Blown To Bits: Chapter 2 questions

1. Judge and justify whether the use of hidden RFIDs be restricted or not.
2. Paraphrase the "Fair Information Practice Principles".
3. Predict how similar George Orwell's society in 1984 will be to our own in 15 years.
4. Try to analyze and determine where other people and companies could find information about you. 
(example: Facebook, RFIDs, GPS)
5. Compile a list of different technology and devices mentioned in this chapter used to identify people.

Blown to Bits Chapter 1- Response to Tim's Questions

1. A Koan is a question or statement meant to make you really think about the topic at hand.

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3. Technology is both good and bad in certain aspects. It's bad for the fact that it can be used to commit crimes: downloading music illegally, pirating expensive software, phishing and scamming are a few crimes that can be committed online. On the other hand, technology is also very good, helping people communicate from halfway across the globe in a second, keeping store inventory, and generally being a useful tool in our everyday lives.

4. Moore's Law will likely continue in its current pattern until we start hitting size limits. At certain, tiny sizes, even if wires are totally sealed, electricity can bleed over into other wires. At that point, we'll have to wait for quantum computing to develop before Moore's Law resumes.

All of these answers are in response to Tim's questions.

App Design

Matching Game

To make this app we thought of a few different ideas (such as a timer), but settled on a matching game app. There wasn't much we could add to it, but I thought of and added a score counter about halfway through.

To be honest, we didn't use much teamwork because most of the work was in the coding itself, and after I started writing the first few blocks of code nobody else could figure out what I was doing. Next time I'll see if I can get more involvement in the art of the game, or split up the coding.

The 'problem' my app solved was boredom. While other apps do it way better, this is a good start..

The biggest challenge in making the app was figuring out how to detect matches. Each card has its own number 1-16, so cards 1 and 2 match, cards 3 and 4 match, etc. The final 'if' statement ended up looking like this: 

if (((cardA % 2) == 1) AND (cardA = (cardB - 1))) OR (((cardB % 2) == 1) AND (cardB = (cardA - 1)))

Given more time, I could improve the game by making better card images, adding an image to the back of the cards, and making a title screen.

You can download the app here!

Also, today's my birthday! \o/