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                                                          Medicine + Technology +   Art This week's reading “Magnetic Resonance Imaging as Mirror and Portraits” examines how magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is essentially a form of art. “MRI images become a portrait in so far as they can look back at the viewer” (Casini, 95). My first time getting an MRI was so amazed, at how advanced the machine was, it gives a detailed picture of the inside of your body. I always wonder how people survived back then without this advanced technology. In the lecture, I was surprised when the professor stated, “ technology was not incorporated until the 20th century, and if you used tools and technology you were not considered a doctor” (Vesna, Human Body & Medical Technologies”). I cannot i...

                Robotics  The Future Robotics and technology is everywhere you look around. Years ago people would say “robots are going to be running the world,” in this day and age there are. I stayed at a hotel a few weeks ago and anytime I needed room service this robot would bring it. These robots were all over the hotel working, there were hardly any human workers. Although it is 2022 and nothing is really surprising anymore, I was amazed by the work these machines were doing. In a recent Forbes article it stated by 2025 85 million jobs will be supplanted by automation. It amazes me how now we live in a world where we can't live without technology, but there was once a time where this was looked down upon.  Hotel Robots Food Delivery Services       This week we read “The Work of Art in The Age of Mechanical Reproduction” by philosopher Walter Benjamin. In this essay, Benjamin criticizes the mechanical ...

Hello, everyone!  My name is Chayanne, and I am a 4th-Year Sociology major, Education Studies minor, which means majority of my classes are on North campus. When on campus, there are major differences between the South campus and North campus. For example, the architectural designs of the buildings, the liveliness, and even the amount of students differ between the two campuses. Whenever I went to South campus, I always felt like I was at an entirely different institution.                                                                    UCLA School of Engineering UCLA Dodd Hall The division of campuses is similar to the divide mentioned in this week’s reading, “The Two Cultures and Scientific Revolution,” written by C.P. Snow. The reading focuses on the separation of two cultures: the literary intellectuals an...