The development of Technology

It is the name of a science and technology studies theory describing technology development, developed by Czech philosopher Radovan Richta. According to Richta and later Bloomfield, technology evolves in three stages: tools, machine, automation. This evolution, he says, follows two trends: the replacement of physical labour with more efficient mental labour, and resulting to a greater extent, the degree of control over a person's natural environment, including an ability to transform raw materials into ever more complex products. The emergence of technology, created the way for the first stage: the tool. A tool provides a mechanical advantage in accomplishing a physical task, and must be powered by human or animal effort. Hunter-gatherers developed tools mainly for procuring food. Tools such as a container, spear, arrow, plow, or hammer that augments physical labor to more efficiently achieve his objective. The second technological stage was the creation of the machine. A machine is a tool that substitutes the element of human physical effort, and requires the operator only to control its function. Examples of this include cars, trains, computers, and lights. Machines allow humans to tremendously exceed the limitations of their bodies. The third, and final stage of technological evolution is the automation. The automation is a machine that removes the element of human control with an automatic "algorithm". All three of these stages outline the introduction in the fundamentals of technology.

why?

As I came home and began to think: With SAT Prep classes, 11th grade and its demanding hours, drama and its monotony, track with its overbearing stress thrusted upon me every single day, a grandma with a vicious thyroid cancer, two other grandparents with severe alsymers, a good friend who jumped in front of a train because of assholes treating him like shit all his life, a dad doing everything to keep his job, a mom who is so stressed out from my grandparents and her job that she needs to come in my room to cry before going out to pick up my my brother from basketball, and another friend with a serious drug problem its hard to feel good about anything. I don't understand how a person can possibly get all their shit done within a 24 hour period. In simple terms, this year sucks.
But I still try to keep a positive output on life and everything else in order to preserve my sanity. I try to get good grades and work my ass off everyday to get away from this hell whole of a life. I used to believe that everything happens for a reason because God predetermines every ones life. But this year has given me a different outlook on the world around me. This so called God, who's said to do everything for the good of people, has given us this shit economy, where people are committing suicide everyday because they can't support their families or themselves and rich corporate executives who sit on their ass and smoke Cuban cigars all day can give their goldfish a Ferrari with their $10 million bonuses. How can there possibly be a God when thousands are dieing a day in Africa from AIDS and starvation. When Haiti is destroyed by an earthquake, and they were so poor before that they can't give medical care or food to 1/4 of the population. When overpopulation is causing the worlds resources to a point where soon they will be dearth. When Antarctica's wildlife is being decimated by their habitat being destroyed by the global warming of the ozone layer in the atmosphere caused from people bullshitting all the time. When murder, stealing, rape and suicide are daily occurrences. The world is so fucked up that even the thought of a God is quiesce and has no purpose. The world is so full of assholes that need to be beat and set on fire. I conclude this rant with somewhat of a moral. I am not saying that my life is bad because it is not bad at all, I consider myself very lucky compared to many other people's shitty lives. When you think, my life sucks right now and no one can compare to my stress level and my terrible life, just look at the world and think of all the people who are suffering and struggling through each day, wondering whether they will live to see the sunset the next morning, then think whether your life is so bad.

Avatar

Back in 1996, James Cameron announced that he would be creating a film called Avatar, a science-fiction epic that would feature "photo-realistic, computer-generated characters."
He had a treatment for the film, which already defined many things, including the Na'vi – a primitive alien race standing ten feet tall with shining blue skin, living in harmony with their jungle-covered planet Pandora. Soon after, though, Avatar had to be shelved as the technology of the time could not satisfy the creative desires of the director. The near-900 strong crew spanned across six locations are practically working around the clock to achieve what was deemed impossible a decade earlier. Weta Digital, the New Zealand studio responsible for the groundbreaking visual effects in The Lord of the Rings trilogy and King Kong, is taking VFX to a new level of creative and technological excellence. For Avatar, the studio has created over 1,800 stereoscopic, photo-realistic visual effects shots, many of them of the Na'vi as 'hero' characters. In addition to digital characters and environments are the machines, vehicles, equipment and everything else that help blur the line between imagination and reality.
For animating the digital characters in Avatar, Weta Digital had to develop some key technologies that would simulate realism as accurately as possible. Previously, Weta used relatively simplified muscle-simulation systems to generalise how muscles deformed a character's skin. With Avatar, CG supervisor Simon Clutterbuck led the team to create a more accurate skeletal and muscle-simulation system. For the Na'vi to be believable, realistic facial animation was crucial. The Na'vi experience a wide range of emotions and the facial animation had to convey these in a realistic way.