EOTO review of Technological terms and concepts

There was some very interesting things that were brought up during the each one teach one presentations.  For starters, I found false flags to be fascinating.  False flags are a huge thing I history to generate wars and have the publics opinion on justifying that war.   One such incident is when Japan blamed China for the destruction of a train. The train explosion was never investigated, just forced China to take the blame. This became known as the Mukden Incident, which was one of the reasons that Japan became such a powerhouse during World War II.  

Another fact that hit home was the idea of cord cutting.  Me and my family don’t watch many films, and when we do, it is more convenient to stream them instead of watching them.  This happened during COVID-19 and has remained in our house ever since, we do have shows on cable, but they are few and flung between, even to the point where it is easier to not watch cable at all.  I myself prefer to go onto streaming services to watch my shows on.

A streaming service, Hulu

A third cool fact that I learned is propaganda started all the way in Athens, Greece.  I found this fascinating because while modern propaganda was not there, the idea of having something to skew you into viewing the presentation positively.  This means that propaganda is as old, if not older, than some of the mythological stories that I like reading about.

A fourth thing I learned about is the idea of news deserts.  While I didn’t get a perfect view of the map, I believe my hometown that I grew up in is currently in a news desert.  This was weird for me because this is all I knew growing up was an absence of news and not how important the news currently are.

A map of the American news deserts

The age of AI

 When It comes to AI, there are many security issues that are raised with it’s introduction into the police.  The fact that AI is tracking every person who comes in a driveway, every person at a train stop, every person on the crosswalk is in a database that is housed in one place is scary.  If one hacker decides to infiltrate the police database, every part of our identity could be in the hands of a single man. Even then AI searching on everyone and having that information on them is even scarier because China, one of the biggest American threats, is one of the biggest influences of AI.  This leads to having a much more troubling issue with espionage and spying on American people.  While we can definitely work together to create a much better AI, people’s ego will get in the way of what is beneficial for the human race, instead focusing on what is beneficial for the country.

However, having an idea of where everyone with a warrant is could keep the streets we live on a little bit safer.  Having AI comb through warrants and spotting them is very beneficial for police work to figure out where potential threats are.  This leads to quicker arrests and less homicides.  Identifying even the way you walk can have an impact on data management because, for better or for worse, AI is in everything we use.  This can use this to our benefit and have a much clearer picture on how to handle safety concerns in neighborhoods.  Even now with how much AI has made people fear it, it can still be used as a tool to help those in need.  It being a relatively newer piece of technology can lead to people having much more of a learning experience to make a better product for consumers.

Overton Window

The Overton window is a political theory in which the popular policies that one can enact while they are influenced by what the masses see as popular.  These policies are often what political campaigns can often revolve around.  Basically how an Overton window works is when a policy is viewed as positive in the eyes of the public, policies are passed by the way the viewpoint the masses see about the issue.  This often leads to political campaigns based around these very topics concerning the Overton window.  Those who are inside the Overton window will often beat those outside the Overton window.  The best way to explain the Overton window is through examples of what it looks like.

An example of the Overton window

The first example that can best explain the Overton window is prohibition.  When prohibition first was a thing alcohol was viewed as something that ruined that could and was ruining America.  Wayne Wheeler turned everyone against alcohol.  He told the poverty stricken that alcohol is the reason that they are in poverty.  He told the rich that they would lose all their money.  This campaign worked and congress was replaced into pro-prohibition.  It didn’t help that Germany, who was big on their beer, started a war.  This skewed the Overton window into a very pro-prohibition.

After the 18^th amendment was put into place, crime was rampant among all major cities.  Bootlegging was one of biggest crimes of that era. It got so bad that police completely ignored many of the bootlegging.  Al Capone, one of the most notorious bootleggers, had such a big crime ring, he couldn’t be brought down through normal means.  During this, protests to repeal the 18^th amendment were in full swing.  However, President Herbert Hoover thought Prohibition was a good thing during the protests.  This led to this being one of the biggest reasons President Franklen D. Roosevelt won the elections to issue the 21^st amendment.  The election shows the skewing in the opposite way of the Overton window.

Another example, which is more modern day, is same-sex marriage in the United States, specifically the laws in California.  During this time, LGBTQ+ advocation was not as prominent as it is today. A law was made to ban same-sex marriage.  This was mainly from religious organizations who wanted to ban the whole thing. This is what became known as California’s Proposition 8.  At this time, there was a very uncontroversial thing.  This means that the Overton window for this was very skewed for this exact purpose.

After this law was in place, there was a surge of Pro-LGBTQ+ protests.  These protests helped skew the Overton window in the favor of LGBTQ+.  It was so prominent that it made its way into the Supreme Court.  2 years after Proposition 8 was issued, the Supreme Court ruled that same-sex marriage was legal in Hollingsworth v. Perry.  This showed where the Overton window was at this time, deeply in favor of the LGBTQ+ community.  This idea of the Overton window has been in history and something that is currently in use.