If I could spend a day with one person…. Human being is the God’s creature which is created with intelligence‚ emotion‚ and passion. In human’s life‚ there will always be something or even many things that is wanted or repented. Therefore‚ human often wishes to meet someone whom he really yearns‚ someone who can correct his repented mistakes or someone who can meet his needs. If I could spend a day with one person‚ I wish it will be Doraemon. Doraemon is an imaginative character made by a Japanese
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Man Man and the Machine “Man‚ “Man‚ biologically considered… … is the most formidable of all the beasts of pray‚ and indeed‚ the only one that preys systematically on its own species” William William James (Memories and Studies) From the aeon of the history‚ we have perceived that man has been developing at jet speed in the fields of science and technology. Man‚ who once lived in the forest‚ in the natural state‚ is now on the cliff of mechanical advancement. The question arises today
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History of the Sewing Machine Before the sewing machine appeared‚ making clothes was the main occupation of half of the human race. For over 20‚000 years‚ countless hours were spent on making garments and other textiles to fulfill daily needs. The first sewing needles were made of bones and animal horns and the first thread was made of animal sinew (inventors.about.com‚ 4/16/06). The sewing machine‚ however‚ was a remarkable invention that was beneficial to all populations. More critical
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claimed that Lem was the most widely read science-fiction writer in the world. His works explore philosophical themes; speculation on technology‚ the nature of intelligence‚ the impossibility of mutual communication and understanding‚ despair about human limitations and humankind’s place in the universe. They are sometimes presented as fiction‚ but others are in the form of essays or philosophical books. Translations of his works are difficult and multiple translated versions of his works exist.
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“Darwin among the Machines‚” 46 years before Forster (whose story‚ “The Machine Stops‚” was published 107 years ago). It is hard to believe that two stories with a similar tone could have been written so long ago. What is even more incredible is that they both seem to relate to present day society. How could two people (both from a time when technology was in its infancy) could write stories that could have been written about our time or even in our near future? The concept that machines will surpass
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mutual communication and understanding‚ despair about human limitations and mankind’s place in the universe. They are sometimes presented as fiction‚ but others are in the form of essays or philosophical books. Translations of his works are difficult due to passages with elaborate word formation‚ alien or robotic poetry‚ and puns. Multiple translated versions of his works exist. Stanislaw Lem’s “Trurl’s Machine” is the story an inventor who makes an eight-story thinking machine with a major flaw. The story is
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age of machine. Machine has acquired a high priority in the modern era. It has come to occupy a place of major importance in the life of man. In all spheres and walks of life machine comes to the aid of man. Right from the time of waking up in the morning till going to bed at night‚ man continues to make use of some machine or the other. In short‚ machine has come to stay as an indispensable instrument of considerable assistance to man at every step. Countless are the uses which machine has conferred
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Title: Trurl’s Machine Author: Stanislaw Lem As a boy Stanislaw Lem showed an early interest in science as well as in the imaginary worlds of fantasy and science fiction. The young Lem’s interest in tinkering mechanical devices of all sorts was put to use by secretly damaging the German vehicles during the Nazi occupation. Later on‚ he became a full time writer establishing himself as leading science fiction writer in Eastern Europe. This writer from Lvov Poland (now Ukraine) worked on serious
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According to Election Data Services the percentage of electronic voting machines per county doubled between 1998 and 2002 to 16 percent-‚ yet a full replacement of the traditional voting procedure is very unlikely. In its essence‚ an electronic voting machine is a computer assisted self-interviewing device (CASI) giving the voter the opportunity to review and change his/her vote before submitting it. The different types of voting machines allow for different kinds of interaction‚ such as using a touch
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of ship work. They only had one day off every 13 days. These workers were in a high dudgeon when they were treated like slave machine satisfying their greedy owners. Nine Chinese sociologists wrote a letter calling for an end to the work practice‚ which they commented as "a model where fundamental human dignity is sacrificed for development" (Apple Factory). The Time Machine novel is written by H. G. Wells reflecting exactly this social issue that we are facing: it is the exploitation from the upper
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