Video Games Good for Health?
This article was interesting because I, like many others, thought that video games were bad for your health. What part of sitting for hours on end and binge eating sounds healthy? This article said that first person shooter video games are actually healthy for neural processing and efficiency. I don’t think that I like the idea of games where the object is to kill as many “bad guys” as possible, but I can understand how it could increase brain efficiency and coordination. Next, this article claims that the accruing of point/coins/kills through out a level reinforces kids’ efforts therefore making them more likely to finish the level. This helps to develop the incremental theory of intelligence. I can’t refute the next point the article bring up; it says that video games teach kids how to be more social. I 100% agree with this because a lot of games require cooperation and teamwork in order to accomplish a common goals.
Deep Fakes
In class we learned about a software called “Deep Fakes” where if someone has enough images of a person, then they can make an artificial video of that person; it’s like the ultimate photoshop. What’s even more concerning is that if someone has enough snippets of your voice then a computer can generate, with scary accuracy, a voice that sounds like yours. So now we have the technology to not only show you “doing” something you never actually did, but we also have the technology to show you saying something that never actually came out of your mouth. The first thought that came to my mind when I heard this was what if someone did this to Trump and made him say something that would be bad for our foreign relationship, if you know what I mean…
Healthcare Analytics
As someone who works in the healthcare field, I can see how continuity between departments can be extremely beneficial. Since I’m not working behind the scenes collecting and analyzing data I can’t tell how it’s traditionally done, but implementing systems such as the one created by healthcare data-works seems to improve the quality of services offered by healthcare institutions. In the nursing home that I work in this software could be used to track and supply items that we use on a regular basis. This could cut costs on things that are usually over-ordered and help to keep in stock those items that we never seem to have.
Emily 