The Power of Knowledge

The Power of Knowledge Our present twenty- quadruplet hours cabinet of curiosities (the Cabinet) is akin to early newfangled representations, which contained a vast range of objects representing the power of forebode creation, in that the Cabinet represents, by dint of its ostentation of volt objects, the power of gentleman knowledge. Each of these objects helps mankind remove and/or enforce knowledge.The order of objects displayed has been designed to reverberate the evolution and utilisation of knowledge an illustration of the desoxyribonucleic acid spiral helix (the building blocks of life) come samples (the return and development of organisms) the electron icroscope (allowing detailed examination of objects) the tab-style computing device (the dissemination and democratisation of knowledge) and the moonlight rock (exploration of space). desoxyribonucleic acid Spiral Helix The deoxyribonucleic acid (desoxyribonucleic acid) helix is the precisely object in the Cabin et which is a representation.Whilst deoxyribonucleic acid exists in e genuinely cell it would need the electron Microscope to render deoxyribonucleic acid visible. Two strands are sh give reprobate into a helix with rods between the strands. How does this represent DNA? Phillip Cohen (2006) describes the helix thus Each strand spells reveal the genetic code as a chemical chain of four chemical letters alled bases adenine (A), thymine (T), cytosine (C) and guanine (G). A,C,G and T sit on the rods between the deuce strands which are made from a sugar whit and a phosphate molecule (Genetics Home Reference, 2013).The discovery of DNA and the evolving knowledge of it, has proved immensely powerful because of what it enables us to do, for example to incur a criminals guilt from a single pig beyond reasonable doubt detect family connections by comparing DNA from two or more(prenominal) people, dead or alive (hence the certainty that it was Richard Ills remain found in Leicester ) and to give the power to restore or eliminate previously incurable diseases, through the mapping of the clement genome.Seed Samples Seed samples appear on the shelves at the seed depository financial institution of The International edible corn and Wheat Improvement Centre, labelled in right-d have got closed plastic containers. The first seed bank was established by N. Vavilov in 1926 outside St. Petersburg, for scientific research and cross-breeding purposes (BBC, 2013). Since then the cosmea has changed dramatically, resulting in an change magnitude consumption of immanent resources. Seed banks around the humanity have assumed a new and very important ole in the preservation of rare and end species of all kinds of plant forms.Today the Millennium Seed entrust in Kew Royal Botanic Gardens is working on the Noahs ark project and has acquired ten percent of the populaces plant species peril by climate change and the expansion of human habitats (Kew, nd). Seed samples p reserved by seed banks bring home the bacon not Just the opportunity for detailed get hold of but as well as the power, opportunity and possibility for approaching generations to preserve most of the plant forms in the world (as we know it now) and to regenerate species to help feed the increment world population. An Electron Microscope This electron microscope is linked to trinity electronic reckoner screens, showing typhoid bacteria in pink.Invented in 1 by German natural philosophers Max Knoll and Ernst Ruska, the electron microscope, though ill at ease(p) and expensive is capable of high magnification and greater resolving power than a light microscope Oohn Innes Centre, 2013). Its cap dexterity to magnify finer details by two million times, revolutionised the studies of the behaviour and treatment of light revolting bacteria (such as typhoid bacteria) and viruses and enables detailed forensic analysis to take place. This object symbolises mans quest not only to under stand his natural environment, but his desire to control and man succession it.The micrographs are artefacts in their own right they net be displayed on their own as scientific evidence. The electron microscope can be displayed alone in a science museum, as a demonstration model for public use or in the Cabinet with the separate four items chosen, to show the prominence and ever-increasing possibilities of technology and science and to embellish mans evolving knowledge. A Tablet Computer Tablet-style computers combine several(prenominal) electronic components, such as a computer, amera and hand-held gaming device, into one convenient portable big money (Martin, 2013) which is affordable for many consumers.The invention of the personal computer allowed individuals to access academic libraries and newspapers/ magazines via the internet (Slaughter, 2010) and (eventually) to communicate with other users, subject to a web connection. A tablet computer allows access to a wealth of i nformation. A search engine acts as a drip to any subject this enables appropriate content to be accessed. The rising popularity of internet-enabled phones, results in thousands more opportunities to access and pretend data being pened up. This technology enables knowledge to be shared and democratised no longer resting with a sign on elite (Slaughter, 2010).The tablet computer incorporates a television camera to allow for the quick transfer of photographs and videos around the world. The camera can challenge and record human behaviours this ability to provide a contemporaneous record of human behaviour has resulted in the power of Governments to dictate the diachronic record of events being publicly challenged. Early computers also helped plot the course to the moon of the Apollo 11 flights in 1969. (Taylor, 2013). A Piece of Rock from the bootleg Moon rocks are of various shapes and sizes and range in age from most 3. billion years up to about 4. 5 billion years old (Muse umwales, 2009). A wealth of previously unknown knowledge has been gained from poring over these rocks, they have been of great value in advance our understanding of the Moon and the history of our solar dodging (Astro. washington, 2009). Scientists believe that earth rocks and moon rocks were once any part of the same body or were in the first place combined before they were formed (Natural history museum, nd). On religious grounds, this could challenge raditional views on Gods formation of the earth.Moon rocks can be exhibited on their own as artworks as natural art that reflect the universe in a microcosmic form in amity with the Chinese tradition of the Philosopher Stones (BBC News, 2012). Moon rocks are invaluable due to their scarcity, given the high cost of returning(a) to the Moon to obtain more. In conclusion, the Cabinet symbolises the galvanise possibilities of human potential and the evolution of knowledge. The discovery of DNA and the creation of the Electron M icroscope enabled, in their turn, turtner discoveries and developments to ake place. Conversely, the collection of seed samples allows for the preservation of what currently exists. 0 The tablet computer encapsulates the democratisation of knowledge, through ever-increasing access to data. 0 The moon rocks represent the ambition to move beyond the world and the infinite possibilities of exploring and understanding our universe. 0The Cabinet is designed to shake up awe in the observer through the display of symbols of the technological and scientific progress that has led to a better understanding of our world and beyond.