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Advantages and disadvantages of future things.

Advantages and disadvantages of a Space Elevator.

Advantages

· People get to go up to space and experience it for the first time.

· The elevator will be very efficient compared to rockets as it will be able to carry a lot more people at once and be more energy and cost efficient than going into space in a rocket.

· The space elevator will open up more jobs for people going into the space industry.

· We can learn about how building in space works and about Nano materials.

Disadvantages

· Materials wear away a lot easier in space as there is atomic oxygen which eats through a lot of materials.

· As a lot of countries and companies may be putting money into this elevator this may cause controversy between many countries as they would all want it to be place in or near their countries.

· The cost of the elevator will upset many people as they may think that countries are wasting money on this when they could be spending the money to help less fortunate countries.

· There could be a high risk of something colliding with the elevator as it could be stationary and there are a lot of floating objects in space such as rocket parts, rocks and much more which could but many lives at risk.

Advantages and disadvantages of Cloning.

Advantages

· A lot of couples cannot conceive a baby because of fertility problems or the couple are same sex and cloning can help them, it helps them by taking both their genes and creating their own baby, this is the closest thing they would get to have a baby.

· Organ problems are very common and there are thousands of people on a waiting list for an organ and many die during the waiting phase, this is where cloning can help them as it can help them by cloning the organ they need.

· If a couple’s baby dies in an early stage of its life the couple would be devastated and cloning could help and bring the baby back.

Disadvantages

· The people who are cloned may get bullied ad may not feel much like a human because of this.

· The clone has a risk of a mutation and could result in health issues or even death.

· Bringing a whole new life form into the world and not much research being done it may bring some bad diseases into the world and things that we cannot stop.

· Many people think that cloning is wrong because it is not natural, and how would the clones do things such as would they have right or not.

How IT has changed employment

How IT has changed employment for the better

· IT has helped the speed of work within a workplace things can be edited out easily now, unlike when people used type writers in the past and would have to redo all the work with one mistake.

· The quality of machinery has changed, with safety prioritised a lot more than it used to be, like with all cars now it comes with a seatbelt and airbags and with machinery it comes with a shutoff button in case of an injury.

· The lives that have been saved because of the advancements with technology and equipment used, this could be with MRI scanners.

· It has also supplied more jobs for people who are interested in IT.

· You can work from home or on the go, this could be with a laptop which is connected to the businesses network meaning you can access all your work abroad.

How IT has changed employment in a negative way

· Employment rates have gone down because of the more advancements in technology and you don’t need loads of people to write one newspaper, some jobs don’t require as many staff as they used to do.

· People using self-checkout at supermarkets don’t interact with check out people and don’t socialise.

· People train for many years for one job which is getting taken over by robots because you don’t have to pay them.

Hacking, Copyright and Data Protection

Hacking- Russian spy have been reported to be behind the hacking which happened Pyeongchang, South Korea, this incident affected hundreds of computers within South Korea and also affected the winter Olympics internal servers and public Wi-Fi which led to some people not being able to print of their tickets for the Winter Games. The Russian spies have also tried to make it look like that North Korea were the culprits.

The hacking was not meant to be used for financial gains but just too cause chaos at the show, analyst now think this was an act of retaliation to the Olympic committee for banning many Russian athletes. I think this will need to be taken further to find out what group of people organised this event and what the South Koreans would like to do with this situation, the people who did this act should have some kind of punishment.

Hacking should and shouldn’t be illegal, it depends on the circumstances, and such as if you are hacking for malicious intent, then this is a crime and should be punishable by jail time, but if they are hacking for a job to see a company’s security but only if the company has allowed this. But for this event, I think that Russia should punish the people who did this to show that they did not call the shots for this and to show that the government did this.

Copyright- Wolverhampton wanderers are being sued, the 71 year old retired building contract manager is suing the club because they have apparently copied his distinctive angular wolfs head logo. Wolverhampton Wanderers may have to pay millions of pounds to sort this incident out if the building manager wins the case.

With copyright I don’t think it matters whether you are a big company or a small company the consequences should be the same, you are copying someone else’s work and claiming it as your own which is not right. But it is also hard because the logo might look completely different but the original owner thinks it looks exactly the same, or you didn’t realise somebody else had the same looking logo.

Data Protection- This act was put into place to protect the personal data of people who work for organisations, businesses or government and that the information is used fairly and lawfully.

The data protection bill will put asylum seekers lives at risk, this is because the seekers are disclosing personal information to the home office which could affect there family greatly if it were to fall to certain people/groups, people are concerned about the government wanting to remove key data protection, when these people are some of the most vulnerable people.

In my opinion all personal data held by companies should be kept secret and the people who could be put in danger when disclosing this information should be taught how to keep their data secure.

IT and the Individual

How has IT changed how your parents/grandparents would spend their time, compared to how you spend your time?

My parents use technology to look at the news and emails and that’s it really they will use an iPad and mobile phone, but watch TV at night, and don’t really use a computer so my parents have a lot of mobile devices that they use, they don’t really use social media as they are not sure what they would do with it.. My grandparents don’t use any sort of mobile devices or social media and only watch TV and read a lot of books, this is because some devices are too confusing and they don’t understand what to do with them. I spend my time checking my phone quite a lot and also playing video games, I multitask quite a lot when playing and searching things up at the same time, and I also use social media.

How has IT changed how you interact with other people?

Interactions these days usually occur by mobile phones or emails and you don’t really meet with people as much anymore. This is because you don’t need to go somewhere to talk to somebody.

How has IT changed how we learn, and how we obtain information?

IT is very big within class rooms now and have a huge effect on how we learn. Within a classroom there are always a couple computers and always a white board. Teaching with IT is a lot easier for the teacher, and can be a lot easier for a student, because just reading can get very boarding and making people interact while learning, can help.

How has IT changed the amount of exercise we do?

IT has affected the daily amount people should exercise, it has made a lot of young people not go out anymore and just stay inside and play there video games or watch TV, but on the offer hand it can improve exercise for some people because it can help them, such as within sports, people are a lot more lazy these days, as apps control a lot of what people do, they can change the heating within the house and alot more.