Technology

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Owen McCleery MYP 5 Technology September 13 th 2010 Reflection September-13-10 8:08 PM I feel that the video was very inspirational and allowed me to gain a different perspective of  how I look at everyday objects and how he turned a simple chair into a ballet set. I find that the video was just open minded and just opened the audiences eyes to how imaginative one could be, with simple tools such as thin metal wire, which he could turn into a machine through curiosity. He created suspense in the audience, and spoke to everyone differently but to me he said that through the simplest pieces of utensils and curiosity or imagination you can create something to inspire your audience or just too simply fool around with for fun. This video can be shown too many varieties of communities or audiences, which can take this inspiration and transform it into something the community could use for improving their quality of life, in slums they may need a water purifier or soil fertilizer for food to be grown or to drink clean water. Maybe some of this inspiration and a little bit of a child or adult’s curiosity could affect and tackle the problems which many people face, in a large way. To me this short clip was the definition of technology, which is to design a piece of Machinery through raw materials/ manufactured materials to create something inspirational through curiosity to improve the quality of life through a certain region or nation. He built many little devices in order to inspire or develop imagination in his audience which could be transferred into something to extend the life span of a certain area or just simply improve the quality of life as I said before: there are many ways this video can be taken and applied to an individual’s life, through resources we take for granted. Many people are accustom to the idea of technology being computers, or radio and TV anything which could be defined as an electronic but anything mankind has created that is controlled by us to perform many different tasks would be a sort of technology. Like a glass cup is technology used to help up contain a liquid for drinking which improved our quality of life and I say that a lot but technology is anything used and created by mankind to improve or maintain a good quality of life. Mankind is constantly trying to outdo itself and create a more complex piece of equipment in tinier sizes to reduce space or increase speed, many of what we make isn’t necessarily useless but doesn’t carry out the function it was designed to do. And I feel this video proved that point of anything could be technology if designed through the mind and created physically through raw materials.