Firstly, i will talk about the future of the internet, in 10years time. Given the rate at how internet is moving now, i believe in 2019, everything we do would be related to internet. Perhaps, by then, schools wouldnt even exist physically. Students can just enrol themselves online, and they can start taking a diploma,degree,masters and even PHD. As much as it may sound absurd now, it is definately possible in the future.
In terms of social relations, i believe, in future, people would have lesser and lesser face to face interaction. Even now, chatting within my own family members exist via msn. Considering there is SKYPE, IM, so on and so forth, people would be less and less inclined to meet people physically and they would rather meet people via the internet. I mean, think about how convenient it would be. Seating at home, and getting to know new friends, catching up with your old friends. In recent time, i have been wanting to meet a couple of my friends whom i never meet in a couple of years. Due to work commitment, and my school timetable, we are able to fix a time to meet up. However, because of the internet, we decided to talk online. We used the msn messenger and used the webcam to see each other and talk there. As much as it has it advantageous, i still feel very uneasy over it because of the lack of personal touch. Therefore, i am certain that even though in future, no matter how much social interactions exists in the internet, it will never be able to replace the kind of "feeling" when one person meets another person in real life. Such feeling is unexplainable with words and can only be felt through experience.
In terms of commerce, i am quite certain that in future, less and less people would rent a shop and run a business. Personally if you ask me, if i were to open a shop that sell shirt, jeans and so on, i would definately open an online shop rather than renting a shop outside. Think about the cost incurred that you have to pay for the rental. It will take quite sometimes before one is able to earn back the capital that one invested. In my personal experience as an avid online shopper, i prefer to shop online rather than going to the shop physically. As much as i lack the personal touch, i feel that the convenience of buying goods online is worthwhile losing the personal touch. Imagine ordering something that you love, and make your way to the office, and by the time you get back home, its there in your home. Think about it.
In terms of politics, by then, i believe, people wouldnt even have to vote physically and they can just vote via the internet. Furthermore, the way the candidates send their voice and message across to their supporters is most likely to be from their own personalize websites, blogs and even social networking website, whereby most people would have access to. By doing so, the candidates can save a lot of time travelling and they can the other free time to prepare for their campagin, which will be advantageous to them.
Last but not least, in terms of entertainment, certain real world entertainment activities cannot be replaced with the virtual world. Nonetheless, you have second life, which allows one to fly, something that you are not able to do in real life. So with aspect to entertainment, i feel that, it would not change as drastic as what others might. This is because certain entertainment can only be truly felt in real life while certain entertainment that one dare not do in real life/unable to do in real life, one is able to do it online.
To sum up, in 2019, i am expecting a major change with most of the changes in favour of the internet.
Overall, i felt that i have learnt a lot in COM 125 class. Ever since the first lesson, i learnt that there is something known as the google group. Since then, my group mates and me, have used it for other modules and we find it to be an excellent google tools. I specifically enjoyed the lesson on google tools as i find it very inforrmative and it will be very useful for my future use. There are tools from google that i doubt i will ever know if the lectuerer never introduce it to the class. Furthermore, one of the psychological test that was given in class was also rather accurate (lingusitic, interpersonal .....). The topic on Bloom's taxonomy brought me to a new level of learning. All in all, i feel that i not only gain knowledge relating to the internet, but knowledge to learning as well. I shall stop here as the list would goes on and on if i were to list them all down here.
I would like to end off with
Thanks Mr Abel Choy,for passing on to me these invaluable knowledges and to the other students.
~me~ at 9:39 PM This week i learnt about journalism and the internet.
Personally, i feel its a good thing as it allows us to see certain opinion held by people or reports of an incident that was not reported anywhere. For instance, an incident that has happened yet, it was not fully reported by the news, with current technology, those people who are at the scene or who witness whatever that has happened, can give the first-hand information to reader. For readers, especially those who are catching the news, it is essential to get stories from the different aspect rather than one aspect. We have to listen stories from both side to ensure that what we heard is fair and not bias in a way or another. These news are especially essential as some news might be harmful to people yet not being released, and to get these news up and let people know about it, it might save many lifes.
However,i believe the issue of ethics come into play when one journalist has an information yet he/she has to withhold certain of the information and only releasing some of the information. Take for instance, if one is to report the full news, it would definately not be published by the publisher and that person might get the boot off his jobs. On the other, if he knew the news that he/she is going to report is essential to be reported fully, and yet he/she does not do so, in a way, the perosn is fufiling his work ethics, but what about his moral ethics? This is an ethical dilemma.
Well, with such dilemma, it is really diffcult to make a decision. But with the current technology that allows user to be annoynomous, one could still have his/her work ethics yet fufiling his/her moral ethics. He/she can post the comments or information that he/she wants on the web, and at the same time, sitll reporting what he/she needs to report. As much as this is not the best way out, i feel that this can be a pro or a con, depending on the perspective that you hold.
At the end of the day, i feel the current technology does not give us or anyone any sense of privacy. To me, its anything goes. And with the current technology, anyone can be a journalist, as long as there are readers who read what you are posting.
To sum up, there are pros and cons in the journalism and internet aspect and depending on the perspective that you hold, it can be good or bad. With the internet, anyone can be a journalist, however, at the end of the day, wherever we get our information, be it online from an unknown "journalist" or a newspaper, we have to be critical of what was written and reported.
~me~ at 11:00 PM This week we learnt about the internet and the politics. The main area that i would be covering in my post would be about youths apathetic towards the politics.
Well i think there are a few reasons behind this.
Firstly, most youth are not interested in politics and that given the immaturity age, most of the youth would be talking about games rather than politics. Even if there is to be one youth or a small group of youths, who are really into politics, to prevent himself/herself from being placed in the outgroup of a group, he/she would typically talk about topics that is norm to the youth (i.e games). As time goes by, their interest toward politics would be diminished and their area of interest would shift to what is in the group norm (games).
Secondly, most of the youth, at their given age, would be ineligible to vote for the politician/party that they like. Given that you are not invovlved in something, one would not even bother listening what the politican/party has to say. This is because you know that you heard what the politician/party has to say, but yet you are powerless to support any of the party. Its like, at the end of the day, redudant and waste of time to get yourself involved in the politics as it is something beyond your control. Thus as times goes by, even if one is interested, the interest would be diminished yet again. On the other hand, adults have the power to vote, to them, it is important as a vote makes a different. Furthermore, it in a way, affected the adults, as whenever there is to be an election, there might be new policies brought up by the different politician running the campagin, that might make a different for these adults. The policies could include like example (No Sat job) or any other form of policy, so if the adult is interested in the policies that that particular politician is implementing if he/she gets elected, the adult would vote for that particular politician. So to simply sum this up, it just means that politics affects the adult in a way or another, so most of the adults tend to get involved, while, it means little or none to the youth, and thats why they tend not to be bothered by it.
Finally, in my opinion, politics is something that is not easy to comprehen. Given the ability of a youth, they might lack the knowledge and may not be able to understand what the politician is talking and what the politician has to offer if he/she gets the vote. On the other hands, by adult age, most adults would have no diffculties comprehening such message, and this is also one reason, in my opinion that the minimum age for voting is 21years old.
Given all these different reasons, it is no wonder that youths tend to be apathetic towards politics.
On a side note, my nation's election is occuring somewhere in April this year, and at age 22 this year, i wasnt even called up to go for the election. I only realized that my nation's election is in April when they sent a letter to one of my family member to go for the voting on one of the days in April. Frankly speaking, i cant be bothered by it, as i feel that whatever the case is-whoever the winner is (president), it wouldnt affect me in a way or another. Thus, for me, probably i would be like the youth, being indifferent to politics, perhaphs, things will change when i get older.
~me~ at 3:57 PM Hello...
This week we learnt about multimedia. I thought the idea of E-newspaper is very fascinating, and this happened to be one area that i have never got into, and thus, e-newspaper will be my this week's entry.
Firstly, i think the future lies in I.T related products and e-newspaper is just the begining. Personally, i am wondering, how many would pay for the amount that one has to pay to buy the e-newspaper. I mean, such product would not come cheap and i guess those who would buy such newspaper are the businessmen, who always need to be updated with news and are always on the go, thus this add to their convenience.
The technology of e-newspaper should have been around for sometimes as there are a couple of model available for sale. One of the older version would be Amazon Kindle and Sony eReader. The latest upcoming model would be manufactured by Plastic Logic and the name has yet to be named but it is expected to launch in the United States sometime this year.
The image of the different e-newspaper
From left: Plastic Logic, Sony eReader and Amazon Kindle
credits: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/08/technology/08ink.html
One of the benefit of the e-newspaper in my opinion would be that one would save more in the long run. Putting cost aside, without paper, means one can save the earth as we need not cut down on trees. I feel with both cost advantage and enviornmental advantage, it would be really a plausible plan in the future.
Although it is still costly at the moment, (i.e Amazon Kindle- $260USD about $400 SGD), i feel that in the future when it is a norm that everyone is using an e-newspaper, the price of it would eventually drop.
To sum it, eventually e-newspaper would eleminate the convention newspaper as it is definately more convenient with an e-paper, and with the long term cost saving and enviornmental friendly advantage, the future no doubt lies in e-newspaper.
This is a video on e-newspaper.
~me~ at 10:51 PM