Car wash labor evolution

1832-1839 (the exact year is uncertain), Robert Anderson of Scotland invented the first electric carriage
1839, first car wash is invented in his garage
1914, two Detroit men opened the first public one, the Automated Laundry( hydrofluoric acid used as cleaning agent)
1951, Elephant car washes opens up in Seattle (first franchise car wash)
1951, first car wash using Automated robot arms ,etc are used
1976, Car Wash" is a 1976 number-one single by Rose Royce for MCA Records
2006, Oasis a “touch free’ car wash opens

When the car was first invented and sold to the public car washes were a pretty predictable “corrosion” of the automobile invention, when these establishments opened they were all “man operated” establishments, meaning lots of labor (workers) are needed and used to keep these business opens and as car washes spread across America in the 1950’s hundreds of people had simple manual labor jobs open up for them. But with the introduction of the automated systems in the car wash business less “hands” were needed to operate the stores meaning a shift in labor demands is inevitable. So over the years less and less workers are needed and as employers realize seasonal obstacles limit actual human involvement in their business companies like Oasis become another inevitable evolution for the car wash industries and there technologies, Oasis being the first “touch free” or completely automated carwash eliminating the need for actual hands on involvement of humans besides the engineers who check and fix these all automated systems. Not only affecting the number of workers needed but also the type of workers needed. Shifting the demand from simply “young” and fit workers to clean and wipe cars to intellectual and logic workers who are thinkers who can fix and interpret the ailments of computers and their involved systems

Yahoo history timeline

This is baiscally just a revised timeline of yahoo's history that i found ironically through using google

January 1994: Jerry Yang and David Filo create "Jerry's Guide to the World Wide Web" while studying at Stanford University.

April 1994: "Jerry's Guide to the World Wide Web" is re-named "Yahoo!"

March 1995: Yahoo! is incorporated.

1995: Ziff Davis Inc. launches the magazine Yahoo! Internet Life, initially as ZD Internet Life. The magazine was meant to accompany and complement the web site.

April 12, 1996: Yahoo! has Initial public offering, closing at $33.00, up 270% from the IPO price, after peaking at $43.00 for the day.

October 8, 1997: Yahoo! acquires Four11, and Four11's Rocketmail service becomes Yahoo! Mail.
June 8, 1998: Yahoo! acquires Viaweb, co-founded by Paul Graham, which becomes Yahoo! Stores.

October 12, 1998: Yahoo! acquires direct marketing company Yoyodyne Entertainment, Inc. [1]

January 28, 1999: Yahoo! acquires Geocities.

April 1, 1999: Yahoo! acquires Broadcast.com.

January 3, 2000: Yahoo! stocks close at an all-time high of $475.00 (pre-split price) a share. The day before, it hit an intra-day high of $500.13 (pre-split price).

January 19, 2000: At the height of the Dot-com tech bubble, shares in Yahoo! Japan became the first stocks in Japanese history to trade at over ¥100,000,000, reaching a price of 101.4 million yen ($962,140 at that time). [2]

February 7, 2000: Yahoo.com was brought to a halt for a few hours as it was the victim of a distributed denial of service attack (DDoS). [3] [4]. On the next day, its shares rose about $16, or 4.5 percent as the failure was blamed on hackers rather than on an internal glitch, unlike a fault with eBay earlier that year.

June 28, 2000: Yahoo! acquires eGroups.
September 26, 2001 Yahoo! stocks close at an all-time low of $8.11. The day before, it hit an intra-day low of $8.02 (both figures are pre-split prices).

December 27, 2001: Yahoo! acquires HotJobs.
June 3, 2002: SBC and Yahoo! Launch National Co-Branded Dial Service -- Press Release

December 2002: Yahoo! Inc. starts acquisition of Inktomi Web search engine

July, 2003: BT Openworld announces an alliance with Yahoo! -- Press Release

July 2003, Yahoo! acquires Overture Services, Inc.

January 19, 2004: Yahoo! Inc. announces the formation of Yahoo! Research Labs, a research organization focusing on the invention of new technologies and solutions for Yahoo!. Yahoo!'s Head and Principal Scientist, Dr. Gary William Flake, leads the new organization. Dr. Flake has since left the company and now works at Microsoft.

February 19, 2004: Yahoo! drops Google-powered results, returning to its own algorithm and index after it had used Google's results for a long time.

March 2004: Yahoo! launches its own search engine technology.

March 1, 2004: Yahoo! announces (as cited in the New York Times article listed in the "References" section) that it will practice paid inclusion for its search service. However, it also announced it would continue to rely mainly on a free web crawl for most of its search engine content.

March 25, 2004: Yahoo! acquires the European shopping search engine Kelkoo.

July 9, 2004 Yahoo! acquires email provider Oddpost.com [5].

December 15, 2004: Yahoo! launches beta version of its video search engine.

February 9, 2005 Yahoo! Launch is changed to Yahoo! Music, which still provides free music.

February 15, 2005 Yahoo! establishes its European Headquarters in Dublin, Ireland with the creation of 400 new jobs. [6]

February 28, 2005 Yahoo! launches a developer network [7] giving an API to most of its search verticals.

March 2, 2005 Yahoo! completes 10 years of corporate existence. To celebrate this, it gives free ice cream coupons at Baskin Robbins to its users.

March 20, 2005 Yahoo! acquires photo sharing service Flickr [8]

March 29, 2005 Yahoo! launches blogging and social networking service Yahoo! 360° [9]

April 7, 2005 Wikimedia Foundation announces Yahoo! support [10]

May 26, 2005 Yahoo! announces its new PhotoMail service

June 14, 2005 Yahoo! acquires VoIP provider DialPad Communications.

July 15, 2005 Yahoo! announces Yahoo! Research Berkeley

July 25, 2005 Yahoo! acquires widget engine Konfabulator

August 11, 2005 Yahoo! acquires 40% of Alibaba.com for $1 billion US, and Alibaba will take
over operation of Yahoo! China. [11]

August 23, 2005: Verizon and Yahoo! Launch Integrated DSL Service -- Press Release

September 7, 2005. Yahoo! supplies information to People's Republic of China which then jails
reporter Shi Tao, age 37, for 10 years. Yahoo! states that they were following Chinese law. [12]

October 4, 2005 Yahoo! purchases online social event calendar Upcoming.org. [13]

October 17, 2005 Yahoo! buys British company Whereonearth Ltd which provides location technology.

November 15, 2005 The sports section of My Yahoo! is hacked; titles such as "selfhood + conscience" and "aesthetic freedom" link to various pages at doublereflection.org.

December 1, 2005 - Tivo and Yahoo! form a partnership where several Yahoo! features can be viewed on television via the Series2 TiVO set top box. [14], [15]

December 8/ (US time) 9, (Australian time) 2005 Yahoo! 7 announced for January 2006. Official Site

December 9, 2005 Yahoo! acquires del.icio.us.

January 9, 2006 Yahoo! acquires webjay

February 12, 2006 Yahoo! Developer Network PHP Center launched.

June, 2007 [Yahoo Mail gives "unlimited" storage for all users.]

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Catalyts and Corrosions

A
1. What are the catalysts of the technology or science in support of the state? Economics or the needs of a new hard to allocate resource
2. The desires of the people or society basically what is found to be most critical at that time like Anthrax infections or Abortions/pregnancy prevention
3. The military, whatever the State feels will help it to become a much stronger power or will extend its power e.g. (nuclear power or satellites)

B
1.What are the corrosions of the technology or science that undermine the support of the state? Draining other un-thought of resources like ethanol undermining the other uses of corn if that happens to be the main source of food for that State/nation
2. Negatively effective a smaller set of people who will in turn undermine the government by disliking the government, like the geometrically organized forest in Russia that handicap peasant life out in those rural areas
3. Forcing the state to conform to the requirements of this technolgy and hence possibly making the state dependent on another state for the reasources need to use this technology
E.g Cars that run on fossil fuels now have us dependent on winning the Uraq war because we need there fuel

The catalysts and corrosions of The radio Military techno science

An example of a extremely critical techno-science in not only today’s military daily functions but almost all of the military functions past is the radio or radio waves/frequency. In its beginnings the radio was used for communications over long distances and then incorporated into everyday life when radios were first used by the media to broadcast information and entertainment. But the radio served a much bigger purpose other then letting people know who landed the last punch in the latest Mohammed Ali fight, it eventually became as important to the military as the nation wide road network was if not more. Because as the roads were built to serve as a way to decrease the transport time of military goods and vehicles the radio wave served as a way to decrease the amount of time it took to relay important military information over these same distances. Making things such as messenger birds and boys obsolete and exponential increasing tactical efficiency.

In essence the radio allowed for quicker communication and hence the exchange of critical information in shorter times, increasing military power and efficiency. It allowed for far more advanced on ground battle tactics by allowing soldiers to remain in contact even when they could no longer see each other (e.g. CRUCIAL in Vietnam jungle). It made recruiting in some of the mid 1900's war a lot easier through political propaganda and in essence fueled nationalism, Hitler him self said that the Nazi party would not of come together without the loud speaker because of how many people it allowed him to reach, but just imagine that same effect in terms of the radio that allowed him to reach so many people who might not of ever seen his face or heard of him or his ideas before.And finally it made other technologies possible such as the wireless UN-MANED fighter and scouter planes we use today, and the evolution of the radio lead to some of the technologies we consider essential to everyday life like cell phones and satellites, that Militaries everywhere take full advantage of everyday.

In contrast the construction of the Radio also aided in the down fall of the nations railroad system, because physical articles of mail or information became more an more useless. The radio also facilitated in, again political propaganda which might of benefited the government in terms of rallying or recruitment but it negatively effected the people as a whole because it made lying tothem a lot easier. The radio also as it evolved more into a everyday thing forced every family to purchase one, or risk the chance of not only missing this weeks latest Super detective story but also missing out on any possible bomb threats or weather inclinations such as tornadoes or floods. Finally Radios lead to Radio stations and radio stations need land lots of land not only to keep all their radio jockeys but to place there 3 story radio towers up to make broadcasting possible, that means something has to go in there place whether it be land on a nearby marsh or possible farmland or heavily habited forest. Leading to a whole monkey barrels worth of side effects and "back blow"

Science and Technology,(political artifacts)

The question presented this week was "do artifacts have politics" my answer is yes if the artifacts in question are forms of wide spread technology. Almost all things in this world when looked at more closely have some form of political or social bias. And not only the examples given from the article like sidewalks, roads, highways, bridges and atom bombs which are all very effective examples because they illustrate how technology can not only contain politics but social biases but laws as well. But there’s a particular form of technology or a system of technology I want to address, which is banking more specifically savings accounts. The entire system its self is blocking out and almost making it impossible for people of lower incomes or social statuses to obtain one. Where I'm from(DC) homelessness is a big problem, but the system makes it almost impossible for the homeless to stop being homeless. The banks wont let you open up a savings account, without two forms of valid state I.D. (e.g. a driver's license or some variation of it must be one) and a prove of residence. While most people say what’s the big problem all you have to do is show a picture of your self and a envelope with your address on it for a chance at free electronic banking. But If your homeless you don’t have a home therefore you do not have a "proof of residence" and you probably cant afford 2 forms of state I.D. it cost 75 dollars for a permit/license and the 2nd I.D. I don’t even know where they expect regular people to get one. Now this system makes perfect sense when dealing with things such as credit cards and checking accounts where you would like to know where the person is who OWS you money but these savings accounts are held open at no cost to the bank(besides interest) and only contain money from the person who acquired it. So in the case of the homeless if society thinks there all lazy bums who need to get themselves out of there stifling situation why don’t we at least give them a chance to acquire a stable place for them to keep their money other then under their pillows at the shelter or taped to the sock in their shoes and give them a possibility to save up for things through savings accounts like everyone else.

Science and Society

Science and society are also co-evolving or as stated in the readings co-constructed bodies just as science and religion. Even though very closely similar, unlike religion society has the distinct power to control or regulate science, in earlier societies religion governed society and hence governed science but things change and for the most part society has begun or Tried to evolve independent from religion. The people or government in a society control science and what its allowed to research because the government and people establish what is acceptable and ethical as well as fund these pathways. Because scientist can only research the science, that they can get funded for
(as said in class not everyone is Bruce Wayne) society as of now seems to have a firm choke hold on science and its development only allowing it to breathe and expand as it chooses. Now this may sound like a horrible thing but there’s always two sides to every story. Because society has this control sciences will focus on the most pertinent things because that’s what people will fund, because no ones going to donate 3.5 billion dollars to research on the lung cancer of weasels and the chance of there being a crazed maniac like Dr.evil trying to take over the world with some super powered satellite laser is equally unlikely due to this fiscal and ethical controls. But this hold also prevents science from doing a lot of positive things as well or I think its better said as the most or more positive things. For example because of the ethical and fiscal restraints society has developed over science through their co-construction things like Malaria, Tuberculosis, Stem-cells and a quick and efficient cure for A.I.D.S; are not found cures for or researched in-depth because the companies or organizations that fund science based research want the things with the most revenue turn-out potential researched such as many non-life treating diseases or disorders like baldness, erectile malfunction or a fungal infections in toe nails. All things that are most likely to find them customers among the rich and middle class people of well off and economically stable countries. While things that could truly benefit man-kind as a whole are left up to the odds because their recipients are most likely to be poor citizens of war-torn and impoverished countries. But please don’t misinterpret what I’m saying some control is still better then none at all because science still gets a chance to do a lot of good things like the clean air act or the removal of harmful lead from gasoline and prosthetic limbs while societies constraints prevent or deter potentially harmful and “unethical” things like further research into nuclear warfare or animal testing

Science and Religon

From what I've absorbed from listening in class and interpreted from reading, if one was to take the same stand as Mr.McDonough or Braungart it would be probable to assume that Religion is used as a fail safe or back drop plan for any aspects of science or the "real" world we or society don’t understand. Like in ancient Rome environmental anomalies such as lighting and typhoons weren’t interpreted as charged electrical particles in the air or hot and cold air currents violently coming together they were instead thought to be the anger and disapproval of "Zeus" or "Poseidon".So in essence religion is basically depicted as the explanation to a particular era's un-explainable "science".Like in the case of the Mayans and Aztecs who once believed that the sun would not rise if a daily sacrifice wasn’t offered to the sun god Kinich Ahau. But as we all know the sun rises just fine, and will continue to have the world and the other Eight planets of our solar system rotating around it without one of us sacrificing or first born sons or virgin daughters.But Religion and science are two co-evolving bodies, because as one person said in class he believes parts of both the "Big Bang" theory and the scriptures that suggest "intelligent design", which is almost a perfect example of what im getting at which is as time progresses so does are understanding and grasp of the universe around us, and as that knowledge grows for the most part many peoples needs for a belief system or Devine explanation of the workings of the world shrinks or disappears because scince explains how that or many paticular things "really".
Now due to my own religious beliefs I am bias on this subject because regardless of what I read or hear from a book or in class or write in this or future blogs I'm still going to believe that the world was created from intelligent design and that, that particular intellectual is God as I know him. But that doesn’t change the fact that as society progress and transforms its grasp on knowledge religion as a whole transforms its self adapting and forming to explain the not yet explainable and will stay a crucial corner stone and building block to the evolution of human existence and our sciences wether it be the fail safe or the irrational concepts that push the sciences forward