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| COM 125- Introduction to the Internet |
Sad to say this, but this will be my final posting. Time flies, and the semester is coming to an end.Nonetheless, i will share my final thoughts to what i have learnt in this entire semester in Com 125. 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 | |
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