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Future Technology Requirements: Create a new page on your wikispaces, and name it Future Technology #2. Copy and past the information below to your new wikispace page and answer the questions. == Research and Analyze == Video 1: Click here for the Video Link The UK’s Channel 4 and the Discovery Channel have teamed up for a groundbreaking documentary on air safety, ironically crashing a Boeing 727 in the middle of a Mexican desert in the name of the cause.

List three pros about crashing the plane on purpose: 1. It can answer how we make plane crashes that are incidental, more safe. 2. It can give pilots experience in crash situations about how to handle the passengers and how to eject from his seat. 3. It can let passengers know that they won't have to worry if the plane crashes, they have already done crash tests so the worst possible outcome has already been dealt with. List three cons about this idea: 1. It will cost a lot of money. 2. It will take time to set up the crash course and also to make sure the plane is ready for a crash. 3. If we figure out new things about how safe planes have to be, we will have to enforce stricter regulations and there might not be as a high of a rate of manufacturing planes. List one pro from another group:  1. You can see what parts of the plane are most vulnerable. List one con from another group:  1. You can only use that plane once.

Link 2: Click here for article and here for video When you picture fighting off pirates in the open sea, you most likely get a Pirates of the Caribbean vision of cannons and sword play, but as Popular Science points out, commercial ships do not carry weapons leaving themselves with little defense. Two Japanese companies have devised a system they’re calling the Anti-Piracy Curtain, which makes use of the most abundant resource commercial ships have while at sea: water.

List three pros about the "super-soaker": 1. It will make it difficult for the pirates to pull up alongside a moving vessel. 2. When the pirates get alongside the opposing ship, the soakers make it difficult to deploy a ladder onto the ship and even harder to hop aboard. 3. It will make the pirates ship wet. List three cons: 1. It will take quite a bit of water to hold into the water soaker. 2. It would cost extra money to hold extra soakers that shoot massive amounts of water. 3. You would have to give extra training to the crew members so they know how to use the super soakers. List one pro from another group: 1. It can help save money and cargo on the ship from pirates. List one con from another group: 1. After one attack, all the water would have been dumped out, so the ship would be defenseless in another attack.

Video 3: Cellphone technology has already come a very long way. This technology has become a crucial part of our daily lives. Where is it headed in the future. Click here to get an idea of what might be to come.

List three pros about future cell phones: 1. They look very small and you're easily able to put them in your pocket. 2. Some of the phones are able to transform into other things like watches! 3. Some of the phones are able to demonstrate the weather and they can zoom in extremely far with their camera feature.

List three cons: 1. They will probably be really expensive when they come out. 2. They will replace other accessories like watches which could lead to industries losing jobs. 3. They could make people even more reluctant on their phones than they already are today and they can make people more lazy. List one pro from another group:  1. They look weightless. List one con from another group:  1. It might take awhile for the public to learn how to use the new technology.

Video 4: If you ever wished you had a new face but didn’t want to undergo invasive plastic surgery, there’s an easier way. As reported by New Scientist, an augmented reality mirror will change the way you look by subtly altering your features. Watch it work here.

List three pros about this camera: 1. Undercover missions will be a lot easier. 2. It can show people that they really can be more handsome or more beautiful. 3. It can increase a person's confidence. List three cons about this camera:

1. It can show your imperfectness and you may feel uglier than you really are. 2. You may develop insecurities because of the camera. 3. It's still in the manufacturing stage, so it may have some malfunctions here or there. List one pro from another group  1. Plastic Surgeons will know what the results will be and the patient can confirm or deny the surgery from there. List one con from another group: 1. You can pretend to be someone else which will be a problem for the people around who think you're someone different than who you really are.

Video 5: 50 new planets have been discovered, one could potentially support life. Learn more here.

List three pros about discovering new planets similar to earth:

1. Our Earth may one day become over populated so it's good to know we could have other options. 2. Discovering new planets have been a stepping stone for our space technology and this just gives us more hope that there could be other existing life. 3. When we discover new planets we learn a lot more about our universe and it propels us to learn even more about it. List three cons about discovering new planets similar to earth: 1. Whenever stories like this come out, some people get carried away and think we're going to live in another planet somewhere down the future. 2. Further research could lead to negative things like maybe we discover an alien-inhabited planet and the public finds out. 3. The demand for technology to do this research is growing at a rapid rate which means there needs to be more jobs and more money to use the technology and employ those jobs. List one pro from another group: 1. If worse case scenario occurs and Earth becomes no longer inhabitable, we may have a back-up plan. List one con from another group: 1. It costs a lot of money to use the telescopes and run the programs that are needed in order to do the projects.

== Evaluate == Choose one movie/link from above that you want to write about. Which one did you choose? Cell phone technology How will this technology impact our society and/or environment? It could impact our society and our environment by allowing us to do even more things with just a push of a button on our phones and could allow us to learn more. On the other hand, it could make people even more lazy than they have already become. Are you for the new technology or against is? Explain why. (3-4 sentences)  I'm definitely for the proposal of this new technology. I'm never against advancements in products, especially when they look as cool as the future cell phones did. The only reason I see it being negative is the costs for the phones because they have to be expensive as soon as they hit the market. I'm personally not worried about the lazy factor because I haven't turned lazy with my current phone.