Man Texts Suicide Note to Wife Before Leaping Off Cliff
Terrence O'Brien, Mirror.Co.UK News
Apr 15, 2009
http://www.switched.com/2009/04/15/man-texts-suicide-note-to-wife-before-leaping-off-cliff/
I discovered an article about a forty-six year old British man who committed suicide by jumping off the cliffs of Hogarth Bay. The man left a suicide note like most suicide victims do. Tragedies like this may happen daily; but what I found interesting is that the man decided not to write his suicide note on pen and paper. The man actually sent his suicide note to his wife via the text message. I felt this article to be relevant to information technologies because it just shows how much today’s technologies play a part in our lives. I, personally, think that leaving a person’s final words in a text message is ridiculous, but it actually could have saved the man’s life. When the man’s wife received his text message she immediately alerted authorities who sent a helicopter to try to help save the man’s life. The authorities showed up the second he leapt off of the Cliffside, but imagine how much different the situation would be if we did not have the technologies like texting. If the man were to have left a tangible note on paper, there would have been no telling when his wife would have discovered the letter, and no chance the authorities would have made it to the cliffs in time.
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“Technology's next frontier: In-car computing”
Brandon Griggs, CNN
Jan, 2009
http://www.cnn.com/2009/TECH/01/09/ces.cars.computers/index.html
Car companies are now attempting to become more technologically advanced by adding built-in parts that a person would normally see on a computer. When most people think of this, GPS systems or Onstar is automatically thought of; but now foreign and American companies are “upping the ante.” A few of the new technologies added are road sensors monitored by satellite to warn the driver if they are drifting out of a lane, heat- sensors for pedestrian detection, and an in-car entertainment system that recieves twenty-two television channels. The most discussed and newest information techology in this field is the dashboard computer. This fully-functional computer is being released by Ford and is actually built into the dashboard of the vehicle. The computer has a fully funtional keyboard, a monitor, and has internet capabilities.
I think this the advancement of technologies in the new cars is a good idea because I feel that cars today should be as advanced as everything thing else in our everyday lives. I think the the drift warning and the pedestrian heat sensor ideas are great to make the road a little safer for everyone. As for the dashboard computer and the satellite television stations, I have some concerns with. Many states have already banned the used of cell phones on the road and I think placing an Internet capable computer in the dashboard would be more of a distraction for the driver. This could result in even more unsafe driving. I feel if the computer is not meant for the driver to use while driving or if it is only for the passengers, it should not be in the dashboard. But I also don’t know where else an in-car computer would be built into.
Brandon Griggs, CNN
Jan, 2009
http://www.cnn.com/2009/TECH/01/09/ces.cars.computers/index.html
Car companies are now attempting to become more technologically advanced by adding built-in parts that a person would normally see on a computer. When most people think of this, GPS systems or Onstar is automatically thought of; but now foreign and American companies are “upping the ante.” A few of the new technologies added are road sensors monitored by satellite to warn the driver if they are drifting out of a lane, heat- sensors for pedestrian detection, and an in-car entertainment system that recieves twenty-two television channels. The most discussed and newest information techology in this field is the dashboard computer. This fully-functional computer is being released by Ford and is actually built into the dashboard of the vehicle. The computer has a fully funtional keyboard, a monitor, and has internet capabilities.
I think this the advancement of technologies in the new cars is a good idea because I feel that cars today should be as advanced as everything thing else in our everyday lives. I think the the drift warning and the pedestrian heat sensor ideas are great to make the road a little safer for everyone. As for the dashboard computer and the satellite television stations, I have some concerns with. Many states have already banned the used of cell phones on the road and I think placing an Internet capable computer in the dashboard would be more of a distraction for the driver. This could result in even more unsafe driving. I feel if the computer is not meant for the driver to use while driving or if it is only for the passengers, it should not be in the dashboard. But I also don’t know where else an in-car computer would be built into.
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