Although wireless power has been around for over a century, the general public’s understanding of this technology is extremely limited. Some see it as nothing more than some futuristic goal that coincides with a world that has flying cars and sidewalks that move similar to escalators. Since this technology is not well understood, the general public’s perception is that the wireless transfer of electricity could possibly possess hazardous implications to public health. This perception has often been shaped by rumors, news articles, books, and the media. Any company who looks to deploy this technology in the future will likely have to spend large sums of money to address these concerns, as has been done in the past by electrical manufacturer’s to address concerns of childhood leukemia being caused by electrical lines and when cell phones were thought to contribute to brain cancer. What is unknown at the moment is how strong this concern will be in the future and how successful this concern will be in influencing the development of wireless power transmission. …show more content…
This counter culture has sparked a cottage industry that routinely writes and publicize negative stories about these types of electrical areas, mainly emphasizing negative affects to human health and environmental impacts. In Europe, they have dubbed this concern as “electrophobia”. The mainstream media will often sensationalize stories from these cottage industry authors when attempting to find a counter view for story or deliver a story with sensationalistic value. The media has its own economic reasons for doing this as their financial lively hood is driven by ratings and as has been proven time and again sensationalism
You can't see or smell the electrical pollution, but you're feeling the effects. But because they've become so much a part of life -- and we've got such an active telecommunications industry -- we're just concerned about convenience. No one is connecting the dots and saying, "Wow, I've been tired and I can't sleep. I'm taking more anti-depressants." And it's really all about convenience. And I think we're too busy to pay attention, and it is an inconvenient truth. People just don't want to look at
We’re surrounded by technology and the problems created with technology, and science fiction isn’t important?” This quote shows that the problems generated by electronics are being ignored. These issues are growing larger and more hazardous. The Impending future will be disastrous if these flaws are not acknowledged soon! In other words, science fiction and dystopian authors warn readers about technology and its negative side effects.
James Madison constructed the Federalist Papers as propaganda in order to bolster support for the recently proposed federal government. These papers served as a way for the Federalists, those in favor of the ratification of the Constitution, to assuage the fears of the newly free ex-English subjects and to explain how relinquishing some of that newly gained freedom to a federal government would create a safer living environment. Federalist 10 specializes in how the proposed federal government could protect civilians from factions in ways state and local governments are unable to. On a small scale, such as a city in colonial times, a faction would need only few supporters in order to affect and enact change on government proceedings. Comparatively,
This pamphlet warned that AC power yielded “unsatisfactory results”(30), could only be “applied to a few practical uses” (30),and was a “form of real danger”(31). Further emphasising the danger inherent in AC power, Edison hired a man named Harold Brown to be his anti-AC spokesman. Brown would travel around and speak to audiences about the AC’s harmfulness, then provide a demonstration by electrocuting animals. Despite his success, Brown was not satisfied by the effect electrocuting animals had on the audience, he wanted to provide a demonstration that would have the public believe without a doubt that AC current was not to be touched. On August 6th, 1890 William Kemmler, a convicted ax-murderer, was electrocuted by a Westinghouse generator illegally purchased by Brown.
Even thought it’s the best wearable technology, it has some harmful effects too. All of the wireless devices produces EMF radiation to be able to transfer data which is very dangerous
When people hear the term “nuclear energy”, the first thing that jumps to their minds is most often “danger”. Who could blame the world for their intense fears of nuclear power, especially after reading the reports from Dr. Ira Helfand and the American writer, David Biello? Dr. Helfand’s article, “Radiation’s Risk to Public Health”, attacks the nuclear energy with facts and concerns like those of the National Research Council BEIR VI report. Whereas Dr. Helfand supports his claims with scientific evidence, David Biello only had a script from a discussion that followed the Fukushima crisis. David Biello’s article, “How Safe Are U.S. Nuclear Reactors? Lessons from Fukushima”, he uncovers secret concerns and future plans about the incredibly disastrous incident. Although David Biello used credible sources and attempted to appeal to ethos, logos, and pathos, Dr. Ira Helfand contains an authority in his education and knows a great deal more about nuclear power and definitely has the best representation of ethos, logos, and pathos.
In modern day society , students are on instagram instead of taking notes in class, office workers shop on ebay at work and parents take their iphones to the beach instead of the books they used to to read. Maggies Jackson , a writer for Boston Globe states electronics are less of annoyances , yet becoming more of a distraction leading to a new dark age. Jackson uses personal stories and tells of her extensive research in the article to make her readers believe in her credibility. These three rhetorical appeals combining with her alarmed tone creates an effective argument on electric distranticon.
The main claim of this article is that there will always be fear new technology and that it will damage society. An example from the article looks back at history to the invention of the radio and how people condemned it because of the harm it brought to children that listened to it, according to
"when it was reported that hordes of children died from cancer In 1979, resided more often in homes thought of being exposed to higher EMF than what healthy control children did"(4); cancer was associated with exposure to electromagnetic fields (EMF) for a long time. The risks were recorded as high as 2.2 for all cancers, 2.4 for brain cancer and 3.0 for leukemia.
All these stories talk about electrixty but yet they are all different in their own ways. we’re going to need something like this in the future if our atmosphere gets worse. These stories all have a natural way to create energy without fossil fuels, if somehow we could mass produce all these we wouldn’t even need light bulbs and this would save a lot of carbon from going into the atmosphere. Once the atmosphere problem worsens all these could easily come in to play people would start believing things like the light bulb is destroying the planet.
I am going to talk about the arguments about how cell phone radiation can affect our lives and whether these arguments are accurate or not. Cell phone radiation is a type of electromagnetic radiation that has the ability to cause health issues. The radiation from this device can cause serious brain tumours, according to one study by Anna Lahkola of the Radiation and Nuclear Safety Authority in Finland, which found that people who use their cell phone for more than 2000 hours have a higher chance of getting a brain tumour. The
We live in a digital age. It is a part of most people’s daily lives. We use our electronics to wake us up, and then inform us of our daily schedule, news, e-mail, stock portfolios, and various other information throughout our day on various devices, including phone calls. For most of us, this is a daily routine, as the generations before who listened to the town crier or local gossip for their news, or we progressed to reading newspapers or books, to gathering around the radio for information, on to watching television, and finally the computer. We now live in a world that is hyper plugged-in, so much so, that we carry our chargers with us anywhere we go for fear that our electronics will run out of power. So are we better off plugged-in
For ages, people have been debating the idea of human morality and whether or not at its core humanity is good or bad. This philosophy is explored in Cormac McCarthy’s novel, The Road. The road is the story of a man and boy living in a post-apocalyptic world. Some cataclysmic event has crippled Earth’s natural ecosystem, leaving the skies engulfed in ash and the ground devoid of much life. The duo aim to journey south as a way to escape being frozen to death in the oncoming winter. During their journey, the boy and man come across different people and places that give them a better understand of what humanity has become and where they stand on that spectrum. Throughout The Road, McCarthy revisits the idea of being the “good guy” when there is no longer a need to, “carrying the fire” as it’s detailed in the book. The dichotomy between the boy’s moral conscience and the man’s selfish ideals helps develop McCarthy’s idea of humanity losing its selflessness in the face of danger.
Job analysis is a broad term commonly used to describe a wide variety of systematic procedures for examining, documenting, and drawing inferences about work activities, worker attributes, and work context (Siddique, 2004). In light of recent workplace changes that devalue traditional conceptions of rigidly defined jobs, the broader term, work analysis, is sometimes supported. However, there are three different types of job analysis and they are job requirements, competency based, and rewards (Siddique, 2004).
radiation (the kind used in X-rays) is known to cause cancer at high doses, the risks of