Impact of Technology on

Society
N ATA S H A L I N D S E Y
CELL PHONES, ECOMMERCE

Z H E TA O G U O
SOCIAL MEDIA, EREADER

MIKE MOORE
N A N O T E C H N O L O G Y, C L O N I N G

Cell Phones

Cell phones create a society that is

Informative
Connected
Culturally innovative
Participative
Converging

How is cell phone used?

Activity

2010

2009

Increase

Take
Pictures

76%

66%

10%

Text
Message

72%

65%

07%

Internet

38%

25%

13%

Games

34%

27%

07%

E-Mail

34%

25%

09%

Record
Video

34%

19%

15%

Play
Music

33%

21%

09%

Source: Mobile Access 2010 http://www.pewinternet.com/Reports/2010/Mobile-Access-2010.aspx

Classifying your Cell

Phone

Luxury

85% of all Americans

carry a cell phone
(4 out of 5)

Or

Necessity

Source: http://www.pewinternet.org/Reports/2010/Cell-Phonesand-American-Adults/Part-1-Adults-and-cell-phones-Ownershipand-use/Cell-ownership-in-the-United-States-remains-steadysince-2009.aspx

Safety & Security Issues

70% of all 911 calls now come from mobile
phones.
Source: http://www.arlnow.com/2010/11/23/officials-to-demonstrate-911-texting-technology/

74% of Americans who own a mobile phone

have used it in an emergency for assistance.
Source: Pew Internet & American Life Project, April 2006

Connectivity
4,239,956 people are having a phone

conversation during this second.

Citizens of the US make less than 1%

(34,722) of these calls.

200,000 text messages are sent

worldwide each second.

2.5 billion text per day by US citizens.
Source: Mobile Access 2010 by Aaron Smith
http://www.pewinternet.com/Reports/2010/Mobile-Access-2010.aspx

Environmental Issues
Only about 10 percent of the cell phones used in the United States are recycled.

Recycling just one cell phone saves enough energy to power a laptop for 44
hours.

130 million cell phones are tossed aside annually in the United States this is
enough energy to power more than 24,000 homes for a year.

Recycling one million cell phones also saves enough energy to provide electricity
to 185 U.S. households for a year.

Cell phones, PDAs and other electronic devices also contain hazardous
materials such as lead, mercury, cadmium, arsenic and brominated flame
retardants. Many of those materials can be recycled and reused; none of them
should go into landfills where they can contaminate air, soil and groundwater.

Source: http://environment.about.com/od/mobilephones/a/why_recycle_cell_phones.htm

E-Commerce

E-Commerce
Online retail sales account for 11 percent of total sales in the United States
and 7 percent of worldwide spending. US sales are expected to top $156
billion this year, excluding revenues associated with traveling.
More consumer dollars are spent online because of comparison shopping
and convenience.

Source: http://www.hotelmarketing.com/index.php/article/forrester_online_sales_to_continue_growth_in_2009 /

E-Commerce
The Nielsen Company Reports

85% of the worlds online population has used the Internet to

make a purchase (40% increase)

More than half of Internet users are regular online shoppers,

making online purchases at least once a month.

94% of US Citizens have purchased online at least once, with

an additional

54 percent purchasing items online within the last month

Source: http://th.nielsen.com/site/documents/GlobalOnlineShoppingReportFeb08.pdf

E-Commerce
Convenience
Removes Barriers
Lowers Costs
Informed Consumers
Higher Degree of Specialization
Mobility of Employment
Source: http://www.ecommerceeducation.com/benefits-of-ecommerce.asp

E-Commerce
Brick & Mortar Losses

Privacy Concerns
Fraud
Identity Theft
Legal Aspects

Crime
The Internet Crime Center Statistics
(From 2009 for 79 offense-based categories)

336,655 complaint submissions (922.3 complaints per

day)

44% were referred to local, state, and federal law

enforcement agencies

The total dollar loss from all referred cases was $559.7
million with a median dollar loss of $575

Source: http://www.ic3.gov/media/annualreport/2009_ic3report.pdf

Shopaholics

A Psychiatric Times survey conducted in December, 2006

revealed that almost 6% of Americans have shopping
addictions (Oniomania).

Both genders are affected equally (5.5% men and 6% women

respectively).

College-aged consumers spend 12% of their total income

online, and those purchases are concentrated in categories
(clothes, music, and books).

Source: http://jcmc.indiana.edu/vol6/issue3/larose.html

Social Media

Social Media

Social media are media for social interaction, using

highly accessible and scalable publishing techniques.
Social media uses web-based technologies to turn
communication into interactive dialogues.
Resource: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_media

Social Media Revolution

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lFZ0z5FmNg&feature=related

Change your lifestyle

even

your job.

You get lots of followers

Are you suffering from social networking?

Much of the night
networking on a
computer might be bad
for your body and your
brain.

Social
Networking

The greater use of

the internet

declines in
communication
between family
members in the
house

declines
in the
size of
their
social
circle

increase in
their levels
of
depression
and
loneliness

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37OLJPjoews&feature=related

Social
Networking

The time we spend socializing electronically

separates us from our physical networks.
There's a wide world out there with no Twitter,
Facebook, MySpace and email even.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hcc85yBqOZ
0

E-reader

Saving Space
You can have hundreds of books in a device smaller
than a moleskin journal.

Saving green (money)

Costs of e-books are much cheaper than
buying the hardcovers or paperbacks off the
bookstore shelves.

Less gas
Downloading an e-book takes just seconds and
requires no transportation.
It requires no use of gas.

Carbon Emission
E-readers take a certain amount of carbon
emission to produce.
Truth: E-books are having effectively no
positive impact on the environment. If
publishers continue to produce large numbers
of books, e-readers will prove useless to the
environment.

Will e-books replace ink and paper?

Nanotechnology

What is Nanotechnology?
Nanotechnology is the science of building structures at a subatomic level.
The prefix nano refers to the scale of these constructions. A nanometer is
one-billionth of a meter. To put that scale in context, the comparative size
of a nanometer to a meter is the same as that of a marble to the size of
the earth!

How small is a nanometer?

Flea
Hair
Red Blood Cells
Bacteria
Virus
DNA
Molecule
Nano Structure

History of Nanotechnology
In 1959, Richard Feynman became the first individual to give a lecture about
the concepts involved in nanotechnology. He gave the talk at the American
Physical Society at Caltech.
The first experimental proof that individual atoms could be manipulated was
obtained by IBM scientists back in 1989, when they used a scanning tunneling
microscope to precisely position 35 xenon atoms on a nickel surface to spell
out the corporate logo "IBM."

Some Benefits of Nanotechnology

Nanomedicine
Cheap and clean energy

Clean Water
Pollution Reduction and Environmental Progress
Improved Materials and New Products

Nanomedicine
Nanomedicine is focused on diagnosing and treating diseases and creating
new drug delivery techniques with fewer side effects. Some examples of
nanomedicine are...
Detection - Nanotech-enabled sensors may be able to smell cancer.
Imaging - Gold nanoparticles can be used to detect disease.
Regeneration - Nanogels can spur the regrowth of brain and nerve cells.

Cheap and Clean Energy

The difficulty of meeting the worlds energy demand is compounded by the growing
need to protect our environment. Many scientists are looking into way to develop
clean, affordable and renewable energy sources.
Solar panels
Batteries
Fuel cells for alternative transportation

Clean Water
Clean water is a precious natural resource and a basic necessity. While the
worldwide supply of potable water is limited, the demand continues to
increase. Nanotechnology could help meet the need for affordable clean
water through inexpensive water purification, as well as rapid, low cost
detection of impurities.

Pollution Reduction and Environmental

Progress
There are many eco-friendly possibilities for nanotechnology, including

Lighter cars and machinery that requires less fuel

Alternative fuel and energy sources
Materials that detect and clean up environmental contaminants

Improved Materials and New Products

The very structure of materials can be improved through nanotechnology, by
developing nanomaterials that are stronger, lighter, more durable or better
conductors, among other traits.
Adding nanoparticles to plastics can make them stronger, lighter and more

durable. Nanoparticles are currently used in baseball bats and tennis

rackets, but someday may also be used in bulletproof vests and light, fuel
efficient vehicles.
Different nanoscale materials can be used in thin films to make them water-

repellent, anti-reflective, self-cleaning, ultraviolet or infrared-resistant,

antifog, anti-microbial, scratch-resistant, or electrically conductive.
Nanofilms are used now on eyeglasses, computer displays, and cameras to

protect or treat the surfaces. Nanoscale transistors may someday lead to

computers that are faster, more powerful and more energy efficient than
those used today.

Some Risks of Nanotechnology

Nanotoxicology

Nano Pollution

Nanotoxicology
The extremely small size of nanomaterials also means that they are
much more readily taken up by the human body than larger sized
particles. How these nanoparticles behave inside the body is one of the
issues that needs to be resolved. The behavior of nanoparticles is a
function of their size, shape and surface reactivity with the surrounding
tissue.

Nanopollution
Nanopollution is a generic name for all waste generated by
nanodevices or during the nanomaterials manufacturing
process. This kind of waste may be very dangerous
because of its size. It can float in the air and might easily
penetrate animal and plant cells causing unknown effects.
Most human made nanoparticles do not appear in nature,
so living organisms may not have appropriate means to
deal with nonwaste. It is probably one great challenge to
nanotechnology: how to deal with its nanopollutants and
nanowaste.

Cloning

Cloning

In biological terms, cloning is the process of

creating an organism (plant or animal) that is
an exact genetic copy of another through
nonsexual means.

Cloning
Before your thoughts about cloning begin to turn negative, think
about this nature has been cloning organisms for billions of
years!
For example, when a strawberry plant sends out a runner (a
form of modified stem called a stolon), a new plant grows where
the runner takes root. That new plant is a clone! Similar cloning
occurs in grass, potatoes and onions.

Cloning
Perhaps the most well known example of cloning is Dolly, a
sheep from Scotland that became the first cloned mammal in
1996. Dolly was the only sheep out of 277 attempts that made
it to a live birth. She gave birth to four lambs before she
passed away in 2003.

Cloning
Although a handful of people across the world have
announced that they have cloned a baby, no one has ever
produced any conclusive proof that a cloned baby exists.

Oh My! Ive been cloned!

Some Benefits of Cloning

More predictable and reliable crop yields, meaning more

food for more people.

Disease and pesticide resistant plants.
Significantly lower growing costs.
Production of "super" fruits and vegetables of superior

nutritional quality could result in decreases in nutritional

deficiencies around the world and make for a healthier
population overall.

Some Benefits of Cloning

Genetically modified cells and organs from animals can be

transplanted into humans to treat disease and injury.

Many human diseases such as Parkinson's, Alzheimer's,

MS, diabetes and cancer could be treated using genetically

altered cells from other humans (embryonic, fetal and adult
stem cells).
People who can't have children in the traditional way can

have children of their own.

Potential Uses of Stem Cells

Some Risks of Cloning

By "playing God" we may disrupt the natural evolutionary

process (survival of the fittest) in the plant world.

Cloning is a highly inefficient, experimental, and
unpredictable technology that presents serious threats to
both animal and human health and welfare.

Questions?

Due to the controversy over cloning our first human, we have decided to
choose a subject that would have little to no impact on society around him.