Goldberg's Accomplishments

The inventors of this world are artists. Maybe not in the traditional way of those such as Van Gogh or Beethoven, but they are masters of creativity nonetheless. Each has had a hand in painting modern society, brushing on improvements, recreating civilization with newer and better technology, making it more and more superior with each passing year. One such father of society is Nikola Tesla. Throughout his lifetime, he added many strokes to the painting of technology. Though his contributions were great, he received very little recognition for his work, making him the greatest tragic hero of the twentieth century.

In this world, we cannot conceive any moment of our life without technology. It makes its presence in every moment of our day-to-day life. It is quite surprising that a master who invented the machine has now in turn, became a slave to an inanimate master. Hence, something that needs to be changed and taken into account is the reducing the increasing dependence on technology and its negative influence on our life.

The inventors of this world are artists. Maybe not in the traditional way of those such as Van Gogh or Beethoven, but they are masters of artistry nonetheless. Each has had a hand in painting modern society, brushing on improvements, recreating society with newer and better technology, making it more and more superior with each passing year. One such father of society is Nikola Tesla. Throughout his lifetime, he added many strokes to the painting of technology. Though his contributions were great, he received very little recognition for his work. This tragic hero

When I was eleven years old I went into my dad’s office and looked around for metal mechanisms. I shuffled through the bins that were filled with the foreign pieces and ran my hands against the cold metal that made up the parts. I could see all the little lines and components on the parts which to me looked like a some kind of mechanical city which was once generated with surges of electricity. I decided that I really wanted to build and operate one of these mechanical city's. My dad has built many computers and at times I would watch him fiddle with the wires and different parts. I would occasionally hand him a flashlight, so he could look around the dark case, which would make me feel like I am contributing something.

The story is Duke of Milan ask da Vinci to kitchen for a special day. This is the first technology use before Industrial Revolution. He designed conveyor belts to transport to foods to preparers. Also he think first sprinkler system for safety but it is not successful design. It is not worked successfully but it is an early story of UX practice(Gelb, 2001). Frederick Winslow Taylor and Henry Ford think about how making human labor more efficient and beneficial. But at the other hand there was risk that make people work like cogs in a machine who take role in processes. Taylor research efficient of interactions between workers, machine and tools. This is what UX designers do today(Buley, 2013). In 1948 Toyota production in assembly line workers situation are important as technology. In that point Toyota experienced a new perspective to role of human interaction with technology(Tariq,

“Motion Engaged”, as it displayed, the robot turned around and moved towards the fourteen year old, whose fathomless curiosity waited for answers to a thousand questions regarding the mysterious object. Just one thought kept coming back to me – which one of them was a miracle, the components that made the robot alive, or the man who knew exactly what to do with them. Both, I finally concluded. If god has blessed us with semiconductors, it is man, who in his conquest for progress has discovered in these materials the means of putting his dreams to shape.

“One man’s “magic” is another man’s engineering”, these words by Robert A. Heinlein have always fascinated me and makes me feel proud to be an engineer. Engineering is a field that improves the quality of life of people by creating ways to live better, think better and make the society more productive. Thus it has touched people’s lives since centuries.

Technological advancement, with no doubt, is such a huge impact in shaping the world. As humans, unlike any other living creature, we have the ability to use our mind for reasoning. Reason is the capacity for consciously making sense of things, for establishing and verifying facts, and changing or justifying practices, institutions, and beliefs based on new or existing information.[1] With this power, we are able to imagine things, and with our clever minds, we are also able to create these imaginations. Creators, inventors, experimenter, maker, founder, innovator, pioneer – these are what we call the people behind every technology existing at present. Invention has made the world what it is today. It

The new technologies and its profits fell into the hands of those that created it, thus growing a huge interest in technological innovation.  And in effect, Teich tells us that “as industrialization proceeded, these men became true believers in technological improvement as the primary basis for universal progress” (7).  This new idea of progress said that if one can guarantee the advancement of new scientific technologies, then the remaining parts of life will be taken care of in turn.  This placed values like freedom, justice, beauty, self-fulfillment and harmony to “secondary status” (8).  In response to this change in values, “romantic” writers commented that the new machine power is superficial, object-oriented and egotistical.  The new inventions were “improved means to unimproved ends” (10).  The new powerful machines were considered a form of “idolatry like that attacked by the Old Testament prophets in a disguised, new-fashioned form” (10).  The two sides have now been brought back to the table in recent years, and Albert Teich believes that “we urgently need a set of political, social, and cultural goals comparable to those formulated at the beginning… if we are to accurately assess the worth of new technologies” (11).

“What a computer is to me is the most remarkable tool that we have ever come up with. It's the equivalent of a bicycle of our minds” – Steve Jobs.

In Part 2 Schumacher describes the value of resources in our society. In technology with a human face he describes how technology has affected us. Although it has the advantage of doing most of the work Schumacher believes that we are missing out on what we love most working with our hands and brains. “Virtually all real production has been turned into an inhuman chore which does not enrich a man but empties him” (Pg. 124)

“Without mechanical engineering, all the seven wonders of the world wouldn’t have existed because all the wonders have the link with mechanical engineering.”

“Our predecessors endeavoured to make men into machines; we are endeavouring to make machines into men” (CHARLES EDWARD JERNINGHAM, The Maxims of Marmaduke).

Ralph M. Stair (1999) emphasized that the development of technology through the years have enabled us to do more with less effort. From the orientation of the light bulb to the industrial revolution and beyond, we have continuously tried to in a more efficient means of doing tasks.

Chapter 1 THE PROBLEM AND ITS BACKGROUND Introduction Even in ancient times, people have found ways to make their lives easier through technology. Centuries before, humans have created the foundation of modern technological advances by creating the simplest machines, such as the wheel and the ladder. Using human intelligence and innovation, we have created a world full of possibilities. Over time, we have created technological masterpieces that have even expanded into the kingdom of biology and astronomy. Scientists are now finding ways to create organs and mount