Science+&+Technology

media type="file" key="rennaissance imovie.mov" width="300" height="300" Reed/Alex/Nick's Response to the expert: Reed //Do you think that the people of Calgary would go out side of their box and try to achieve something great like learning or helping?//
 * Q:** During the Italian Renaissance we saw how people like Leonardo de Vinci were thinking outside of the box. For example he would secretly dig up the dead and dissect them to learn about the human body. This was against the church’s faith and so Leonardo knew that if he was caught he would be burned at the stake.


 * A:** “I think they would,” says Mr. Robinson. He says that Calgary has always had a culture of innovation. He also says that we are risk takers, especially in the oil industry. We spend lots and lots of money to drill a hole for oil and then there’s nothing. Many people are working very hard to find the best places where there might be oil. Calgary oil companies are also not depending on the government to help fund their drilling. Science is not trying to prove something right, it is trying to prove something wrong, says Mr. Robinson. Europe is getting all the info on the big hydrogen collider. It may give them info but it may not give them money.

Alex //In Calgary do you see scientists try to prove older theories wrong?//
 * Q :** During the time of the Italian Renaissance we saw how geniuses like Galileo Galilee questioned what the Catholic Church had said. For Example, when he invented the telescope, and then observed the stars and other planets. By doing this he saw that all of the planets rotated around the sun, and that earth rotated 360 degrees around its axis in one day. This also proved that the earth was not the center of the universe.

Specifically, do we see that theories of science and astronomy that are over a specific time period old try to be proven differently? Or do we just reassure that it is the same, as from the older information?
 * A:** “Scientists are always trying to prove people wrong,” says Mr. Robinson. “ That s the nature of science.” He also explains how some scientists say that, that is pretty much what science is, proving people wrong. “ You can never prove a theory right, you can get evidence that suggests that your theory is right.” By this, things are always getting better. This is why we can always have the top technology, and scientists are always finding new right things. For example Steve jobs, always making new inventions that help people in their everyday lives.

**Q:** The Renaissance was a time of great change partly because Italy was in the middle of the Silk Road trade route which got Italy’s ideas coming and going a a very quick speed

//If we had a big trade route going through Calgary would we have exchanged ideas like the renaissance did with the Silk road?//

A: Mr. Robinson said “well these days of course you don’t have to have people physically moving through you and trade routes its just information so boy its such a different world now where is you can get wherever you are and is there anything like that anywhere else in the world where there is a silk road of the 21st century but that’s a good question because it certainly did change Europe with the contact with China and the cross-pollination between cultures but I don’t know if we kind of have the same thing but now with the internet and everybody the whole world is connected so we don’t have any special benefit than anyone else has in terms of being able to access information and ideas and connections its it’s important that we lie everywhere else has high speed connection like everybody else but we kinda do in place in world where they don’t have that are suffering and are at a disadvantage so I’m sure we’re probably about as well set up for that as anybody could be, that’s a good question I never really thought about it because there isn’t really a modern silk road equivalent is there I mean what be like what would exist that would be the same kinda thing I mean we move physical goods around but now it’s the ideas that are information and that’s just movin around everywhere anybody that has a connection that has access to that places like China there kinda restricting information now that’s where that starts to get to be a bit of an issue some governments like that say we don’t want you to have that information we don’t want for you to tell that world what’s going on and we don’t want you to know whats going on around the world and that’s when people start to have a disadvantage”

I respond to the question: Does Calgary have the necessary conditions for science and technology to emerge to help create a renaissance city? I think Calgary does have the necessary means to be a Renaissance city because of Leonardo de Vinci. Leonardo was the inventor of many things like the tank, submarine, helicopter and parachute. Calgary is very similar to Leonardo de Vinci because Calgary is the city where the ever-popular Smart Board is constructed. “In Calgary here we have I think a culture for risk taking and bold thinking,” says Mr. Robinson, a scientist working in Calgary. When asked the question: Do you think that the people of Calgary would go out side of their box and try to achieve something great like learning or helping? Mr. Robinson replied: “I think they would” He states that Calgary is a city of risk taking mainly in the oil business. "We spend lots and lots of money to drill a hole for oil and then there’s nothing." Mr. Robinson states. This is proof that Calgary has the means to be a Renaissance city because of our way to build great things.
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In response to whether Calgary possess the necessary conditions for technology to emerge to make it a renaissance city David Robinson believes that “but I don’t know if we kind of have the same thing but now with the internet and everybody the whole world is connected so we don’t have any special benefit than anyone else has in terms of being able to access information and ideas and connections”. He basically believes that if there were to be a silk road of the 21st century internet wouldn’t be invented for there to be a silk road in our time because everybody’s connected and nobody wants to travel through people and exchange ideas because they can just turn to the internet. He states “its it’s important that we lie everywhere else has high speed connection like everybody else but we kinda do in place in world where they don’t have that are suffering and are at a disadvantage so I’m sure we’re probably about as well set up for that as anybody could be, that’s a god question I never really thought about it because there isn’t really a modern silk road equivalent is there I mean what be like what would exist that would be the same kinda thing I mean we move physical goods around but now it’s the

In response to the whether Calgary possesses the deep thinking, intrigued people (scientists) to make it a Renaissance city, Mr. Robinson believes that there are always scientists trying to prove other scientists wrong. He also thinks that we do have the conditions as well, because we have the people. He also describes how it is the nature of science to prove things wrong. In this sense, he thinks that there is no right answer. He says how you can have evidence that your answer is correct, but there is never a right answer. There is always something out there to find or see. Always something to prove wrong. Also he describes how people with insights, always have new insights, and they find new ideas. This is how more new inventions are made, and this is how it always goes.
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