My Internet Video

1. Mica Maynard9 July 2012 13:20

   the conclusion is that more people use the internet than read books which shows that internet has taken over people

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   Mica Maynard9 July 2012 13:30

   my self evaluation
   
   A - aesthetically successful
   C - Flair
   T - Competent
   U - Demonstrates understanding
   P - Competent
   
   WWW. We worked well as a team and our production was original and funny
   
   EBI a better camera

Research Homework

Taking the long view.

Its almost as the fear of unknown with what more things the world has to give us. The introduction of hindsight is something that we as humans can not do, so its as if we are on a journey with the internet and we are unsure where it's going to take us next. He says "that people tend to overestimate the short-term impact of new technologies — and to underestimate their long-term implications.". 

The web isn't the net

People seem to commonly mistake the web as the internet. They are different. He says "Think of the internet as the tracks and signalling, the infrastructure on which everything runs. In a railway network, different kinds of traffic run on the infrastructure — high-speed express trains, slow stopping trains, commuter trains, freight trains and (sometimes) specialist maintenance and repair trains.

Disruption is a feature, not a bug

In the 1970s, Vint Cerf and Robert Kahn, the lead designers, were faced with two difficult tasks: how to design a system that seamlessly links lots of other networks, and how to design a network that is future-proof -> by implementing these twin protocols, Vint Cerf and Robert Kahn created what was essentially a global machine for springing surprises

Think ecology, not economics

Life was now morphing into an ecosystem in which billions of smaller species consume, transform, aggregate or break down and exchange information goods in much smaller units – and in which new gigantic life-forms (Google, Facebook) are emerging.

Complexity is the new reality

Our emerging information environment is more complex – in terms of numbers of participants, the density of interactions between them, and the pace of change – than anything that has gone before. This complexity is not an aberration or something to be wished away: it's the new reality, and one that we have to address.

The network is now the computer

Transition from a world in which the PC really was the computer, to one in which the network is effectively the computer. Data stored on the cloud rather than networks.
A quote from this section is "sleepwalking into this brave new world" which shows we are none the wiser of what's happening around us and we are willing to trust technology

The web is changing

Web has gone through at least three phases of evolution – from the original web 1.0, to the web 2.0 of "small pieces, loosely joined" (social networking, mashups, webmail, and so on) and is now heading towards some kind of web 3.0 – a global platform based on Tim Burners-lee 's idea of the 'semantic web'

Huxley and Orwell are the bookends of our future

Neil Postman predicted that the insights of two writers would, like a pair of bookends, bracket our future. Aldous Huxley believed that we would be destroyed by the things we love, while GeorgeOrwell thought we would be destroyed by the things we fear.

The net has been a profoundly liberating influence in our lives – creating endless opportunities for information, entertainment, pleasure, delight, communication, and apparently effortless consumption

Our intellectual property regime is no longer fit for purpose

Digital technology has provided internet users with software tools which make it trivially easy to copy, edit, remix and publish anything that is available in digital form. As a result, millions of people have become "publishers" in the sense that their creations are globally published on platforms such as Blogger, Flickr and YouTube.