Week 0

5.1

Wii and iPhones have accelerometers
accelerometers are used in cars for airbags and lateral moving
also used in quadcopter
there are benefits and harmful effects of different technologies
ie:multirotor: benefit is that it can do deliveries and find missing people, it may be bad because of privacy issues
ie: Wii controller: benefit is that people can get moving when playing video games, it may be bad as people may break their tv doing this
innovation with things like 3d printers: alow many things to be made, such as prosthetics or models
Internet: does things with dopamine, can cause sleep deprivation, depression, other mental health effects, social medias
technologies not always used in the way they were intended to
microtransactions: game currencies, skins, loot boxes, etc., can cause wasting of money

Internet access is different for people in different economic, geographic, and age situations
digital divide is people having different amounts of access to computing technologies for people in different economic, geographic, and age situations
computers might not be in some poorer or rural parts of the world
the internet may also be controlled by the government
digital divide is issue of equality