessories, cost about $25,000, said police Lt. Chris Cummings, commander of the department's new drone team.” (Dinan).

 I thought this was interesting because it shows that police are advancing with technology too and these drones are going to make their jobs much easier if these drones can take pictures of crime scenes, find lost people or even find people in the water or the woods. 

I agree with this idea because I think it will be a more effective way for police to do their job and I think this will make catching or looking for people a lot easier. One piece of evidence that supports my view comes from Government Technology. 

This article states that this drone can light up crime scenes and it can find people in the water or woods just by programming one of its cameras to people with specific temperatures. This supports my view because they must have done testing to know this drone is capable of doing these things and if this is true it will help police all over catch criminals and solve cases and make their jobs so much easier. 

I agree with police using drones for public safety purposes because with these drones working by their side the police will be able to do more in one day and I think these drones will have many benefits. 

Government Technology. ELIZABETH DINAN, 25 Nov. 2019, www.govtech.com/

        public-safety/New-Hampshire-Town-Launches-New-Police-Drone-Squad.html.

        Accessed 16 Dec. 2019.

This week, I watched a Ted Talk, which is a presentation that focused on “Why You Should Quit Technology”. The main idea of this presentation is to get people to quit technology because it increases the rates of depression.


One idea that I found interesting was that the speaker Cal Newport stated that people are getting so hooked on technology and its a huge part of this generation and its not good for people to constantly be on their technology as much as they are.


I thought this was interesting because Newport says social media causes depression and the rates of depression are increasing. I think that Newport is making technology seem worse than it really is.


I don't disagree that it is a factor in the depression rates increasing but I think he is making technology sound a lot worse than it is seeing that he has never used it before.


This made me wonder the percent of people with depression from technology, so I looked up some more information about this idea.


On the website “Child Mind Institute” I found more information about technology causing depression. One piece of information I found was ‘s using social media making our kids unhappy?


Evidence is mounting that there is a link between social media and depression. In several recent studies, teenage and young adult users who spend the most time on Instagram, Facebook and other platforms were shown to have a substantially (from 13 to 66 percent) higher rate of reported depression than those who spent the least time.” (Miller).


Does this mean that social media such as Snapchat and Instagram are actually causing depression? According to Child MInd Institute, studies show there is a correlation not a causation of social media causing depression. One reason the correlation seems so coincidental is that an increase in depression occurred during the same time as the rise in smartphone use.





Miller, Caroline. "Does Social Media Cause Depression?" Child Mind Institute ,


childmind.org/article/is-social-media-use-causing-depression/. Accessed 12


Dec. 2019.











Newport, Cal. "Why You Should Quit Social Media ." Tedxtyson , June 2016.


Lecture.

Can self driving cars see pedestrians? Does a self driving car know if a person is crossing the road or if a biker is riding down the side of the road? Should these cars be legal if they cant see people walking across the road? These cars need to be able to notice a pedestrian or animals and think “I need to slow down or move over.”


“The reality of how little some of these vehicles know came to light last week as an investigation by the National Transportation Safety Board of a deadly Uber crash revealed the car was unable to distinguish a person from a vehicle or bicycle, and it wasn’t programmed to know that pedestrians might jaywalk.” (Siddiqui,).


I think that these cars should be recalled and manufacturers need to make a solution for this. People buying these cars might think they are 100% self driving and all they need to do is sit back while they get driven around but if these cars can't recognize hazards how safe can they be?


In the future will all cars be electric? What will all of the people who went to school to learn automotive do if this happens? People who farm or use diesel trucks for towing won't have jobs if everything is electric. Even if everything were to switch to electric people who need the power of a gas or diesel motor would not switch to electric. A lot of jobs will be lost if everything changes to electric and it will be a huge change. Everyone and all the businesses that has to do with engines will go out of business and leave 1.7 million people jobless.





Siddiqui, Faiz. "What self-driving cars can't recognize may be a matter of life


and death." The Washington Post , 11 Nov. 2019, www.washingtonpost.com/


technology/2019/11/11/


what-self-driving-cars-cant-recognize-may-be-matter-life-death/. Accessed

10 Dec. 2019.