Introduction to the internet
Name: Felicia Goh
Class: B
Instructor: Abel Choy
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Thursday, April 9, 2009
The final post for the semester.
Over the last lesson, we discussed the future of the internet. How the internet's revolution will change as time goes by and how it would influence and impact our lives.
Below is a video by Dr. Vinton G. Cerf, Google's vice president who shares his view on Google's perspective on the future of the internet.
Also, here's another video which im sure of you many of us have seen before, if not from other blogs but also in another class in school.
This video did indeed showcase on of the vast possibilities about the internet's future. But watching the video however, brought about a sense of fear within me. How is it that a gadget such as that could get a "6th sense?" that we'd then know EVERYTHING there is to know about ANYTHING around us? Isnt that scary?
It reminded me of that movie i Robot by Will Smith where Robots took over the world.
Would we one day be taken over by the future of the internet's technology? Would we one day be so over-reliant on technology that we can no longer depend on our own ability to make sound decisions? and with the internet, everything becomes virtual. With virtual reality coming closer and closer to our reality, one day, we might really mix that all up. Which is scary dont you think?
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How quickly this module and this semster comes to an end. I've really learnt a lot from this class, about the origins of the internet, the social tools which the internet is able to provide us, the impacts of learning online through blooms taxomony, and everything else that is now done online like jounrlism, politics and shopping just to name a few.
This class was made so much more interesting through the presentations of our fellow classmates who shared their knowledge with us as well as the videos and sharings by the lecturer.
A class which I previouisly thought to be dull became one that was insightful and relavent to my life as well as my future after this course comes to an end. It proved to be relvant that many of us have taken for granted and this course has shown its relavance to us, the students.
With that, Thank You =)
Over the last lesson, we discussed the future of the internet. How the internet's revolution will change as time goes by and how it would influence and impact our lives.
Below is a video by Dr. Vinton G. Cerf, Google's vice president who shares his view on Google's perspective on the future of the internet.
Also, here's another video which im sure of you many of us have seen before, if not from other blogs but also in another class in school.
This video did indeed showcase on of the vast possibilities about the internet's future. But watching the video however, brought about a sense of fear within me. How is it that a gadget such as that could get a "6th sense?" that we'd then know EVERYTHING there is to know about ANYTHING around us? Isnt that scary?
It reminded me of that movie i Robot by Will Smith where Robots took over the world.
Would we one day be taken over by the future of the internet's technology? Would we one day be so over-reliant on technology that we can no longer depend on our own ability to make sound decisions? and with the internet, everything becomes virtual. With virtual reality coming closer and closer to our reality, one day, we might really mix that all up. Which is scary dont you think?
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How quickly this module and this semster comes to an end. I've really learnt a lot from this class, about the origins of the internet, the social tools which the internet is able to provide us, the impacts of learning online through blooms taxomony, and everything else that is now done online like jounrlism, politics and shopping just to name a few.
This class was made so much more interesting through the presentations of our fellow classmates who shared their knowledge with us as well as the videos and sharings by the lecturer.
A class which I previouisly thought to be dull became one that was insightful and relavent to my life as well as my future after this course comes to an end. It proved to be relvant that many of us have taken for granted and this course has shown its relavance to us, the students.
With that, Thank You =)