Tech Voyagers Guide to Innovation

If you're a student in College, Highschool, and even Middle School, you have more than likely been told to never use AI while completing school work. In most cases, you have probably been threatened to never use AI or some repercussion might ensue. This has been, and currently is, the normal procedure of AI in 2024. But things are starting to change. A famous quote by Upton Sinclair states "It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it." In the age of AI, we have seen the impact it has on the workforce with significant job loss. Rachel Curry addresses this issue within her article, "Recent data shows AI job losses are rising, but the numbers don’t tell the full story." Just as the title hints, the article starts with the same unoriginal story of AI causing job loss, but at the end, she points out that AI has only replaced aspects of a job. Though the scope of the job is replaceable by AI, this has allow...

When it comes to innovation, the beginning stage is often addressing a problem. Addressing the problem could be coming up with a product for people to use, or creating an app that supports users in a specific area. There are so many solutions that one can create to address a problem, but we often struggle to find inspiration, or even know what is or isn't a problem. Sometimes, the problem has already been addressed by numerous other innovators with similar products that just seem to rip off of each other. Sounds a bit rude right? But in all actuality, many great businessmen and innovators build their ideas off of others creations. As I was traveling to LA Comic-Con to sell our business wares, I happened to book an AirBnB under a gentleman who was the CEO of a rather large software company. Without giving away too many details, he said something that has stuck with me till this day, "You dont have to be first, you just have to do it better".  So you might not be the best a...

Have you ever read an article about a brand new invention recently created? Browsed the web on the latest technological discoveries, or religiously followed certain social media accounts for the latest computer reviews? Most of us browse the web without a single thought of how it operates in the background, or how we have access to all this information. When it comes to gathering knowledge that might lead us to the next break-through discovery, it is important to remember how we are able to access such a wealth of information. Enter the internet. Perhaps the greatest innovation to ever be created, and something that allows all future innovators access to amazing amounts of information and knowledge. The internet, to put it simply, is a network of interconnect computers that allow people to share data and communicate with each other. Not to be confused with the Web, or the World Wide Web, which is a vast amount of webpages and websites that allow users (you and I) to interact with, like...

 When you think of AI, what comes to mind?  Was it "future", "technology","smart","new"," or even "innovative"? Most words that come to mind would be correct, but I want to emphasize that MOST words would be correct. When people think of AI, they think of it as a new-age technology that represents the future. Much of this accurate, but its important to note that AI was actually first developed around the 1950's. While sitting in my university class talking about the beginnings of AI, this tidbit of information was pretty astounding to me. Its hard to think that AI was being discussed so long ago (almost 100 years!) and that the question of what is considered intelligent was a big conversation. The big question around that time was how to classify a program as intelligent when no measurement had been created. This question is still big today, and as I learned in my class, a question that has evolved over the years. Back then, th...

 Over years the word "Machine" has created very different feelings for those who read or hear it. To those striving to create the best technology on the market, the machine is something they yearn to concur and make their own. In the Governments ears, this brings eagerness to see what they can profit from and earn even more money and power than before. For those struggling to survive on whatever meager wages and benefit's they can from the government, this creates a feeling of fear and suppression. Commonly referred to as "The Machine", its not hard to see why its synonymous with fear for those without power, and lust for those with power, but I argue that the "Machine" is now a terminology that we all have experienced with a mix of joy, fear, and eagerness. In todays world, technology is everywhere and can be accessed in almost any setting. Though not everyone can afford a Mac Pro laptop or the latest Apple phone, we see technology used in grocery sto...