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.