What Makes YOU special?

ASM 201 Journal Entry #4

Many generations ago did we all really live in Africa? If we did how did we became spread apart across the world? The world is very big and many things could have happened in these pass generations, including we all use to share something in common in Africa. If we did share something in common then why did we decide to separate into different groups. Therefore causing use to live in different places across the world.

What are the scientific and technological advances necessary to accomplish this Genographic project? There defiantly has to be many advanced tools needed to find the information we need to tell us if this is true. We would also need a lot of people who are willing to do experiments in order to find out this information. Since most people would be interested in finding out where everybody came from they wouldn't have a problem with that.

Could Researchers have accomplished this project 100 years ago? 50? 25? The answer would most likely be no, because 100 years ago we would never have had the technology to find the information we would need to. 5o years ago would still be a huge gap from finding the correct information. 25 years ago could have been possible but i would have been very difficult to accomplish it. Now we are possibly able to accomplish what we need in order to find this information.

Why is the Timing of the Genographic Project important? It is important because if we were to wait too long the stuff we would have needed would have disappeared and we would never we able to find that piece of information again. It is also important because if we didn't wait long enough we would never be able to create the tools needed in order to help us find the information.

In conclusion we would have to require a lot of work in order for us to find out the truth if we all used to live in a part of Africa and for what reason did we all split apart for.

Reading in Cyberspace ?!?

ASM201 Journal Entry Question #5

Reading in Cyberspace, will it be affective? Will reading in cyberspace increase the amount of reading an average person does? A lot of people can take advantage of this since they can read or take a preview of the book they might buy. Its like a library on your computer but you don't have to look really hard to find the book. All you have to do is type the name of the book and click the one you like.

Do you think librarians will be threatened by the new development? Well the answer will probably be no. The book search will most likely not have all the book that can be found at the library. Since it only runs on sources that it has recent relations with. Old books found in the library might not be available online. Therefore people will still have to visit the library for information.

Will this library-based digitization affect Google’s relationships with publishers? This will not affect them a lot because publishers, librarians, authors and the general public have all expressed interest in the Google Books Library Project. Therefore not changing the publishers relationship with Google.

In conclusion Google Books can be a very good resource for people to use without leaving their homes to go to the library.