Blog #7

The day started off with a lecture that made me think about restricting of new technology. It made me think of what I would do in the situation of having an amazing and helpful technology that could change lives, but may be dangerous. I think that I would allow the technology to be used ever with some dangerous as long as the benefits out way the potential harm. One example, talked about was aspirin. It is used by many people and helps to relieve pain, yet it has the potential to cause harm, has many side effects. I think that with future technology the government will tend to put to many restrictions on it making people afraid of the product when really the benefits will exceed the dangers.

The adventure in the Anechoic Chamber was really amazing. It was incredible to experience so much silence that you actually hear a loud buzzing like sound in your ears. The buzzing was caused by blood flow and the hairs within the inner ea. It was so black that after a time you would see shades of black going across your eyes in an almost flowing motion as if it were a gel. The speaker explained that this was caused by the blood flow in the eyes. The Anechoic Chamber is made of foam and wire. The floor is foam, yet you do not walk on it. Instead you walk on wire that is several feet above the foam. Then the walls were composed of foam that was not straight across the wall. The reason why the room makes you feel a certain way is because of the patterns the foam is arranged.