Module 10

Jacob Ready

Module 10

IST 1100

Module 10

     This story was written in 1946 and it was very surprising to me reading it and seeing how much it is like our internet today.  It talks about A logic named Joe it is about a computer that produces Logics which are a lot like our computers we have today. It talks about how the company has a filter on in where the people in the company have access to it but that was until Joe shows up and allows the public to see anything they want to make the searches that they ask for to be more accurate.  I feel like this is almost identical to what we have as our modern internet.  You can literally search anything you want now. It is disgusting thinking about the images that have been posted on the internet today and how so many people can view and search for anything.  We wonder how our criminals are so smart and how they can find ways around the system to receive illegal weapons and build bombs.  Well all of these so called illegal things can be found on their home desktop.  It scares me to think about all the things that can be bought.  After reading this article I learned a lot about how amazing this all used to sound to people back in 1946.  This story would have scared me to death is I had read it back then and to think only 10 years ago we didn’t have cell phones and now I pretty much have a computer in the palm of my hand.  I think that sometimes we would be better off censoring the internet even thought we lose part of our freedom by doing this. But I realize that there is a point the censoring and I think that China is a perfect example of a better way to censor things.  I don’t think we need to take it to North Korea level or anything but just being able to watch what people are searching for would probably be in everyone’s best interest.

     The potential for our internet is beyond what our minds can imagine yet we have the few criminals who like to mess it all up.  But I think overall our internet is going to make us more involved with everyone around us and allow us to be more efficient in everything we do.

Module 13

Jacob Ready

Module 13

2/5/2012

Final module

Module 13

     After taking this class I have learned a lot about how the world’s technology has grown a tremendous amount.  Most of us including myself were not aware of how much we had actually grown.  After the reading we had to do in The World Is Flat I learned a lot about how foreign countries are working in our country on a daily basis from their own country.  I had no idea that most of the time that I call to talk to the call center of a company it is actually someone in India.  Overall the class expanded my horizon a lot and I learned how to understand the internet and how is has grown to the tremendous size that it is now.  Friedman humbled me after reading his book.  All this time I thought that America was far surpassing everyone else on earth in the technology. Now I realize that we are becoming flat and that we are soon going to be on the same playing field.  I believe that this class is very important part of our education process because it makes you think about how much the internet is a part of our lives.  It also helps us be more appreciative of the luxuries that we have and how easy it is to do homework from home and not have to go to class everyday to learn.  You can receive the information you need when class is missed.  This luxury has affected me a lot because of playing golf here at Weber State and trying to get all the information I need to pass each class.

     After thinking about how I would improve this class I couldn’t think of a lot of things that really popped out for me.  The one thing that I can really say I enjoyed was the little article in the middle of our reading of The World Is Flat. I really enjoyed the breaks you gave us from the readings during the middle of the semester it helped keep me focused and ready the read the next section after.  I just wanted to say thank you being so clear and helpful during the semester and that this is one of the best online classes that I have taken and really enjoyed learning about a wired society and Freidman’s book.

Module 12

Jacob Ready

IST 1100

April 1, 2012

Module 12

Module 12

     Bill Joys was a very interesting read for me it was fascinating yet scary in the same way.  He described the engineering, nanotechnology and robotics also known as GNR.  He talked about how it would extinguish us as humans being and how we would lose all control of all robotics and they would become in control of humans.  Mr. Joy found this to be very disturbing obviously but as I have seen in the past about technology it always has defects and problems along the way.  I couldn’t help but think about iron man as I read this article and think about the technologies that they had and to think that maybe that is our future or even the movie I robot with will smith.  The fact that would could have robots take over.

     I think that the paragraph about how robots would be able to have a consciousness and be able to make their own decisions and he talked about how they robots would take over our workforce.  I think that is a little out of reach personally. I believe that his fears are justified and we need to be aware of the technology we are creating and that we need to always be in control.  I think that we as people will always have a high power of thought and it would be very hard replicate our mind power and thought because we are always growing smarter and better every generation. I understand Mr. Joy’s fear of the future but I think we are very long ways away from the technology that he is talking about.  I don’t think that technologies will every take over but I do know that it is huge part of our lives.  I almost have a heart attack if my phone is gone for longer than ten minutes.  I understand that technology is only going to become more and more a part of our lives but I don’t think I will every be able to think about how robots will ever take over our lives and become who is in control.  I don’t think we have to be scared of the technology that is coming out I think we are moving in a positive direction and yes it is going to effect the work force and the way that business are run but humans will always be in control of the technology since we are the ones who are creating it.

module 11

Jacob Ready

4/25/2012

IST 1100

Module 11

Module 11

     The movie that I decided to watch was Eagle Eye and how a master computer is put in charge of the entire U.S and took look over us like a parent.  In the movie cameras are placed around every corner and we are always being watched by some and crime ceases. The computer manipulates the people into doing things that it wants them to do because of a terrorist attack on the computer. There is no way of tracking what it is doing because it was in control of everything and watched over everyone from every camera in the U.S.  I thought it was very interesting to think that a computer could become that smart.  It is very unrealistic that we would have a computer watching all of us from a different camera angle at all times.  The computer was connected to master computer that was located in a secret place where nobody could get in and look at what the computer is doing.  The two people figured out that it was the computer that was doing all this in the end and they knew that they had to somehow get in and shut it down without the computer finding out but the computer had control over all technology so it was a scary moment in the times that we live in.  If this were to happen to us now days we wouldn’t know what to do without out our cell phones or any other type of machinery.  The reason that the computer was messed with a terrorist organization got into the computer system and installed into the computer that would mess with people and try to have other important people killed or the single mother’s son would be killed if she didn’t do exactly as the computer asked her.

     The computers in this movie were very unrealistic  like most movies are with super computers like this but it makes you think about how much we rely on computers and how they can affect our daily lives so much.  Computers and technology in general have become a daily part of our lives and will continue to grow more and more the smart we become.  I just hope we never forget how it was before all the technology so we understand how far we have come and so that we don’t have this movie as a future terrorist attack in the future.

Module 9

Jacob Ready

Module 9

3/4/2012

IST 1100

Module 9

     How the dell computer was created and used is fascinating to me and is one of the most efficiently made and run computer companies around at least from the research I have done.  Last year I took a TBE class that made me research how to buy a computer.  I decided to get a dell me because they literally let you design any and every part of the computer you want you can choose laptop or desktop and how much memory you would like on your computer. I researched it and Dell has 6 global factories where the computers are created and build for each individual customer.  It is amazing to see how far we have come through the world of computers.  Dell is a company that revolves around the customer and doesn’t take the easiest way out by just having a few different kinds of computers but you can literally step by step have your computer exactly the way you want it.

     I feel the Al-Qaeda if they are successful in anything they want to do you have to have a supply chain of some kind.  If there was no supply chain I don’t think anything would ever get done or accomplished.  By the way they accomplish terrorist attacks unfortunately that are very good at getting the job done so they must have a very good supply chain.

     I believe that the curse of oil is mostly have to do with us Americans deciding to run all  our cars and machinery off of oil and we will pay as much money as we need to, to get more of it.  Others countries realize the problem that we have and take full advantage of the fact that we need oil every day.  Oil is a big problem and us as Americans need to make the decision to make a change or keep pay ridiculous prices for the oil that we have to keep shipping in. I think if we don’t change oil is going to become one of the biggest problems we have.

Module 8

Jacob Ready

2/26/2012

Module 8

Module 8

     The most important part of education in today’s society is being connected to the world around us and being able to be connected to others at anytime and anywhere.  Being connected can sometimes make things very complicated yet also very helpful.  Being able to contact my teachers at anytime has been a huge change for me since the time I was younger.  I was never able to call my teacher on her cell phone or even email her when I had a question on my homework assignment.  It has made learning easier and more efficient.  Computers have affected most everything we have to do at our school here at Weber State.  Many of the classes that I have personally taken here at Weber State have been online classes.  These classes in the past have never been capable of being a part of our educations.  I play on the golf team here at Weber State; I’m not able to always be in class so computers have made it easier to receive an education without actually attending a class. I can get the information that is needed of a computer anywhere that has computer access.  Usually at every hotel that we stay at during the trips has access to wi-fi.

  We were asked to explain how computers have been used in my education.  I think computers are the best way of learning.  Like the book we have been reading about computer have leveled everything we no longer are just students in a class and the only way of contacting our teacher or turning in homework is by coming to class.  We now turn in our assignments to an online classroom called connect or blackboard.

     Computers have changed education and are becoming more and more a part of our lives.  Students at my brothers high school are now receiving laptops for the year to reduce the costs of the classes over the years and not having to pay teachers.  Without computers we would never be able to do these types of classes unless the kids had laptops from home.

MOdule 7

Jacob Ready

IST1100

Module 7

2/20/2012

Module 7

After readying the chapters assigned to us I learned that some countries or regions are better at doing some things than other countries or regions because some countries may be better at specific things such as shipping to other by have a port of air strip close to them.   Whereas other may need to have additional cost just to get the materials to those areas where they can be shipped out.  Another advantage is being about to create the good with the raw materials that you have from your home land rather than having to ship materials in you could make or grow them yourselves. Other advantages that are having the work force available to be able to get the work done that is available.

     Self directed consumers are the way that people lead to other businesses through the way they react to the way they feel about a company publically.  Face book for me and many others now has become a huge part of people’s lives and every day I hear about some company that someone got screwed over by and they want to let everyone know that it was not right and want to change the way that people feel about them.  Other way that it is changing is through Twitter I have never personally used twitter but I know that many celebrities do and we are always hearing their opinion on something that they believe is true and you can see the way that people react to that and it can hurt the way that other feel about that company.

     The third and final question was about is globalization mean Americanization? I thought a lot about this and realized that American culture has become a huge part of the global culture but I still think that we will always have cultures around the world that want to keep it the way that they were born into.  Americanization is happening to everyone and people are having to change to make moves up in the business world since America is such a huge part of the global economy.