The Sixth Sense

- TED is developing a product that will act as a sixth sense, giving us relative information for a lot of product or information very quick and easily
-The Sixth Sense with give us complete mobile access to any information at any time regardless of where you are or what you need
-The Sixth Sense is currently in a beta phase but will hopefully be in stores fairly soon
-The Sixth Sense is said to cost about $300 when it is first released making it about as much as many good cell phones or cheap computers
-The Sixth sense searches everything like a computer but does it very quickly, and efficiently without having to type anything in
-You can use The Sixth Sense anywhere that there is a surface that you can project an image onto
-You can use virtually anything that is specifically colored to point out different fingers to act as a mouse, the person in the video was using marker caps

What's Wal-Mart up to?

• Wal-Mart started off as a very small one room store and has expanded since
• Wal-Mart goes into small towns and puts a large amount of people out of work due to low prices
• Wal-Mart drives down retail wages $3 billion a year
• Wal-Mart doesn't really care about employees, they care about employees getting work done
• Employee health does not matter to Wal-Mart
• Wal-Mart us very opposed to Union, may be the most opposed to Union in the US
• Wal-Mart will not pay overtime but asks employees for off the clock work very frequently
• Wal-Mart has to face lawsuits in 31 states for issues with underpaid workers
• Wal-Mart employs illegal immigrants to work overnight and clean for little pay
• Women are paid less than men, and colored people are treated badly
• http://www.catawbariverkeeper.org/ is a ladies website concerning Wal-Mart environmental hazards
• Employees were fired for telling the truth about Wal-Mart factories
• Wal-Mart commercials say their products are made in the USA, quite decieving, they are made in china, bangladesh, etc.
• The Waltons have given less then 1% of their fortune to charity's, Bill gates gave 58%
• Wal-Mart has security cameras with no security watching them
• The power of the people to control the new economy (digital economy)
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India Reborn

• India designed an SUV called the scorpion that they wish to sell in america, this is a car recommended for India's middle class
• India is second in the worlds economy and is striving to be first
• India analyzes results of people who just had CT scans and sends it back to the US at incredible speeds
• There is 2 realities in India, the middle class with vehicles (300,000,000 people) and the countryside people (800,000,000 people)
• Of the many crop Indian farmers grow and pick, cotton is the cruelest of all for it is prone to disease
• Many Indian farmers commit suicide due to having very high debts
• Farmers who move to the city get jobs such as beating the dirt out of people clothes for 50 rupees a day (roughly $1.25)
• Bangalore is a richer part of India
• Silicon Valley
• There are 22 languages spoken in India, but if you speak english your are more likely to get a job
• There is only 1 computer in the entire village
• My opinion is that India is quickly becoming first world, but still has some work to do

Digital Nation

• Technology is trying to make our generation and our parents generation much more alike and trying to pull us together, but it is pulling us apart
• Technology is turning into a major addiction in todays society, even in schools whether its gaming or social networking
• Psychologically multitasking is impossible, your brain can not do more than 1 thing at a time
• People who think they are very good at multi tasking, are actually slower than those who do 1 thing at a time without switching between tasks until finished
• Most kids spend 50 hours a week with digital media, i would say i spend roughly this amount of ime using digital media but i have access to digital media constantly
• A few people have died in internet cafe's due to gaming marathons without eating or drinking very much
• I do console/computer game, a large variety of games, but not excessive amounts that I think I have a problem with gaming too much, but i do not think my mom enjoys me gaming in my free time
• I first used the internet when i was roughly 6-7, maybe sooner, i can not remember exactly when i first used the internet
• My mom knows how to use most of the internet and anything business related but i know a lot more about computers than her, my dad internet games himself and knows roughly what i do about computers
• The world has sped up in a lot of ways, but education hasn't
• Marc Prensky
• If you don't keep up with technology a little bit, you will be really left behind
• I have friends online that i have never met in various games that i have never met in real life
• Industrial age vs. Digital economy
• We currently have US pilots flying things called drones (basically robot aircrafts) fighting wars in Iraq at no cost to US lives and do the job with amazing precision
• The US military is trying to teach and simulate war through virtual reality to kids between the ages 13 and 17 because hey can not recruit them
• I feel that schools today are still okay, but because of the increase in technology we should add more technology for learning purposes to schools to enhance teaching to todays society