Case Study ‘Blu-ray versus HD-DVD: A Standards Battle in High-Definition Video’ Discussion Questions 1. What factors do you think influenced whether (1) consumers‚ (2) retailers or (3) movie producers supported Blu-ray versus HD-DVD? Every party in this standards battle had its own reasons for chosing one standard over the other. For instance‚ the motives for movie producers to choose Blu-ray were completely different from the motives for consumers to choose Blu-ray. In our opinion‚ the main factors
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In The Martian Chronicles‚ Bradbury ties in historical events and uses them to make certain points about human society. The three main topics he explores are colonization‚ technological advancement and censorship. These issues arose during the 1900s‚ throughout a significant part of Bradbury’s life. They had an extremely influential role on human society and way of life. Competition between countries and the protection of national ideals were catalysts for technological advancements and brought
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As humanity entered the twentieth century a breakdown in social convention and the resultant blossoming of social ideas lead to the conception of a new literary sub-genre‚ soft science fiction. Inspired by works including “The Iron Heel” by Jack London1‚ it used the deficiencies and corruptions in both capitalist and communist culture to predict a dystopian future. These counter or anti-utopian societies often focus on the dehumanisation of the proletariat‚ and how the ruling class use fear and war
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that authors such as Bradbury and George Orwell pictures in their books‚ a world that exists under the image of utopia‚ and yet to the reader seems like a foreign‚ inhumane residence dominated by an all-powerful government. George Orwell’s 1984‚ and Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451 depicts two different dystopic worlds. The settings of both books are different and the characters are unique; however‚ both of these books are also very similar. 1984 and Fahrenheit 451 are similar dystopic literatures by
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The story “The Golden Kite‚ the Silver Wind”‚ can be seen as an allegory about the Cold War. The opposing towns‚ the walls‚ and the Mandarins in the story all serve as symbols to the war. The towns represent the two opposing states in the Cold War--the United States and Soviet Union. The two rival towns in the story symbolize the United States and the Soviet Union because they continuously upgrade their walls’ structures to stay on top of their opponent‚ similarly to how the USA and USSR added copious
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Transcendent Man is a 2009 documentary film by American filmmaker Barry Ptolemy about inventor‚ futurist and author Ray Kurzweil and his predictions about the future of technology in his 2005 book‚ The Singularity is Near. In the film‚ Ptolemy follows Kurzweil around the world as he discusses his thoughts on the Technological Singularity‚ a proposed advancement that will occur sometime in the 21st century when progress in genetics‚ nanotechnology‚ and robotics will result in the creation of a human-machine
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When Pranks on Played Pranks can be funny‚ but they can also be hurtful. In the short stories‚ “The Mouse Plot‚” by Ronald Dahl‚ and “All Summer in a Day‚” by Ray Bradbury‚ both involved children whose shenanigans cause painful consequences. “The Great Mouse Plot‚” part of Ronald Dahl’s autobiography‚ a group of schoolmates plays a trick on Mrs. Pratchett the mean‚ and filthy candy shop owner. They decided to put a dead mouse into one of her jars of candy‚ causing Mrs. Pratchett to drop the
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PLANNING: - Title: - An Experiment to investigate the lateral displacement of a ray of light through a rectangular block of a transparent material. Aim: - To investigate the lateral displacement for different angles and how the displacement depends on the angle of incidence when a ray of light enters the Perspex block. Scientific Background: - Refraction occurs when the speed changes when the lights travels from one medium to another medium. If the light travels from a medium to a denser medium
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into technology that she is lacking many human characteristics. (BS-3) Clarisse is never on technology‚ so she is different‚ she connects with the people around her because she does not have the distractions of electronics. (TS) In Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury‚
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Fahrenheit 451 Ray Bradbury How plausible is the future envisioned in this novel? The large screen televisions are believable - in fact‚ technology is currently leaning towards 48‚ 56" TVs that nearly fill up the whole wall. When this book was written‚ it seemed like an obscure possibility that TVs would ever be that big. The Seashell earphones are like CD players. People can be listening to them in one ear and having a somewhat normal interaction with the half of their brain that’s not listening
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