Nicholas Carr's Chapter Summary

In chapter 8 “Speaking Smartly about the Salem Witchcrafts” thesis is Samuel Sewall 's family life during the crisis of the Salem witch trials. Samuel Sewall 's brother Stephen who was the director of the court throughout the trials, had fallen ill putting stress onto Sewall himself. In spite of this Sewall was facing issues in his home life. For example, Samuel had to give his son corporal punishment because Joseph had thrown a brass knob at his sister Betty causing her head to start bleeding. In addition, Joseph acted up again by throwing a tantrum, later he swallowed a bullet but later excreted it in the orchard.

The book I,Michael Bennet starts off in New York City with detcective Michael Bennett, who is planning to arrested one of the most noturios criminals Mannuel "the sun king" Perrine. He was a vicaious murderer, a billonaire drug dealer,and ran the Tepitpo drug cartel. Bennet is a NYPD detective which puts him lead officer in the case. They plan to catch perrine when he makes one of his few trips out if Mexico in to the Unites states. The arrest soon turns to a shoot out and Bennetts good friend Hughie is killed by perrines right hand woman marrieta.

Furthermore, people will be willingly giving up their privacy for these driverless cars. In the last article, the driverless car can recommend different items based upon preferences. It knows your preferences because the vehicle has combed through your emails, identified key words, and assessed related messages for emotional tone. The car heard the conversation, picked up on brand keywords, and knew to suggest the same beer for a shopping list when it went on sale. People are willingly giving up a significant element such as privacy just to enhance the momentum of technology.

Oliver Sacks, M.D. is a physician, a best-selling author, and a professor of neurology at the NYU School of Medicine. The New York Times has referred to him as “the poet laureate of medicine.” He is best known for his collections of neurological case histories, including The Man who Mistook his Wife for a Hat, Awakenings, Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain and An Anthropologist on Mars. Awakenings, his book about a group of patients who had survived the great encephalitis lethargica epidemic of the early twentieth century, inspired the 1990 Academy Award-nominated feature film starring Robert De Niro and Robbin Williams. •••Oliver Sacks is An Anthropologist on Mars construe stories of individuals with neurological disorders as paradoxical

Cars Cannot Think Like Humans Problems arise when new things come up, therefore, there are many problems people should face, especially on ethics. In the article “Should Your Driverless Car Hit a Pedestrian to Save Your Life”, the author, John Markoff provides many issues on autonomous cars for readers to consider, and the core of these issues is the ethical problem. If self-driving cars are designed to do best for the common good and protect people from unexpected accidents, how autonomous cars make appropriate moral decisions is hard for people to solve. A car cannot be an independent thinking machine, and it is hard for a car to make right moral decisions.

In Chapter twelve Professor lee will continue to follow kevin and Archie to hold Archie captive to get information out of archie to see if he is really Chu-mong or if he is Crazy. When Professor Lee caught up with Kevin and archie on their way to the university Professor Lee said, “Do you realize what an opportunity this would be? To interview him. To study him and observe him. To learn about ancient korea in a way never before experienced in history!

Close Reading Questions Bradbury sets up an atmosphere of loneliness and isolation in the opening paragraphs of the story by repeating the word alone. Throughout the opening he keeps bringing up the fact that Mr. Leonard Mead is alone because there are no other citizens walking around at night. Mead’s “brightly lit” house tells the reader that he is not a normal citizen in this society, and that he has lights on, unlike his neighbors whose only light is the TV screen. It also tells the reader that he is unique, and the reader later finds out that he is a writer who can develop thoughts and ideas. The evidence for this is when the narrator says at the end of the narrative, “...but this one particular house had all of its electric lights brightly lit, every window a loud yellow illumination, square and warm in the cool darkness.”

In Chapter 4, David Thomasa speaks about truth telling and how it becomes an important key factor in a clinical setting. “In each of the three main reasons why the truth must be told, as a right, an utility, and a kindness, lurk values that may from time to time become important than the truth.” (Vaughn 155,2017). By saying telling the truth is a right, he implies that it is a way of showing respect to another person. If the physician and patient experiences reversed roles, I would expect them to want the physician to be honest with them as well.

Millions and millions of jobs will be lost due to self driving vehicles pizza places businesses they will all use driverless vehicles they save more money in the long run. People losing jobs is not good because then I lose money and if they lose money how are they going to serve the mouse food in our house. This is proving my claim because self driving cars aren’t good. This is proving my claim because self driving cars aren’t good. James Hoffa states in an article “experienced drivers play huge role in safety of heavy vehicles and that shouldn’t change”.

An autonomous vehicle is a vehicle that is capable of operating on the roadways without human input. These vehicles have the ability to sense their environment and react accordingly [4]. With large strides being made in technology, there is much debate regarding if autonomous vehicles should be allowed. The proponents for autonomous vehicles argue that it will decrease the number of car crashes, and those against autonomous vehicles voice concerns about loss of jobs and that the car could be hacked. To establish an argument why autonomous vehicles should be allowed, the argument is presented as a list of premises and conclusions explained and outlined below.

You should read this book because it is funny and interesting it's about a boy named Greg Heffley and he goes through a lot of problems in life and finds ways to fix them. In cabin fever Greg gets in trouble for damaging school property when the authorities are about to go after greg a surprise blizzard hits and traps the heffley family indoors Greg knows when the snow melts he’s gonna be in trouble but he thinks getting in trouble would be better than getting stuck with his crazy family for the holidays If you go through similar problems or have siblings Greg's life could relate to yours in example of the book is when his brother turns the power off in everybody's room except for his and everybody else is cold besides Rodrick Gregs brother.

Also some employees of Google also used the Self Driving Vehicles for work and weekend trips. While working on these test trips test drivers are able to disengage the Self Driving Vehicle and take over control it needed. In 2015 “Firefly”, took the first fully self driving ride on public roads, Firefly had no steering wheel or pedals for assistance.

Communications of the ACM, 58(8), 19-20. This article talks about the moral challenge between driverless cars and drivable cars. The article introduces how driverless cars can out preform normal cars because, the driverless car will have greater perceptive abilities, better reaction times, and will not suffer from distractions (from eating or texting, drowsiness, or physical emergencies such as a driver having a heart attack or a stroke). Also the article states that 90% of crashes are due to human

Technology will evolve, as it is in its natural way to do so. Thus, in the car manufacturing area the purpose for the near future is to produce autonomous cars. People love the idea of making driving more enjoyable and comfortable, and less stressing by continuously keeping the steering wheel and pushing the pedals. Having such technology available is great, but everyone is thinking about comfort, enjoyment and pleasure of traveling by car. There are more sensitive matters that must be discussed regarding autonomous cars, and some of them are responsibility and ethics.

Living in a Driverless Future: Delightful or Dangerous? How interested would you be if somebody offered to hire you a chauffeur which could drive you anywhere, come back to pick you up, and be completely free to you? Odds are, you would be jumping all over it. However, robotic, not human, helpers may be the next great milestone in transportation. Tomorrow, maybe, completely autonomous cars will steer themselves across mountain ranges and through downtowns.