Alexander Quach
From WLCS
10/5/10
- [1]
- The Google health is a personal health record. Its been redesigned to be more user-friendly and focus more on wellness and fitness.
- It focus on people and machines.
- [2]
- The Google ME was created to fight against other social networking such as myspace and facebook. To compete with facebook,the google me has created a program called wave which has abilities such as real time chat with voice and video. It's estimated that Facebook will overtake Google Me in the next year or two.
- Stakeholders: Richard Smedley, Dan Smith, and Robert Marshall.
- ITGS Social/ethical issue: People and machines, globalization and cultural diversity, and control.
- This article relates to me by me wanting to try and join Google ME.
- I would try it out to see if it's a good social network.
- [3]
- The federal institute of technology in Lausanne has created a new wheel chair which combines brain and messages with artificial intelligence. There are two webcam on the wheelchair machine which help manuver it from objects on the ground. It takes a week or two to master the wheel chair.
- Stakeholder: federal institute of technology in Lausanne.
- ITGS Social/ethical issue: People and machine.
- Area of Impact = Health
- If it is not too expensive then i think this is a very good idea.
- [4]
- The new google tv is coming soon and is supposed to rival tv brands like Samsung and Toshiba. The sony internet tv is going to cost around $200-300. These devices will be release in the upcoming month.
- Stakeholders:Viktor Mayer-Schönberger, Andrew Keen, and Jürgen Habermas
- ITGS Social/ethical issue: Intellectual propery
- Area of Impact: Entertainment
- I would be very happy if i was able to obtain this device.