Emerging Technologies Tetrad

Tetrad: Cellular Phone

Enhances: They are digital, you are able browse and buy from the Internet, send emails, take pictures, record, and have GPS navigation.

Obsoletes: Mobile car phones and could only talk 35 minutes.

Retrieves/rekindles: The big phones in a bag that people would use and the signals could not get far out. To input the text you will blow on the screen to switch modes, and then write with your finger as a stylus.

Reverses: It will occur. A “window phone” will reflect current conditions on the screen. Another example is a solar phone that is on the back of the pone with curved surface allowing it to stick to a window by suction to charge. Plus, it will not get lost on a desk.

References:

Retrieved September 24, 2010 from http://inventors.about.com/library/weekly/aa072199.htm

Ng, A. The Huffington Post, 2010. Retrieved September 24, 2010 from http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/02/05/future-phones-the-coolest_n_450678.html?slidenumber=EeQ3cB9j0ug%3D&slideshow#slide_image
Liu Hsiang-Ling's "Sticker Phone"

Identify an Emerged Technology

A current technology that has emerged in the last few years is blogging. It has shaped learning in higher education. There has been no problems or challenges associated in this technology.

The societal needs that it has met are allowing collaboration among students. The benefits are that students can write text, assignments, and post to one another blogs. They are able to provide feedback, correction, videos and opinions in response to projects and assignments. Students are able to work on a project together providing information along with creating team blog. Even when you are on the go you can use Go Mobile. Blogging can be done in 41 different languages.

The website that I used is: http://www.blogger.com/start