Assignment # 2

Think about yourself worthy to be called as IT professional, what innovations/technologies would you introduce/contribute to improve the quality of life.


Am I worthy to be called IT professional? Hmm…. Frankly, I don’t bother myself to ask this kind of question. I’m sure that whoever will read this answer of mine would probably say that “why she took IT, if she never wish to be an IT professional someday?” My answer is this. I am an IT student but I never aim to be an IT professional in the future. I believe that there is no such profession that will improve the quality of human life or even the animal life. ^_^

Yes, our parents send us to school to attained education. An education that will lead in to a profession. To gain a profession is the highest compliment that I can pay to my parents. Taking an IT course, it is expected that someday I will become an I.T. professional. Maybe deep within myself there is a longing to be an expert in IT, a contradicting thought in the first paragraph. You know why I said those things? It is because I think I cannot be the same with others who are very good in IT. I am a computer science student, but I am not good. A little knowledge that I cannot be proud of as an IT student. However, I know that in the other way around I can be a productive citizen.

IT what does it means? Information Technology is a broad area which deals with technology and other aspect of processing information. Technologies are used by human such as machines, hardware, etc. A lot of contribution that a technology has given to us. And undoubtedly the innovation of technology brings social change. But to have a technology is very expensive, so how about the people who can’t afford to buy those technologies? Do they can never have the chance to live life comfortably and do things easily? How pity they are because they can never feel how to live life happily. Sometimes, I said to myself that life is so unfair. Not all people in the world had the chance to enjoy the technologies. Therefore, Advances in Technology, is generally not shared within. People with money have the opportunity to acquire technology, which make them possible to acquire even more wealth. As observed that almost technologies are intended for war, they inventors of this kind of technology always anticipated war. The development of weapons has evolved throughout the history. By that war has been and will continue to be the driving force for technology and innovation. Though not all technologies are intended for wars, there is also technology that has been used for peaceful purposes. Like the invention of the telephone, internet, and other communication devices that allow people from different part of the world to have an access to each other. Aside from the automotive cars, that helps human to travel very fast. There are number of ways that technology has affected our society and our surroundings. The question is whether technologies improves the human condition or worsen it? Well, my opinion is technologies improve human condition, of what I have site above however it also worsen other human condition. Like what I have said that wealthy people can have those technology, but how about those unfortunate? Consider this example; if you are wealthy you can buy any technology that you wished, which you think that it improves your way of living. On the other side, poor people can lose his/ her job because manpower is not needed anymore. From that example technologies worsen human condition. With these technologies the traditional norms are replaced. It can be viewed as an activity that forms or changes culture. Technology is known the arts for the benefit of life.

Professional what does it mean? It is a person in a profession. Profession involve the application of specialize knowledge of a subject or field. You cannot be called professional instantly, whenever you wish because being a professional person you must acquire knowledge, which along with the skills are the knowledge. I look at a professional person as a person who had done a lot in his/ her life. Accomplishments are overflowing and of course the he/ she have all the knowledge. Commonly professionals are engaged in creative and challenging works. They are expected to be independent and handle responsibility accordingly. People are different. There are professional people that provide service in exchange for payment or salary. They will not give there service unless you pay them according the amount that they asked for you as there talent fee. But there are also professionals that give service for free. Talents and skills of professional are important in any forms of work be it paid, unpaid, volunteer or any other works. I make some research of what is a true professional.

According to wiki, A true professional must be proficient in all criteria for the field of work they are practicing professionally in.

1. Academic qualifications - i.e., university college/institute
2. Expert and specialized knowledge in field which one is practicing professionally
3. Excellent manual/practical & literary skills in relation to profession
4. High quality work in (examples): creations, products, services, presentations, consultancy, primary/other research, administrative, marketing or other work endeavors
A high standard of professional ethics, behavior and work activities while carrying out one's profession (as an employee, self-employed person, career, enterprise, business, company, or partnership/associate/colleague, etc.)

Based from the criteria above, a professional must possess a large body of knowledge derived from extensive academic study with the training almost always formalized.

An IT professional, is a person in a profession who possess a large body of knowledge in the field of Information Technology.

As if, I am worthy to be called IT professional. I must possess the expertise to be an IT professional. Being an IT professional is a big responsibility because whatever innovation/ technology that I invented affects the human life. I am accountable of anything that will happen as an effect of my invention whether it improves or worsen human condition.

Of course, if I am an IT professional, I want to be useful IT professional. The technology that I will introduce/ contribute to improve quality of life would be advance technology of solar panels. Today our main source of energy are fossil fuels, we import it from other country in order to obtain them and we pay for it for a high price. But when will it last. Does the SUPPLY of fuels in other countries enough to sustain the NEEDS of the WORLD? We all know that others (scientists )are still searching for other source of energy other that fossil fuels. But can they last for CENTURIES? I think NOT. The BEST source of energy is the SUN itself. Sun gives us many benefits. Energy from the sun can be used for many practical purposes, including generating electricity and heating water. In fact, using solar energy instead of fossil fuels to meet some of our energy needs reduces emissions of greenhouse gases and other pollutants.. And it will last for CENTURIES. In the future there will be an advance technology of solar panels. Solar panels are no longer installed inside the earth but outside the earth, SPACE. There will be humongous solar panels floating in space that are installed in a space station. It can charge instantly cause it is a direct sunlight. It does not enter the earth atmosphere anymore because the sunlight energy is somehow reduced by this atmosphere. So when the SOLAR panels are converting the sunlight to solar energy, the energy converted is now then being transported/linked to earth. HOW? By building an orbital elevator. Orbital elevator is a tower that is connecting the earth and the space station. From the word “elevator” it can transport something. It can transport the solar energy from space station to earth. It can transport people through a shuttle running inside the orbital elevator. So by this technology, man can somehow relax for the supply of energy being given by the sun. Because If sun runs out of energy then that will be the only time that we no longer have a source of energy. So as long as it is there were happy. I want this technology to be available to everybody. Because technology is for people. With the advent of technology, the lifestyle of many people changed. People want their lives to be better. That’s a usual reason. To be worthy to be called as IT professional, I will do my best to do some innovation of technology that would improve the quality of life, thus the main concern is to make people happy. Though things are changing faster and we always face different challenges in our life it is so difficult to compete with the continuous change of the world.

Another innovation of technology that I will contribute is a separator of hydrogen and Oxygen. This will separate the elements of the water, the hydrogen and oxygen. With this technology pollution coming form the vehicle will be eliminated because using the hydrogen from the separated elements of the water, the vehicle will release a clear smoke that will not harm our health. There is also a high tech screen that will filter the smoke that comes out from the steam engine of car. If the smoke is now being filtered, the smoke will not anymore be dangerous. This means that hydrogen is an alternative form of car gasoline. Then the other separated element which is the oxygen will also play its role. With this invention it is not only the human that will benefit but also the environment. We can preserve all the living things here on it.

Another technology is a machine that will help the farmers. This machine will sip the unwanted pests that will harm the plants. I want it to be 100% eliminated. The harmful pests will be grind into a new technology that will make those grinded unwanted pest into a fertilizer. I want it to be like this so that everything is recyclable. Everything is useful. Nothing is wasted. So if harmful pests will be eliminated the burden of the farmers towards the pests will also be eliminated. The plants in the fields will grow healthy and bountiful. By this there will be no shortage of foods, no hungry people in the street. If everything is good, the possibility is the market price of the food is low and everybody can afford to buy. Hope so. However, all of these technologies are useless if anyone will abuse it, and they will not use it properly. Therefore the real secret to improve the quality of life of people is in the hands of people. Even though, we have a lot of invention to improve the quality of living of mankind, if people will not help themselves, there will be no improvement.

Everything in this world comes form our father God, so we must value everything here on earth. Like on how we value our life. Some other IT professional would think that weapons improve the quality of life because by this technology nobody will bully us. But God says that we should value our life, so for me lets not join to any war, because if we join, it is just the same that we don’t value our life. We strive to live, right? But always remember that the whole thing here on earth is temporary, all our effort is useless. When our Father God will judge the living and the dead, there is no escape. So to fully acquire what we are longing to live an improvement of life, we should get knowledge from God, then work according to his rule and by that there will be a chance that you can have an eternal life, as well as you can live in the paradise, and I’m sure the longing of mankind to have a quality of life will be fully experienced. There is no such technology invention of any types of professional that can give human the quality of life. It is only Father God.