Futurology Essays

How does someone know if they are truly happy? Much of society have come to associate happiness with the pursuits of personal pleasures or that which makes us “feels good”. When we feel good we display positive expression of emotions such as joy, laughter, kindness and fewer negative emotions such as anger, hate, and sadness. To some people our happiness is already determined through our genes. Some people seek happiness through money and material possessions. However, many would argue that true

Marissa Meyer's Cinder is a prose fiction novel loosely based on the classic fairytale Cinderella. Cinder is set in a futuristic world filled with Robots, Cyborgs, and Lunars. Although published in 2011 Meyer's work is set to become a favorite of our time. Through first impressions, examining literary devices, and evaluation and review Cinder will prove itself to be a modern classic. When having first impressions its hard not to judge a book from its cover. In fact all one has to go on before reading

Introduction  There are many factors which shape health and safety at work and safety culture is one of them. The purpose of this paper is to explore that factors surround safety culture in an organization. Safety culture can be define as internal and external factors which may impact an organisation negatively or positively. Some of those impact can be influence by management commitment, communication, production service demand, competence and employee representative Hughes and Ferrett, (2009)

In today’s world and society, everything is extremely money-oriented. People have the tendency to put lots of value on tangible objects around them and fail to realize that some of the most important things are not something you can touch. The things that people tend to cherish more are treasures, or, things that carry sentimental value and cannot be sold; these are things such as love, friendship, health, family and more. Other times, people choose to put value on luxury items or things with a big

Activity#1: The Pros and Cons of Testing from Two Perspectives Standardized testing is advantageous in many ways. One of the most important benefits is that standardized testing holds teachers and schools responsible for teaching students what they should know, since the student’s achievements in these tests become public record and schools and teachers can come under scrutiny if the scores indicated that they aren’t up to the par. It also guides teachers and helps them determine what to teach and

In a futuristic world where cyborgs exist, cars can fly (called hovers), and people live on the moon (called Lunars), Linh Cinder resides. She is the main character of the enchanting book called Cinder, which was written by Marissa Meyer. Cinder is a cyborg who works as a mechanic in New Beijing, but she is still under the guardianship of her detached, adopted mother who forces Cinder to give all the money she earns to her. The adopted mother does this because she is too lackadaisical to actually

Abstract - Criminalisation is a social phenomenon, which has drastically increased in last few years. In order, to make the job of the investigating agencies easy, use of technology is important. Crime investigation analysis is a field where data mining plays a vital role in terms of predicting and analysing the criminals. In our paper, we have proposed an integrated model for physical crime as well as cybercrime investigation. Our approach makes use of data mining techniques for crime detection

“What is the point of being alive if you don’t at least try to do something remarkable? How very odd, to believe that God gave you life, and yet not think that life asks more of you than watching TV” (33). Within John Green’s novel An Abundance of Katherines, Colin Singleton, a 17 year old child prodigy, is dumped by the 19th Katherine he has dated. Feeling rejected, Colin goes on a spontaneous road trip accompanied by his best friend, Hassan, which lands them in Gunshot, an irrelevant town in rural

“Our Big Bet for the Future” was the 2015 annual letter written by Bill and Melinda Gates. In this letter, they describe the bet they made which was to better the lives of poor people at a faster rate than ever before. They plan on doing this by setting certain goals, or “breakthroughs” as they called them, which include eliminating certain diseases from the planet permanently and introducing “mobile banking” to people in Africa. These goals are certainly ambitious and progressive, but are they achievable

The Signal and the Noise Nate Silver, is a statistician who examines and writes on all sorts of predictions. He got famous due to successfully predicting the 2008 presidential election. Silver is also well known for his political blog and most importantly PECOTA, which is a private system that undertakes the player’s performance based on differentiation with past player seasons. His love for statistics is seen throughout his book where he analyzes data in different ways. We are able to see his work

The book Cinder by Marisa Meyer is about a cyborg nothing that could change the fate of her hometown, but she could destroy herself by doing so. This story is based off of cinderella, but don't let that fool you. Thought some parts, like an evil stepmother and ball, are similar most of the book does not relate to the blond-haired princess. When Cinder, a sixteen year old cyborg, meets up with the prince of (Hometown), she finds herself getting mixed up in a very tricky decision. Prince Kia must

The planning of the workforce for Murray Street is to predict the future demands which are as follows: Employment forecasting: This the most important factor in human resource planning, with the use of this technique the manager estimates the number of employees needed to accomplish organisational goals. It is an internal process which deals with the demand for products and services, analysing distribution channel, and budgeting (Putman, 2012). Demand forecasting: It is the assumption made by the

I have read one hundred thirty-seven pages of the novel The Raft by S.A. Bodeen. In this novel a girl, Robie, visits her aunt in Hawaii, and she is left alone to return home on a cargo plane. When the plane hits bad weather, it goes down. Robie is stuck in the middle of the ocean in a raft. As Robie and the only other survivor, Max, fight for their life, they run into a few complications. In this journal, I will be characterizing Robie and predicting outcomes for Robie and Starbuck, the seal. G:

To illustrate the concept of being stuck on a desolation world Mark Whatney describes it simply as “ I’m truly alone “ (Weir 75). Mark Whatney the heroic astronaut who was left for dead by his unsuspecting crew who believed he had indeed died. NASA has only recently figured out that he is still alive and has no way to contact him. In this journal there will be predicting on Mark Whatneys future, evaluating his current situation, and connecting him to other astronauts. Although Mark Whatney has

I have never met or read about any person that is remotely close to Ove. In the book A man called Ove, Ove is a man growing old and tired. His wife has died off and he lives in a development where he is getting new young neighbors. When they first move in they want to back in a trailer. The “Lanky one” as Ove refers to him, wants to do it himself, but obviously cant because it is getting closer and closer to Ove’s house. Ove then gets out there and does it himself. I am going to be evaluating, visualizing

Have you ever wondered what it would be like to be living your life in fear? Constantly being wanted, and living on the run and in fear only because you are a divergent? I have read the chapters 1-27 in the book Insurgent, in the beginning Tris and Tobias were on their way away from the city and away from the erudite, who were taking control. After they find out that the erudite are searching for them, they decide to take a train back to the center of the city and stay in the warehouse with a bunch

Yuval Levin’s essay ‘Imagining the Future’ is an essay that explores and debates the cultural, ethical, and political concerns that arise in modern society with the introduction of technology. In essence, it acts as a cautionary tale that reflects the potential adverse implications humanity faces with rapid breakthroughs in science and technology. As such, the central idea of this essay is to convince the audience that despite the multifaceted nature of our environment and the presence of our unconscious

themselves into different beings with abilities so greatly expanded from the natural condition as to merit the label of posthuman beings.[2] The contemporary meaning of the term "transhumanism" was foreshadowed by one of the first professors of futurology, FM-2030, who taught "new concepts of the human" at The New School in the 1960s, when he began to identify people who adopt

Introduction: There are many problems that are related to the modern age that the girls present it in the class. I choose four of these problems to talk about it in this paper and they are the modern slavery, human organ trafficking, famine, and revolution that linked to social media. In this paper I will explain the four separate problems. Then I will write why did I choose them and why they are threatening the modern world. Modern slavery One of that most important problem that the modern world