Green Bank vs Japan: Technology

Example of Utopia & Dystopia

Jidd, Vorawan Chanvorawit 11-4

Do you prefer to live

without cell phones or not?

Green Bank, West Virginia

The Quietest Town in America

National Radio Quiet Zone

The largest radio telescope located
- Electricity uses can disrupt it
Electronic devices banned by law
- NO cell phones
- Wi-Fi
- Microwave ovens

Amazing Combination

Rural atmosphere + High technology

Residents
143 people live in here
annoyed when see people with cell phone
Being the quietest town
fear of advertising vacation spot
electrosensitive people

Japan

Technology & Tradition

Known in various fields

technology, national culture, etc.
Technology
Electronic product - cell phones, camera, etc.
Scientific - medicine, nuclear power plant

Negative Perspective

Technologies can also strike back Disasters

- Earthquake & Tsunami in 2011
leaking of radioactive
victims still live in temporary houses

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The Atlantic. (2014). The Town Where High Tech Meets A 1950s Lifestyle. Retrieved October
October 15, 2015 from http://www.theatlantic.com/video/index/383477/the-west-virginia-townthat-banned-cell-phones/
Oskin, Becky. (2015). Japan Earthquake & Tsunami of 2011: Facts and Information. Retrieved
October 19, 2015 from http://www.livescience.com/39110-japan-2011-earthquake-tsunamifacts.html