The essay exhibit that stood out to me most was Mick Galbraith's. His essay exhibit was about facts in social media and how some of them are true but many people take everything they see on social media and brand it to be completely true 100% of the time. The part of his presentation that stuck out most to me was the political aspect. He talked about how politics and social media collide a lot. I completely agree, nowadays you constantly see things about politics on social media rather than the news and what you see is more often than not biased and unreliable. Mick's concept was very fascinating and I encourage you all to ask him about it if you see him.
An archive preserves valuable memorabilia, pictures, and other forms of media by grouping them into one accessible and searchable source. This is different from a collection, because a collection is less focused on the rarity of the items collected. Being avid hip hop listeners, our tribe has decided to make a 1990s Hip Hop music recording/rarities archive. With its roots in the late 70s and throughout the 80s, Rap began to blossom into the genre of music we know and love today in the 90s. Though much of the genre’s classics are still frequently played and well known, there are many hidden treasures that exist out there for rap’s diehard fans. Knowing this, we need do need to set some parameters for what we would consider rare enough for our archive. The thing that our tribe decided on was, if the piece of music can be found on Apple Music (with a library of 20 million songs), or Spotify (with a library of 7 million songs). For example, one of the pieces we would archive would be the 2pac song: Runnin’. For you hip hop lovers reading this, no we don’t mean the very popular and accessible original version of this song. Rather we would obtain a recording of the remix of this song. This is one of the few songs in which The Notorious B.I.G. and 2pac were recorded together. In this era, the East Coast West Coast feud within Hip Hop was at its peak, and therefore it was uncommon for a California rapper like 2pac to release music with a New York rapper like Biggie. Another example of the sort of music we would have is Heavy D and Notorious B.I.G.s’ song Jam session. This song was only released on the 1994 NBA game NBA Jamz, and is packed full with great 1990s sports and pop-culture references. In addition to music, rap memorabilia of the era would also be included. One idea our group had was related to the action figure released with MF Doom’s Operation Doomsday album from 1994. (This was also the album released with a scratch and sniff cover though smell can’t be digitized, and it will not be in our archive). We figured we could take the MF Doom super villain action figure digitized, so that it could be 3D printed at any point. In addition to this, our archive would have much more included as well. 
Ray Kurzweil is an extraordinary man. He was the first to create text to speech technology which was extremely ahead of the times. Kurzweil wrote a book with various different predictions of the future of technology. 25 of his predictions came true! One of them being that he predicted a computer would defeat a world chess champion at chess by 1998, and in 1997 his prediction came . He believes that the person that will live to age 200 is living today. Our response to Kurzweil is that, he is incredible. We agree with his predictions and we have good reason because a lot of his predictions are very true. The ability for humans to live forever may not be in our lifetime but we are not against the thoughts that it is possible.
This book is built on the ideas introduced in Kurzweil’s previous books. These books are, “The Age of Intelligent Machines,” and “The Age of Intelligent Machines.” In this book, Kurzweil describes his law of accelerating returns which predicts an exponential increase in technologies such as , genetics, nanotechnology, robotics, and artificial intelligence. He says that once that the Singularity has been reached, machine intelligence will be infinitely more powerful than all human intelligence combined. The singularity is also the point where machines intelligence and human merge. 