Friday, November 30, 2007

A Brave New Audience

Over time, technology has become extremely developed. This is unpleasant for mankind because the more superior, the more serious television gets, the not as good as it is for its viewers. It always feeds people in sequence with which they take in without even important its perils. What they think is an admirable source of information, is actually a dangerous medium through which millions of Americans decrease their intelligence.

According to Neil Postman, it is basically just a damage of content because it focuses more on descriptions, rather than content. In Postman's essay, The Huxleyan Warning, he exhorts readers that Huxley's prophecy is launch to be realized. He claims that society will enslave themselves through their love for their own oppression; the technologies that disable their ability to think. This technology comes during the shape of a television screen. These prophecies, which were first introduce to us by Aldous Huxley, are observable in the movie The Truman Show. Truman is a normal human being, inadvertently being watched by billions of viewers ever since his birth. Viewers are caught to their television sets watching his every move.

Sunday, November 11, 2007

The Geography Portal

Geography from the Greek words Gee or Gaea, both denotes Earth and graphic meaning to describe or to write or to map is the study of the Earth's features and the allocation of its resources and life, including humanity and the effects of human activity. A literal changes would be to describe the Earth. The four traditions of geography pressure the spatial analysis of natural and human phenomena geography as a study of distribution, on area studies places and regions, on man-land relationships, and earth science study of the earth, its waters, and the atmosphere. Nonetheless, modern geography is an all-encompassing discipline that foremost seeks to understand the world and all of its human and natural complexity not merely where things are, but how they have changed and come to be. It says about the mother of all sciences and the synthesizer of knowledge. As the bridge between the human and physical sciences, geography is divided into two main branches, human geography and physical geography.

Sunday, November 04, 2007

Human-powered transport

Human-powered transport is transport of person(s) and or goods motorized by human muscle.Like animal-powered transport, human-powered transport has been in continuation since time immemorial in the form of walking, running and swimming. However modern technology has led to machines to improve human-power. Although motorization has compact the effort in transport, many human-powered machines stay popular for leisure or exercise and for short distance travel. Human-powered transport is frequently the only (reliable) power source available in underdeveloped or inaccessible regions, and may be measured an ideal form of sustainable transportation.