Neil Gershenfeld's When Things Start To Think

It seems not a day goes by without news of a major calamity echoing in the chamber that is the news. This echo chamber might even lead you to think that we are living in the most dangerous time in history. Protest spring up in one city, wars start in another country, a terrorist group kills civilians, or North Korea performs a nuclear test. What this news might not tell you is that we are living in the most peaceful time, that less children die in birth today than ever before, that many diseases that were once prevalent have all but been eradicated. This is what George Saunders speaks off in his essay “The Braindead Megaphone” he asks use to imagine a man

Question: Discuss how the author has positioned you to respond to the characters/ subjects in the text.

Another device is about to change our lives- 3D printing. The traditional way we print today is 2D printing. We print on paper. The data we print cannot be touched physically. If we print a picture of a shoe on a paper, we cannot hold that shoe physically in our hands. That is about to change with 3D printing. This new technology will allow us to print almost anything we choose and we will be able to feel that object.

According to Barnes “Autism is found throughout the world in families of all racial, ethnic, and socio-economic backgrounds.”(Barnes 2015). Grandin also explains her experiences living with autism in her novel Thinking in Pictures. Grandin acquired her the ability to create and imagine through her visual thinking. In contrast, one barrier that hindered her was her inability to comprehend or associate social cues and emotion to a picture. With this in mind, Grandin using her natural talents to learn enabled her to push through what most people consider an accessibility issue.

Unwind was a book filled with sass, adventure, and daring escapes. I give it a four point five stars out of five. The character development was phenomenal and the main female protagonist was great without being too annoying. But the ending, I feel, was a flop. It was building up to this huge climax and it just didn’t feel that exciting when it happened. Other than the ending being a flop this was a great book and I feel that more people should read Neil Shusterman’s books because his books are unique from anything else in the YA scene and they will just pull you in from the first sentence. I think that dystopian has become a very worn out genre in YA literature but this doesn’t feel like dystopian it feels like a great huge pile of awesomeness

Have you ever wondered if we need nature more than nature needs us? Anthony Brandt, the author of “When Nature Comes too Close,” writes that nature causes many problems. He shows this by stating only negative things about nature and not the positive things in nature. Humans and nature affect each other equally because humans spray harmful pesticides to protect their food supply, animals spread diseases that can be harmful to humans and humans and nature are able to exist together while benefiting each other. Humans spray harmful pesticides, which is both necessary and unnecessary.

W.R.Yuma's production methods is with 3D-printing technology. “For the moment, we work with plastics from discarded car dashboards, a black plastic, and from soda bottles and fridges for white applications. The glasses are polished and assembled by hand, and the designs are ours. Local production is another important aspect of the circular economic model. That's why we decided to cooperate with Flexpack, a social-oriented workplace. In that way we can keep the price acceptable and create local jobs.”

Perception is everything. People never know what is going on with the another race or side. In Toni Morrison’s “Recitatif” she brings up racism and the societal normal. She never reveals the race of either of the girls in this story. Never knowing the race of the girls other than they are two different races shows how one race never knows that the other is thinking about or where they are coming from. In this story, two girls meet from very different back grounds and different races and become friends, then go separate directions. They continue to meet throughout their lives and try to rekindle the childhood friendship as adults. This shows how children do not know the differences or the color lines that society has put into place. As children, gender, race, and religion is never an issue. Racism is something that society has created. Society has made racism one of the main barriers throughout the world. In the story, the two girls are friends and live in a group home. The girls are witnesses to some bad things carried out by the older girls in the home. They end up separating and going different ways in life. When they meet up later, while rekindling their relationship they begin to reminisce about their childhood. They come to find out that their perception and memories do not exactly match up. The way things are perceived can change an outlook on life; after finding out how others see the same situation, it might change who you are and what you

It gives people power to create anything through knowledge and technology. According to Eddie Krassenstein, a co-founder and director of the largest 3D printing news publications on the web gave background information, on the history of 3D printers. The first 3D printer took 6-8 weeks to print an object, was invented by Charles Hull on March 9, 1983 (Eddie Krassenstein). With the advancement of technology, 3D printers can now printer within hours. As reported by, Robert Green a cadalyst author, a CAD programmer and an expert in CAD management expounds that, Three-dimensional printers are fast and easy to use nowadays. The printers allows people to print within hours instead of waiting weeks for your object to arrive. 3D printers use “plastics, nylon, rubber like materials, etc.” (Green 2). Mashable, a YouTube channel that uploads videos of the latest innovation in technology, global news, entertainment, and more. When we have downloaded the software into the computer and have a “blueprint or downloaded a design from thingiverse, then you can print” (Mashable). Thingiverse is a website where anyone can download free drawings and blueprints to various 3D objects and print them three dimensionally. After all the measurements of the object is correct and the design complete. You can send it or transfer it to the printer to print

The universe around us is, without a doubt, the strangest place known to man. Mysteries beyond imagination lie in the incomprehensively massive place this little Earth calls home. Consequently, scientist’s greatest mission today lies in the great unknown. Every day these scientists work to uncover the mysteries of the universe, to bring light to the darkness of space. One of these discoveries, and possibly one of the most crucial, is nothing. To clarify, one of scientists’ most important discoveries is the presence of cosmic voids, or the vast emptiness that occupies the majority of the universe. But why is “nothing” so important? In the December 2016 release of the Discover magazine, Adam Hadhazy published an article, Why Nothing Really Matters,

    Growing up in life, I have had many different interests in terms of hobbies. Most every hobby I have come across and enjoyed quickly faded from my interest. But one hobby specifically has peaked my interest over the past few years and I continuously am engaged and working at this almost on a daily level. This hobby has been the fabrication of parts using a CAD software and 3d printing them. I've mostly been designing simple parts to help with everyday life such as cable management loops, parts for drones, and the occasional useless knick-knack type of design. In the next few paragraphs, we will dive deeper into the process and motivation of my hobby.

“Although 3-D printers are not yet a standard part of home-computing equipment, the latest generation of devices, such as Cube® by 3D Systems, the Cubex™ or Makerbot’s Replicator™2X - which retail for between one and three thousand US dollars - are bringing the possibility of home manufacturing one step closer to reality” (Jewell). Now the biggest difference between traditional manufacturing and 3D printing will be the emergence of mass customization. Goods will be, “infinitely more customized, because altering them won’t require retooling, only tweaking the instructions in the software. Creativity in meeting individuals’ needs will come to the fore, just as quality control did in the age of rolling out sameness” (D'Aveni). When you have a product that is printed out individually from software with your own customization, then there would be no reason in buying a product that will look like something another person can own because of its ordinary accessibility. Creating physical 3D models in a fast, easy and affordable way has great potential, especially when you can do it in the comfort of your home.

3D Printing is one of the newest and innovative technological advancements. The opportunities to create something new and inventive is endless. It only takes one imaginative idea and this fascinating tool can make it become a reality. “3D printing has the potential to change everything” says a former ship engineer (Hart). This new piece of technology can have an impact not only in the United States, but also globally in a variety of aspects, many being highly beneficial, but others that bring ethical and harmful concerns to the equation that could cause 3D printing to take a turn for the worse.

In London, a team of young entrepreneurs designing a 3D printer that prints a laptop, are another source of inspiration. The printer does PCB fabrications and the casing printing of the laptop (Fulton, 2014).

Zode.z, Shane.X and Dejun.C argued that From the period of 1980s, lots of new ways of digital manufacturing come out such as Computer Integrated Manufacturing (CIM), Automated Manufacturing . (Zode.z et al, 2011: 2)