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Thursday, April 22, 2010

AL4: Social informatics problem

I want to analyze flight management system. For several seconds it should eject and compute a lot of information requested by shipboards - flight coordinates, speed, weather conditions, landing and take-off possibilities, managing landed crafts and placing it properly. It is responsible for hundreds lives and inaccuracy in work can lead to great financial losses.

Research question #1: Is it possible now to find a change for this system? or to manage without?
Map of flights was developed gradually and every changes accumulated the previous knowledge of system. So the currently system is the best protected and designed and accumulate running experience of tens years. Objectively people lived without flights but now delaying flights will cause that many will appear far away from their family not able to reach it in several days. And taking away system will lead to unsafe flights and possible crashes.

Research question #2: How this system influenced on society?
POssibility of longdistance flights brought fast penetration not only for flora and fauna but also it played a significant role in spreading thoughts, bringing the best scientists together for cooperation. Save a lot of time for transportation and together with flight management system, it allowed huge mass of people to discover other countries and cultures, promoted faster integration and globalization, opened ways for travelling to everyone.

Research question #3: Who is influenced with work of this system?
The ones who work with this system straight are air traffic controllers. We can also say that with no doubts it influence upon people using airlines and craft maintenance personnel. But i will also say that technologies that were used for this system are widely used. The main performance algorithms can be used in search engines, control part is adjoining to different types of satellites or communication sattelites. And also even staying at your kitchen you may have no idea that several kilometers above your head there are hundred people flying. And you won't learn it until system is on.

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