In 1939, Luther George Simjian installed the first ATM(Automated Teller Machine). It was placed next to the City Bank of New York but removed after six months because of a lace of customer acceptance. 25 years later, De La Rue introduced the first electronic ATM in North London for the Barclays Bank. The machine originally used a single use voucher or token to get the money. 

In 1968, the ATM was networked in Dallas, Texas by Donald Wetzel, who was department head at Docutel. With easy access to money, being close to the bank that one belongs to no longer mattered and it made all money withdrawals quick and convenient. The banks were also less crowded and required fewer tellers as a result of people not needing other people to give them the money. 

Similar technology to the ATM was used to develop machines that distribute postage stamps, lottery tickets, train tickets, and concert tickets thus taking away jobs that people could be doing.

Timeline for Google

• 1995- Larry Page and Sergey Brin meet while Sergey is assigned to show Larry around Stanford.
• 1996- Larry and Sergey, collaborate on a search engine off of the university server called BackRub. A little after one year, BackRub used up too much bandwidth allowed from the university.
• 1997- Larry and Sergey come up with the name Google. A variation of the word “googol”, a math term for the number 1 followed by 100 zeros.
• 1998, August- Andy Bechtosheim, writes a check for $100,000 to Google Inc. which doesn’t exist yet.
• 1998 September- Google sets up work in Susan Wojcicki’s garage.
• 1999 Febuary- Google grows out of the garage and into an office in Palo Alto with 8 employees.
• 2000 May- Google sets up first version with 10 languages available.
• 2001 July-  Google launches Google Image, offering over 250 million images
• 2002 September- Google new launches with 4000 news sources.
• 2006 September- Google Earth is developed from the UN Environmental Program, Discovery Networks, the Jane Goodall Institute, and the National Park Service.

technoscience for the global state

The webcam has many features that attribute to global cities. A webcam is a camera that it connected to the internet that allows people to have an almost “face-to-face” conversation without having to go anywhere. Webcams have little to no delay time and can have many users at the same time so that many people can be involved in a conversation at once. In global cities, webcams can speed up any interpersonal transaction, which allows for more transactions to occur.

The webcam is a catalyst to the global state. It speeds up any meeting or conference by taking out all the time wasted on travel. In global cities, time is such a precious commodity that the littlest time wasted can mean lots of money. A webcam conversation is much more formal than a phone conversation because it means that all attention has to be paid to the conversation because both participants can see the other. It also allows for large conversations to occur which many people can be a part of. This is easier than with telephones because telephone conversations with many participants, it’s much more difficult to know who’s talking than with a webcam.

The webcam is also a corrosion to the global state. The webcam apart from decreasing the impersonal aspect of a telephone conversation, it on the other side is less personal than a business meeting. With no large amount of time required for a webcam conversation, the importance of the conversation gets brought into question where as a meeting requires both parties to allocate sufficient time. Webcams can also be used to deceive the opposite party because in webcams allow the user to allow the other party to only see what they want them to see. 

technoscience for the miltary

Napalm is one technoscience that supports the military. Napalm in lamest terms is a jelly form of gasoline, which can be sprayed on or bombed on enemy land. It is an extremely cheap and efficient weapon, which can be used in large doses. Napalm consumes and burns enemy crops and infantry with a high tolerance to water so it cannot be doused easily. Napalm was one of the main weapons used in World War II.

Napalm is a catalyst to the military because of its power and efficiency. It allows the user to neutralize any land that enemies inhabit allowing for easy destruction. Napalm could be shot from a plane allowing for minimal casualties from the side using it. In some cases during WWII, enemies would surrender upon seeing planes that use napalm where they usually would stand and fight allowing for quick and easy victory. Napalm is cheap, which means minimal costs for production.

Napalm is a corrosion to the military because of several reasons. It is a highly flammable substance that is easily ignited by accident. Napalm also is an extremely inhumane method of killing, which leaves terrible burns for any who survive its flame. Pictures of napalm victims seen by American citizens reduced support of such a hostile weapon. The use of napalm by opposing forces was a large killer and if it were shot at a base supplying napalm would set it off and would have catastrophic consequences. Also once napalm is ignited, it is difficult to stop the fire and spread of it. Because of Napalms inexpensive nature, it is easy to manufacture by anyone who pleases creating more threats to the military.