Blog assignment #4: The state of the planet

We humans work in a specific way, we are all curious and want to develop things. From the first energy source we used, witch is the fire, have we constantly widened our ways to gather energy. With the industrialisation a new revolutionary device was introduced, it was the combustion engine. Now 150 years later many scientists think that this machine will ruin the world. The reason is that the exhaust gas includes CO2 witch damages the ozone layer. Right now with our knowledge of environmental causes there are a lot of researches to find a remedy for the ozone layer. We can predict what’s going too happened with the planet if we don’t make some changes in our energy consumption. We will have a much warmer climate witch will lead up to a melting of the polar ices and a higher water level witch will be hazardous for many peoples. This has intimidating a lot of peoples.


/Anton

Blog Assignment #3: Interview with the Vampire

Since the last half year I’ve been almost obsessed with Vampires. It all started with the TV-show True Blood, which by the way the Swedish actor Alexander Skarsgard makes a brilliant take as a Norse vampire. I truly recommend this show. Next up was the Swedish success movie “let the right one in” and after that the teenager movie “Twilight”.
I have never liked the movies about Blade or the shows about Buffy. I think it is because they shows vampire from a bad angle instead of showing them in a more poetic way.

However, after this I was forced to see this Vampire movie again, which is from the year 1994. Really major actors play in this movie, actors like Tom Cruise, Brad Pitt, Christian Slater, Antonio Banderas and a very young Kirsten Dunst.
The film is based on the novel “Interview with the vampire” by Anne Rice. It opens in present time with a reporter talking with a Vampire called Luis. Through the movie we can hear Luis (Brad Pitt) talk about his life as a vampire, from when he first turned in to a vampire and all his adventures until present. What makes Luis special is that he still have kept some of his humanity after he changed. We can also follow Claudia who’s transformed into a vampire as a child.The film is about beauty, wealth, passion and desire, but even more about the endless search for satisfaction.

//A

Blog assignment #2: Will we be known?

I can make it easy for myself and say that there will be no more humans 1000 years from now. A lot of peoples think that humanity relative soon will be destroyed by diseases, wars, technical development (as artificial intelligence) or by climatic changes.

We have in many thousands of years leaned on our ability to evolve into what we are best suited for. But that time is over, I think. From now we are forced to use our brains to fit in and survive. Our technical knowledge will be our perdition or our survival, however we will not stand long without develop and usage when we live as we does today.

To know our history is important but it is irrelevant if there are no ones alive to read about us. According to the current storage mediums, like CD-ROM and hard drive, and their short lifespan. Information will always be copied into newer mediums, and with the electronic file systems we have on our computers there will not be difficulties to transform a text file from an older computer to a newer one.

/Anton

Video game addiction

My knowledge of video games is more or less restricted. I have never come in contact with the heavier games like World of Warcraft, Conan and CS (counter strike). The type of games that are closest to me are sport games, I don’t know how many hours I’ve wasted on the ice hockey game NHL. I guess that’s some kind of addiction.

It doesn’t matter how you look at it, it will always be a problem. However, if you can be able to “handle the addiction” there is a lot to learn from it I think. I’ve some friends that played a lot back in the days. One friend was forced to quit high school because his addictions to the game counter strike. But when I ask him if he have some regrets from it he says that it wasn’t just bad for him, he made some new contacts and most important, he learned English very well.

The development in video games goes forward and the means of communication becomes better and better. Today you can have a lot of friends to play with and you don’t even have to meet them eye to eye. This is and will be a major problem, especially for the younger ones. Humans need to be social and get together with other people.


//Anton Möller

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