At the point when Data leaves his commission instead of be destroyed for examination by a deficiently gifted researcher, a formal hearing is gathered to decide if Data is viewed as property without rights or is a conscious being. When Data’s rights as a sentient individual are placed under trial, Starfleet forces Riker into a position where he must prove that Data is only an Android. I trust that androids shouldn’t have any rights since they are not people and can be unusual and can overwhelm us humans.It is seen that Data is viewed as a property of the armada and can’t be surrendered on the grounds that he is a robot and not a human and doesn’t have any rights. An individual can be viewed as somebody that have the attributes of knowledge, mindfulness, and a blackout. What I have perused from the extract demonstrated to me that we indulging into the psyches of the youthful about racism through the web. The web has turned into a spot where there is no channel to anything. Likewise, it isn’t right that individuals influencing programs for web engines  have the right away to bolster into sexist and racist dispositions.The show begins with the team individuals playing a game of cards. Perusing outward appearance is critical to card games. I was reasoning what the scene was about from simply the title and assumed that it was tied in with testing what man can achieve. Prior to finishing the episode, I read the excerpt about algorithms in search engines, for example, google. I trust that one day the PCs will assume control over the world and convey humankind to termination. The information fellow creeps me out with his fake tone endeavoring to seem like somebody with no feelings in their voice. Artificial intelligence gains as a matter of fact not from books as indicated by what Data expressed I trust that they will never have genuine feelings like us living creatures.  

In the episode, “The Measure of a Man”, it is mainly about the conflict between the rights of a machine.  In this episode, there is a robot named Data. Data is a high intelligent robot who are very similar to a human.  Because of that, a commander wants Data to be his experimental tools. He wants to use Data as a tool to develop and recreate many robots who is just like Data. but Data will die because of that.  Then the captain of the star ship disagree with that because he consider Data as his crew, not a robot. After a debate, the captain win and finally Data will not be killed.

Even though in this episode, it implies that technology, such as robot has the right just like our human beings and not treating them well is like treating them as slaves, I don’t really think that is realistic in the real world.  First of all, machines are not slave, even though we use them. They don’t have a life, feelings, or anything that a normal human should have. Also, they are created by human beings to make their lives easier. People do not create them because they want to make more people or more lives.  Also, I don’t really think that humans will not treat their machines with violent since they are really expensive to get,(at least myself) but updating them is reasonable. No one wants to spend 100 hours just waiting for your computer to restart. Therefore, comparing them with slaves in the episode is not really appropriate. Lastly, it is not reasonable for machines to have their freedom and do everything they wish because even our humans have unequal rights and freedom.  People are discriminated against by each other based on their race, color or culture. If machines are granted rights, then what about those humans who do not? Does that mean they are even worse than the machine? Thus, I really think if we can’t even get our own rights, there’s no point of getting a machine’s right.

After reading the excerpt, Algorithms of Oppression, I feel really depressed.  I never notice that searching engine is one of the weapon that people use to attack other people. The discrimination online is much greater than what I thought.  I never know people use words like “sex” to bind them with black girls. I feel really bad about them.I think we are all humans and have identical genes,( other than skin color) why would people discriminate against them? I am one of the victim of discrimination too. When I just came to America, I got discriminated against by my classmates because I don’t speak English. I know how it feels, so I don’t want it to happen on anyone. Also, there are always sexism happening online.  I have seen many comments about that such as “ girls should stay home’ I just don’t understand it. A lot of girls are smarter than boys. Girls and boys are same other than biological structures. Without girl, life will be a lot difficult today. Therefore, please treat girls with care.

The Tiny Swiss Company That Thinks It Can Help Stop Climate Change

The New York Times published an article on Feb 12, 2019 on the same topic as above by Jon Gertner where it states that the two European entrepreneurs want to remove carbon from the air at prices cheap enough to matter. Over a period, many scientists around the globe have warned on this very concerning term ‘Climate Change’. It is a change in the statistical distribution of weather pattern, which remains for a longer period around decades of years, in a certain area. Affecting or gradually changing the pattern of life, flora and fauna of that area, and leading towards the destruction of Mother Nature. The reason behind this are some biotic processes, variation in the solar radiation received by earth, volcanic eruptions and one of the major causes is the human interruption or activities.

The research made by various scientists put a light on causes of climate change, in late 19^th century scientists started arguing that human emission of greenhouse gases can be the cause behind climate change, at that time many other theories were there like solar radiation and volcanic eruption. But in 1960’s research results started indicating that the heating effect of carbon dioxide is the major cause. In 1970’s scientific research widely accepted the heating effect of carbon dioxide, in 1990’s with the development of computer systems and other advanced techniques, it was confirmed that greenhouse gases like carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide etc., are the causes behind climate change. After industrial revolution there is 40% increase in these gases, these gases are also produced from automobiles and other sources.

Through this article, I came to know the fact that carbon dioxide (CO₂) can be removed from the air for commercial purposes which safeguards the future of humanity. They have built ‘direct air capture’ machines which collects CO₂  and once trapped it would be siphoned into large tanks and trucked to a local Coca-Cola bottler where it would become the fizz in a soft drink. The captured carbon dioxide from the air is also passed via pipeline to an enormous greenhouse nearby, where it was plumping up tomatoes, eggplants and so on which significantly is very ecofriendly. This process requires huge investment and energy, so they are trying to gain a commercial base to sell their CO₂ to agricultural or beverage companies. The company’s main goal for air capture isn’t to turn it into a product but to pull huge amount of CO₂ out of the atmosphere and bury it.

By these researches people are getting aware of the reasons behind the changing scenarios of climate change and can take measures to have a sustainable place to lead life in future, and conserve Mother Nature.

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Week 3 response

In Algorithms of Oppression, Safiya Umoja Noble point outs the idea that search engines like Google doesn’t offer an equal playing field for all forms of ideas, identities, and activities. Noble  doubts that some of the developers are willing to promote sexist and racist attitudes openly at work using some searching algorithms and architecture. One of the example i see on the reading shows that when you type “professor”, it mostly shows males but not females, it shows that data discrimination is a real social problem; Noble argues that the combination of private interests in promoting certain sites, along with the monopoly status of a relatively small number of Internet search engines, leads to a biased set of search algorithms that privilege whiteness and discriminate against people of color, specifically women of color.In my opinion, I think that people shouldn’t use colors or sexes to identify curtain people or groups, most of the searching sites show certain results not only because of the searching algorithms, it’s also because people are searching them too. People should start to accept others for what’s on the inside and not the outside. we the people need to understand that we are all equal no matter the race or genders.