Mass Effect 2

In the 21st century, games are one of the most famous things in the world and make up a huge part in technology. Games earn one of the most money in the world. Games are important in today's world, not physically, but mentally. Games help you improve some of your skills. Of course, too much games aren't good but playing some can ease your stress and sometimes help you learn and get creative. Today, we are going to talk about an amazing game called Mass Effect 2. We've done Mass Effect 3 before but this is the sequel to Mass Effect 2. Mass Effect 2 is a futuristic third-person shooter game made by Bioware in 2010. It's about a person who's trying to fight aliens who are trying to kidnap races of all kinds (humans, aliens, etc) to create a weapon that'll destroy every living thing in the Milky Way Galaxy. Mass Effect 2 has won numerous awards. It has been voted as one of the best consoles ever made. It has been also voted Xbox's 14th best game ever made.

In the future, about 200 years later, humans will go all around the Milky Way Galaxy and find other alien races. They have wars with them, make economic businesses with them, live with them and all those stuff. All those wars make humans the dominant race of the Milky Way Galaxy. Every 50,000 years, life in the Milky Way is wiped out by the Reapers. It is now 50,000 years and the Reapers are coming back but need to make a weapon. Commander Shepard, a soldier who previously saved Earth and other planets before, comes back and saves them from kidnappers called "Collectors". He doesn't do this alone. He gathers a team from all around the galaxy to fight the Collectors. This eventually leads to him trying to save the entire galaxy. He goes on a suicide mission and depending on what the player decides, he makes it out alive or is dead with his teammates. It's an amazing game and everyone should try it at least once to experience the epicness of the story and gameplay. It's an amazing game because it's action-packed and has a good storyline. It's also amazing because you can make your own choices which will decide the whole series no matter what.

Lesson Learned: Social Studies!

Social Studies is a very important subject to everyone. You need maths to calculate everything and make shapes and buildings. You need Biology to know how life works and how to go against diseases. You need ICT to be able to create all and help create a better future through technology. Every subject has its purpose. In Social Studies, you learn about the history of humans. Social Studies is important because you need to know how everything started and how cruel war is. To be a diplomat, you need to have good knowledge of history to make arguments and prevent any war possible.

In Social Studies, we are learning about the Cold War and how the World is after World War 2. After Hitler died and World War 2 ended, Germany was left in ruins. Germany was divided into two:  Western Democratic Germany and Eastern Communist Germany. Half a century later, they reunited but had economic problems because of East Germany. After World War 2, America and Soviet Union became the super powers of the world, trying to prevent one another from gaining power. They both fought each other in the Cold War (not exactly fought but was sort of a war), where a nuke was about to happen. If one nuke was launched, the two super powers and their allies would destroy the whole world with nuclear weapons. We learned many of these stuff in Social Studies class. 

Lesson Learned: ICT Class!

Like the Grade 9 always do, we learn new stuff from out awesome teacher, Mr.Pete. Mr. Pete has taught us countless things, bring us into the world of technology, create a huge job potential, and get ready for anything you want to be in the future. He's taught us since Grade 7 and he's taught us alot. He taught us how to use a program called Sketchup, which is a program that allows you to build stuff of your dreams, he showed us the world of technology through blog posts every Monday, and he's teaching us how to use professional stuff like Photoshop, In Design, and Illustrator, which will all be used in the future.

This week, in Mr.Pete's awesome class, we learned a little about Sketchup and a lot about Photoshop, In Design, and Illustrator. He showed us how to show the measurements of our restaurant. We took a picture of it and put it in Photoshop to make some changes. He's still teaching us a few more things but we've learned how to make your stuff more stylish and awesome. We placed labels and added colors to the background. We put that into InDesign and using Illustrator and Photoshop, we managed to make a cool border. This is all thanks to the awesome wonders of Mr.Pete. 

Transcendent Man

Last week, in Mr.Pete's ICT class, we watched a video called Transcendent Man. This video took about an hour and a half and it was one of the most important technological videos I've ever seen. This video did not just explain about the new technologies today and how it's improving, but how future will change, how future will deal with technology, how technology will improve and maybe even kill lives, and much more. This was a video based on the ideas of a man named "Ray Kurzweil".This man started his young age successfully, getting Bachelor of Science degree in MIT. When he was young, he owned successful companies. One of them was selling computer programs. Now he's a futurist - a person who thinks about the future and tries to predict the future.

Ray Kurzweil stated that the world would change in many ways. One example was that humans would eventually become synthetic and less biological. We would become much more like robots than ordinary human beings. Kurzweil thinks this is inevitable and there are many debatable topics about this. He thinks this is possible because in the future, they'll be able to create nanobots, which can effectively live on our red blood cells. Even if they don't live in our body, on the outside world, there will be robots. Now many people agree and disagree with this. Some people think this will be extremely effective and will help humankind get smarter and possibly improve life. Some people think synthetic beings will look down on humans eventually and will look at us like we're insects and kill us. Both of these are possibilities, that's why for now, they're not changing humankind.

This is important to remember because this could be the changing factor of your life, your children's lives, your grandchildren's life, and so on. Technology has made it easy for mankind. It also proved to be dangerous and used for business. People today have computers to play games, watch their favorite videos, listen to music, chat, and all those stuff all because of technology. In a hundred years time, they can probably just think it in their heads and they'll get the full song instantly. That's how rapid technology is going to evolve. In my opinion, the nanobot thing is all great but why would we need to improve technology so fast? We humans cannot get to the point that we're so lazy that we don't need to type to search up something. Maybe if it were to help our body function work better, it'll be fine but unlimited age is NOT acceptable. People have to die so that new generations can come and live or else it'll be overpopulated (which the world ALREADY is).

I've learned that human technology is going to improve and change everyone's life and it cannot be changed. I learned that everything is possible with technology and technology will go against nature's law such as death and survival of the fittest. I also actually learned that nanobots do exist and can prove to be very useful, but would effectively increase the laziness of humans and would be too easy to do anything. All the smart people, all the musicians, and all these people with special talents that you look up to have special talents and with these technologies, all that would be pointless.So in my opinion, we should wait a lot longer, until we find another planet that humans can live on. When we reach the point to be able to go to another planet and live there, we can certainly try combining humans with machines.