Wednesday, November 17, 2010

HW#9 additional

Q1) We discussed in class how there is no such thing as a "scientific proof." Explain in your own words.

Scientific Proof and Unscientific proof both have faith in future, but they explanation method is very different, for example unscientific proofs are explained or driven by the supernatural force. through out the history, people have asked searching question: How can we deal with the
forces of nature? How can we treat illnesses? How can we organize our government
and societies? HOw should we lead our lives? They usually turned to respected and gifted
individuals for answers. Modern Science is essentially a product of the peropd of enlightenment
followed the dark ages and middle ages, before the fifteenth century, there was a gradual transition
from unscientific to the scientific, and early scientific and early scientist dabbled in both.



For example, the great Isaac Newton, whose work and the magical apple, provides the cornestone
of our modern science, Astronomy, Physics, jet that can fly out of planet earth.


Charles Darwin was looking for soul, and his work has helped millions of scientific field, invention of DNA, revolution of species etc.

Science has been explaining how things work, where it possibly came from, from these reasoning and questing, and creating model which possibly tell us what might happen in the future. Scientific proof requires logical, rational way of thinking and explanation.

Unscientific proof can include unexplainable things, things can not be explained by rational and logical way of thinking. Some say it is beyond the logical and rational way of thinking, but some say it's opposite.

Scientific and Unscientific predictions have one purpose, to tell the future, if it's not correct, or exact on time, both can be turn to be false proof.

Q2)  I will send you PowerPoint slides.


Q3)Q3) This course has been designated as able to help keep our curriculum accredited! Therefore we need to ask students to answer certain questions. This week's question is:

Assess the impact of information and/or computing on individuals (rather than, say, organizations). Assess this impact on the following dimensions:

  • a) privacy
  • b) security
  • c) quality
  • d) some other one of your choice
(In case you were wondering, next week's HW will extend your answer to other technologies and to the future. But that's not for this HW.)

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