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.