TOPIC 2- SCIENCE AND TECH

• Dilemma - difficulties or challenges
• Technology - from the Greek words "techne and logos", which means art and word.
• Technology (Buchanan, 2010 ) - means a discourse on arts.
• Technology - is already an inevitable part of the society.
• Television - product of different experiments by various people.
• Paul Gottlieb Nipkow - German student, in the late 1880s was successful in his attempt to send images through wires with aid of a rotating metal disk.
• Electric telescope - had 18 lines of resolution.
• In 1907, two inventors Alan Archibald Campbell-Swinton who was an English scientist and Boris Rosing who was a Russian scientist, created a new system of television by using the cathode ray tube in addition to mechanical scanner system.
• This success story gave rise to two types of television systems, namely mechanical and electronic television.
• Filipinos - love to use their mobile phones anywhere, anytime.
• More than half of the Filipino population own at least one mobile phone regardless of type.
• Mobile Phones - have very interesting background story.
• Martin Cooper - April 3, 1973, a senior engineer at Motorola made the world's first mobile phone call.
• Martin Cooper - called their rival telecommunications company and properly informed them that he was making the call from a mobile phone.
• Mobile Phone - used by Cooper weighed 1.1kilograms and measured 228.6x127x44.4mm. Capable of a 30 minute talk time. However, it took 10 hours to charge.
• Motorola - In 1983, made their first commercial mobile phone available to the public. It was known as the Motorola DynaTAC 8000X.
• Computers and Laptops - It was Charles Babbage, a nineteenth-century English Mathematics professor, who designed the Analytical Engine which was used as basic framework of the computers even until the present time.
• Computers - can be classified in three generations. Each generation of the computer was used for a certain period of time and each gave people a new and improved version of the previous one.
• Osborne 1 - first true portable computer and was released on April 1981.
• Mobile phone subscription in the Philippines is at 19 million.
• Filipinos - spend approximately 3.2 hours on mobile and 5.2 hours on desktop daily.
• Philippines - one of the highest digital populations in the world.
• There are now 47 million active Facebook accounts in the Philippines.
• Philippines - fastest-growing application market in the Southeast Asia.
• Television - mainly used as a platform for advertisements and information dissemination. Remains to be the most used avenue by different advertising companies not in only in the Philippines but also all over the world.
• Various advertising companies - trust that television is still one of the most used technological devices up until today.
• Television -also serves as a recreational and good stress reliever to most families, specifically to Filipino families.
• Television - a good platform for different propagandas and advocacies. Can also be a good way to bond with one's family members.
• Mobile phones - also have their own role sin the lives of the people. Primarily used for communication.
• Mobile Phones - offer services like texting and calling. Include music player, calendar, radio, television, and photo editor.
• Personal computers and laptops - have useful set of functions and roles. Can be used to surf the internet and communicate. Also have features like calendar, calculator, music player, movie player, camera and many more.
• Personal Computers - have wide screens and separate keyboards, although some mobile phone can now be connected to a keyboard.
• Robots - are now widely used.
• Service Robots - do specific task but focus mainly in assisting their masters in their everyday task.
• International Federation of Robotics ( IFR ) and United Nations Economic Commission for Europe ( UNECE ) - made it their task to formulate a working definition for service robots.
• Robot - an actuated mechanism programmable in two or more axes with a degree of autonomy, moving within its environment, to perform intended task.
• Autonomy - means the ability to perform intended task based on current state and sensing without human intervention.
• Service Robot - a robot that performs useful tasks for humans or equipment excluding industrial automation application.
• A personal service robot or a service robot for personal use - a service robot is used for noncommercial task, usually by laypersons.
• A professional service robot or a service robot for professional use - a service robot used for commercial task, usually operated by a properly trained operator.