Vonnegut and Technology

"Bill Gates says, “Wait till you can see what your computer can become.” But it’s you who should be doing the becoming. What you can become is the miracle you were born to work—not the damn fool computer.”"

I agree with him even though I love my my computer. Until now, I thought it was computer and other machines which modernized this world. But sometime I wonder what will happen in the future if this pattern continue. If you watch some movies about robots in the future they are smarter than us and do every thing as we say. But I think this is wrong. As Kurt Vonnegut said it's us who should be doing the becoming, not the technology. In the story 'Harrison Bergeron' in the year 2081 every people have little mental handicap radio in their ear or they are too stupid enough to not recognize their own son. It was their damn technology which made them stupid monkeys who can't even recognize their own son. These technology sometimes also make me stupid monkey. I sometimes I think what if this computer do my all homeworks. In another Vonnegut's story 'The Euphio Question' These stupid people put the signal that make people happy on the radio to earn lot of money. They think those sound make people happy but actually these sound make people old, not only physically but also mentally. Now they become the creature who can't breath even a minute without those sound. Today, technology make many peoples' life easier but in other side they make people fat and they are dehumanizing us!

Feedback March 9-13 - End of Quarter 3 Feedback

My second goal was to improve my reading and writing. To be more specific I planned not to make spelling mistake and make sentence better. But I think my writing skill hadn't improved as much as my reading skill. I think this happened because of my grammar. I missed articles frequently and my sentences always confused reader by putting past, present tense in same situation. If I improve my grammar it will also help me writing a 'POP' research paper.

so my goal for this Quarter is,..... :
- to improve my grammar (Articles, punctuation, tenses)
- do research and get good data for my population project
- finish the population project before the due date. (work in process and finish it early)

Oxymoron and Holywar

An oxymoron is the phrase “Holy War” because as oxymoron has meaning of two words that don't belong being used together, in holy war there is always different kind of religions that don't being used together because each religion believe in different things and not try to follow each other. The only thing they do is to believe that their religion is real, important and better than others. But the problem is some religion believes that every people should follow their belief and force other people to believe it. This fight won’t end easily because they don’t just find with army, they also sometimes find facts or evidences that would support their ideas; and still there are a lot of facts and evidences that exist in Earth.

WWIII is a possibilty

I think WW 3 is possible to happen in our life time. Even after the world war 1, no one expected that Germany would start the war again. Also today nobody is expecting WW3 would happen but I think it's possible to happen. Even though United nation (UN) has stronger power than before (League of the nation) If huge war starts, they will loose their power and they might not be able to stop the war as soon as people hope.
I think war will happen in Israel, war is still happening in Israel, Gaza because after the Holocaust many Jewish people had to find their new shelter and they found the land which is now called 'Israel' but there were already many people who lived in that land so today they are still fighting with each other to get their own land. Right now, not many countries are involved with this war, but if one of the side asking for help to other country and if this situation keep goes on and on, it will lead to the WW3. During WW3, with the modern technology, many people will die. This war will give huge number of victims even much more than world war 2. And many countries will regret about what they've done.

Holocoast reflection

During the discussions, l found that discussion1 was the most meaningful. Because during the holocaust, Anne Frank's nationality forced to removed. Actually her nationality should be Germany because she has born in Germany and her both parents born in Germany. But during the holocaust, when Hitler started to kill Jewish, he abandoned many Jewish people. I felt sorry for Anne Frank because government of country suppose to protect their citizen from their country, but in this case, government take their citizen's right and force to remove their nationality.

A letter from the Battlefront

Dec 20, 1941
To Mr. Hubert Willis
26, Rodfort Street
Bryan
Texas
Dear Mom, Dad Leslie and Barney,
I know you are all very worried about the ‘attack’ which happened in the early hours of the morning on December 7 at Pearl Harbor. I am writing to ensure you that I am fine. Although I was injured, I am recovering well. I am going to first tell you about it, before I talk about myself.
It was a Sunday morning I had woken up at 6 AM and dressed quickly in my shorts and shirts. I had promised Frank my commanding officer to be his partner at a doubles game of tennis. We played well and then decided to have breakfast in the Canteen. I had just ordered a large omelet with bacon, when Frank pointed in the sky, where a fleet of planes flying toward us. First time, I thought they were the ‘B-17’s from the West Coast. I wondered what they were doing up there. But suddenly I noticed something was wrong with those planes. I took the binoculars from Frank, and magnified to the size of planes. They were not the ‘B-17’s Instead of American flags, they had flags which were red with white stripes. Before I could tell Frank something was going wrong, those foreign planes started to drop bombs. Suddenly, Frank shouted “I think it’s the Japs! Run for shelter!” In a few seconds, our camp was filled with chaos. I ran, trying to reach my plane. But even before I reached my plane, I saw 51 ‘Val’ dive bombers dropped 30feet away from me. I stepped backwards, tried to run on other side. Then I heard a ‘BANG’ sound. Because of the huge explosion, I flew in the air. I was bleeding, especially my legs were horrible. I lay in the ditch for almost three hours. Many times I shouted for help, but my voice was drowned by the sounds of explosions near by. Finally I gave up hope and closed my eyes to pray. I saw two nurses looking down at me, when I opened eyes. I was brought to ‘Hickam Field’. I had surgery on my back and legs. The doctors told me I was lucky to be alive because I had lost a lot of blood but the chief Nurse Annie G. Fox donated her blood for my surgery. It’s almost three weeks since I have been in this hospital. I am surrounded by many wounded patients who are also recovering because of the hard work and time given by the nurse and doctors.
I am angry and upset about loss of lives and destruction caused to our army. Fortunately, our aircraft carriers, Lexington, Enterprise and Saratoga were not damaged because, they were not in port at the time of attack. The doctors, are going to release me tomorrow as they feel, I am fine. So, I will be attending the church service in memory of the service men and civilians who died for our country. I am very proud of Frank who died while helping people in the canteen to find shelter. On 17 Dec, we got a new Admiral Chester W. Nimitz. My leave starts from today, so I hope to be in time for Christmas.

Your loving
‘Walter’

P.S.: How is my dog Larry? I haven’t seen her for a year. Tell her that I love her. Also mom, please post a small gift and a letter of thanks to chief nurse Annie G. Fox

From Walter Willis
US Army
Oahu, Hawaii
Hickam Field

A recipe for World War II

1 small tea spoon of ‘Treaty of Versailles’

scattered on the dough, ‘Failure of the Leagues of Nations.

Because ‘Failure of the League of Nations’ never have flavor, which won’t make me and your mouth pleasant

You would need to add some aggressive spice

Aggressive spice that ‘made in Germany’
Aggressive spice that ‘made in Japan’

Three drops of ‘Fascism’ wine.
They will blur the dough as soon as they touch it and spread their spirit, color is like blood.