Emerging Technology Part 1

Ultra-Efficient Solar
Last winter, a record was set for solar energy by a startup called Semprius. Semprius has little glass lenses which takes up light and converts 34 percent of the light into electricity. It's said that Semprius is so efficient it could soon make electricity cheaply enough to compete with power plants fueled by coal and natural gas. The system works best when the cells receive direct sunlight under a cloudless sky, and energy production drops significantly under any other conditions. Even so, it could be suitable for large, utility-scale projects. Semprius has to begin mass-producing its panels before mass production. The company has raised about $44 million from venture capital firms and Siemens already but plans this to open a small factory in North Carolina this year that can make enough solar panels to deliver six megawatts of electricity. The hopes are to expand that to 30 megawatts by the end of 2013, but a large unknown amount of money needs to be raised.
Technology is definitely getting a lot more advanced, and one main subject that most scientist seem to concentrate on, is that of the prices of technology. Not just that but of electricity. They are finding more and more ways of getting easier electricity, which will be cheaper for everyone using it. It surprises me how much electricity these panels are creating and it's all just from light, so we don't even have to do anything. Our future will definitely be more efficient and complicated. Everything will have a use by technology and it will probably be all that people even do.
In 2009 there was technology considered to be emerging, but now we are so familiar with them and use them all the time. Some of these things include what we use on the computer. Like using software as a personal aid, ultradense memory chips, and liquid batteries that allow cities to run on solar power at night.

Reflection

Technology is important in this world for many reasons. We are able to use it as a GPS, look up information, and even communicate with other people. Over the past 5 years, technology has changed by modernizing itself and people make more things possible and do-able with them. We have a faster way of doing things. Over the next 5 years it will become less complicated and easier to use. It will have more things able to be done on it. I use technology a lot in my life, not only for home entertainment but for school too. I use the Internet a lot by looking up information, asking questions, and even typing an essay. For my entertainment, I go on my iPhone and Snapchat people, go on Facebook or Instagram, or just play some games. From Online A I learned a lot about new websites and how to use them. The one thing I will probably use the most would be the flashcards. I will use it to study for other classes to print off. This is also one of the most practical things to use because it can be used for any age it's easier, and even more fun, to study with flashcards than anything else. The one thing I know I will definitely never use again would be Audacity. I hate having to record my voice and I don't like listening to it either. My favorite thing to do was the presentation about countries because the country I had, Australia, is my favorite and I loved getting to spend my time learning more and more about the country. My least favorite was anything that had to do with recording my voice because not only was it embarrassing, but every time I had to record I happened to be sick.

Flash Cards

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Netiquette

Netiquette is Network plus Etiquette and that gives you Netiquette. The Network is Cyberspace, the internet, and being online. Etiquette is the proper way to behave, or forms required in social or official life. This together gives you netequette. A set of rules for behaving properly online. Netiquette affects everyone on the internet,all online users. Some good netiquettes are knowing what your writing about and using proper grammer, and don't take advantage of someone if you know more information than them. Some examples of poor netiquettes are reading through people's emails and not respecting their privacy.

Microsoft to Google: Play fair with Youtube

In this article Microsoft is claiming Google is distributing YouTube data to its mobile competitors unequally. Google is refusing to give up YouTube's "metadata," which includes video categories, favorites and ratings, for Microsoft's Windows Phone operating system Microsoft says.  A source says that it doesn't make sense for Google to write apps for every mobile operating system. Windows Phone also isn't popular enough to compete with Google. to develop and support a separate app for Microsoft phones. Windows Phone made up less than 3% of the smartphones around the world. Dave Heiner, Microsoft's deputy general counsel, Google is playing favorites with Apple, "which doesn't offer a competing search service."


 http://money.cnn.com/2013/01/03/technology/microsoft-google-youtube/index.html