Wednesday, February 24, 2010
Could Jurassic Park be a reality?
Could Jurassic Park be a reality? Could Extinction be the thing of the past? Could we resurrect Dinosaurs in a living state of being? If you recall the movie Jurassic Park was about resurrecting the Dinosaurs. The plan was to make a living dinosaur through DNA. Later their idea was to make a park in which people could view these Dinosaurs. Can you imagine living in a world filled with these creatures? Could we use new technology to recreate the past? And if so would this be dangerous for us humans? Many of the dinosaurs would be meat eaters and be predators of humans. Could we have a Dinosaur Park and view the Dinosaurs much like we do the Indianapolis Zoo here in Indy? I am not talking mechanical Dinos either. But, the real genuine article.
Well According to another 60 Minutes Episode it may be possible to recreate the extinct. Scientist have made a breakthrough in discovering the genetic coding of animals. One in particular species is the Wooly Mammoth. According to this video it would be fairly easy to get the genetic coding or DNA from an old hair sample. Better yet find the extinct animal frozen in snow and ice and use the tissue to break the genetic coding. You may have heard of the cloning of a sheep or animals. Scientists now have discovered a way to change the DNA Genetic Material in extinct's family counter parts to recreate them. They suggest reconstructing the DNA Genetic Material in eggs so that extinct species that have been gone for millions of years can relive again! How far is going too far? Is this playing God? Will we be killed by Robots or Dinosaurs? This brings up a strong concern of mine. Yet again my point is that most of Hollywood at the time might seem very farfetched, yet some of the technologies seen in movies are now becoming possibilities. This kind of scares me a little bit. Could we be destroying ourselves here or are we really making our own lives better? I think with anything if they are going to do this that they need to set limitations or be protective of the technology in which they have invented. I wouldn't want the human race to become extinct.
What kind of game are we playing with? In class we talked about finite vs. infinite rules. We know in basketball the finite rules, but this is something different. I would say this is dealing with infinite rules. I do not think we know what we are dealing with here. The rules are unfamiliar. Are we breaking the rules of extinction here? What is breaking the rules? Will breaking the rules of extinction change the world? And if so how will it change the world? Is breaking the rules here a bad or good thing? Could this be the solution to extinction? Is extinction ok or not ok? Why or why not is it ok? What does everyone else think? What are some of your ideas?
Link to 60 Minutes Video relating to this blog.
http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=6078982n&tag=cbsnewsSidebarArea.0
Could a New Energy Source Change the World?
I swear you can get the best ideas for blogging when you watch 60 Minutes. They have a lot on there about new inventions and things coming up. I saw on 60 Minutes the other day that one man invented a new energy source. It is called the "Bloom Box". The guy who invented it is K.R. Sridhar. It will require no outside sources. Just think if we did away with all of the Nuclear and Coal Powered Power Plants how much cleaner our environment would be. Also just think that our houses would no longer be required to be next to one of them. You could build your house literally anywhere. The disadvantage of solar power is you need the sun in order to power. This will require no sun to power our homes and businesses. Can this box really do it all? According to some studies it can! I think this opens up much in the way of possibilities.
K.R. Sridhar is an entrepreneur. His project was funded by a guy who loves finding individuals that want to change the world. Isn’t that what we all in a since want to do or will do? How it works is you compact beach sand into squares and you coat both sides with a special blue and green paint. Only this guy knows what the formula is and how it works. You stack them up and these babies put together can construct a great amount of energy. They could literally power a whole house or even a whole company such as Google or eBay. Google was his first client and is already using this form of technology. He originally developed the technology for colonization on Mars. I think this is a cool and different idea. It really will change the way power is created in homes and in commercial buildings. It also claims to hold power and be able to regenerate itself. Isn’t that also our complaint about perhaps the power might go out? We had mentioned in class about if only we could find a power source that would be good for like 400 years. Well how about forever. That works for me! How about you? The power from what I understand actually regenerates itself. Therefore, he has produced a never ending energy source. Not to mention that the materials used to create the object are natural and plentiful. What does everyone else think?
Links
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2010/02/18/60minutes/main6221135.shtml
http://www.dailytech.com/article.aspx?newsid=17752
Wednesday, February 17, 2010
Could Holographic Video be the next Twitter?
What is next after Twitter? Personally, I do not like twitter because you cannot upload photos or really blog. All you can do is put in status lines and have people follow you and leave comments. Twitter to me is nothing more than a way for people to stock you. I worry about privacy and potential employers getting a hold of the information and not hiring you because of what is being posted. Myspace is ok, but I have noticed that there is no real way to have a multiple people conversation. Some of the pages seem to be hard to open because they have so much junk on there. It might be nice to have multiple pages instead of one. I think Facebook is the best social networking site so far in my opinion. There also seems to be so many sites out there that you can link to by using Facebook. Other social networking sites I have heard of are Friendster, Hi5, Yahoo, Classmates.com, etc. I would have to say that Facebook, Myspace, and Twitter are the top 3 in terms of popularity.
In my opinion, the next dimension of Twitter is Holographic Video. In other words, we will be meeting people by 3D or 4D video images. The people will appear as though they are standing right before your eyes, but they are actually located in a completely different part of the world. People will have the ability to be right there beside you without really being there in person. They can not harm you because they are not physically there. I see people beginning to have virtual experiences with other people who are really not there. I see this technology being brought into the Military, Business World, Schools, and even the homes in which we live in. There will be no use for computers of today's standards. Everything will be virtual. You will be able to see products, people, etc. without it being there physically in person. In the Dating World you could go out on a date with someone without having to actually meet in person. You could literally see the person virtually. You could eat, talk together, see movies together, and other experiences. The only thing you could not do, that you can do in person would be have the physical capability to touch that other person. What might be scary is you could make a home video of a person that might pass on later. You could see them like they were there for real, but it would actually be an artificial 3D or 4D video recording of that person. They would look and appear to be there, but they really are not there at all. If you were to reach out and touch the person all you would feel is air.
The Science Fiction Technology seen on Star Wars or Star Trek may not be Science Fiction after all.
http://www.allanjosephbatac.com/blog/2008/05/star-wars-hologram-communication-now-a-reality.html
Below is a really cool video I found of how Holographic Video Technology maybe possible in a not too distant future.
What does everyone else think of my discovery?
http://www.musion.co.uk/Cisco_TelePresence.html
In my opinion, the next dimension of Twitter is Holographic Video. In other words, we will be meeting people by 3D or 4D video images. The people will appear as though they are standing right before your eyes, but they are actually located in a completely different part of the world. People will have the ability to be right there beside you without really being there in person. They can not harm you because they are not physically there. I see people beginning to have virtual experiences with other people who are really not there. I see this technology being brought into the Military, Business World, Schools, and even the homes in which we live in. There will be no use for computers of today's standards. Everything will be virtual. You will be able to see products, people, etc. without it being there physically in person. In the Dating World you could go out on a date with someone without having to actually meet in person. You could literally see the person virtually. You could eat, talk together, see movies together, and other experiences. The only thing you could not do, that you can do in person would be have the physical capability to touch that other person. What might be scary is you could make a home video of a person that might pass on later. You could see them like they were there for real, but it would actually be an artificial 3D or 4D video recording of that person. They would look and appear to be there, but they really are not there at all. If you were to reach out and touch the person all you would feel is air.
The Science Fiction Technology seen on Star Wars or Star Trek may not be Science Fiction after all.
http://www.allanjosephbatac.com/blog/2008/05/star-wars-hologram-communication-now-a-reality.html
Below is a really cool video I found of how Holographic Video Technology maybe possible in a not too distant future.
What does everyone else think of my discovery?
http://www.musion.co.uk/Cisco_TelePresence.html
Cisco On-Stage Holographic TelePresence Experience from Musion Systems on Vimeo.
Can you imagine watching the Super Bowl in your own living room by using this form of technology? Holographic Video Technology could combine social medium on the web with TV. You could actually see the football players and it would almost be like they are right there in your living room in person. Can you imagine watching Disney movies in Holographic Perception? Could Sesame Street and Barney be real life for your child? We could even design and make up people that are not real and appear before your eyes as if they are actually real life people standing before you. Could this also be the next dimention of Horror films and Haunted Houses?
On-line Dating
Since last weekend was Valentine's Day, I wanted to take a little time to write something about On-line Dating. Is On-line Dating a good idea or a bad idea? Are people truly interested in finding that special someone or are they more into playing games? Do these On-line Dating relationships really work?
I have noticed that for some it is about how much money you can get out of a person or use them for other reasons. People have been known to ask total strangers for money by way of pretending they are interested in a person. These are called scams. I have heard meeting people on-line can be dangerous. How can Dating Sites be safer? How can technology really help with the concept of Love? I have heard horror stories of girls getting rapped or much worse killed. Do these Dating Sites take responsibility for these actions? On the other hand I have heard of two people meeting on-line, meeting in person and falling in love instantly. They even get married. They simply use the On-line Dating sites as a tool to meet other singles out there. Which is fine in my opinion, but how far is too far? I have heard of sites taking the concept of love to extremes. I seen the other day of a concept called getting married on one of these social network sites. In other words, they get married on-line. Can you truly be in love with a person with whom you never met? Do On-line Dating Services really work?
Some questions come to my mind when talking about On-line Dating. What does the future hold for On-line Dating? How will technology be a part of it? Is Dating On-line Sites like Shopping Sites? Are you shopping for a boyfriend or girlfriend? How is Social Networks different from On-line Dating Sites? What are the best On-line Dating Services? Does On-line Dating really work? What are the setbacks? What are the advantages? Who invented On-line Dating? How long has On-line Dating been around? How can we protect ourselves from scams? How much is too much information?
My parents have been married for nearly 38 years. Before there was On-line Dating services there use to be a concept in which women would write to service men overseas who were lonely. They would be given a name of a service man in which seems to be looking for the same things that the woman would be. The snail mail, mailing address would be handed to a woman and she would get a chance to write to a lonely service man overseas. This is what happened with my mom and dad. My mom was given my dad's name and address. They started writing to each other and fell in love. With On-line Dating, does this concept really work? You are still writing letters to one another to see if there is a connection there. I am very curious to see what others think about this concept.
Something I have noticed in the past is that people stayed together more. In today's world it is very much unheard of for a couple to stay married for 50 years let’s say. In today's world I have noticed if something does not work most people throw it out or get rid of it. The same concept can be applied to relationships. We have become very much a disposable society.
In a way I see it as a good thing because like me I am busy all of the time and really don't have time to go out and meet people. I am not really much of a bar person. I ask the question. What does the future hold for On-line Dating? How will this advance? I have noticed that some on-line dating sites are considering videos, voice recordings, etc. to enhance this experience. What will be the next dimension of On-line Dating?
I have noticed that for some it is about how much money you can get out of a person or use them for other reasons. People have been known to ask total strangers for money by way of pretending they are interested in a person. These are called scams. I have heard meeting people on-line can be dangerous. How can Dating Sites be safer? How can technology really help with the concept of Love? I have heard horror stories of girls getting rapped or much worse killed. Do these Dating Sites take responsibility for these actions? On the other hand I have heard of two people meeting on-line, meeting in person and falling in love instantly. They even get married. They simply use the On-line Dating sites as a tool to meet other singles out there. Which is fine in my opinion, but how far is too far? I have heard of sites taking the concept of love to extremes. I seen the other day of a concept called getting married on one of these social network sites. In other words, they get married on-line. Can you truly be in love with a person with whom you never met? Do On-line Dating Services really work?
Some questions come to my mind when talking about On-line Dating. What does the future hold for On-line Dating? How will technology be a part of it? Is Dating On-line Sites like Shopping Sites? Are you shopping for a boyfriend or girlfriend? How is Social Networks different from On-line Dating Sites? What are the best On-line Dating Services? Does On-line Dating really work? What are the setbacks? What are the advantages? Who invented On-line Dating? How long has On-line Dating been around? How can we protect ourselves from scams? How much is too much information?
My parents have been married for nearly 38 years. Before there was On-line Dating services there use to be a concept in which women would write to service men overseas who were lonely. They would be given a name of a service man in which seems to be looking for the same things that the woman would be. The snail mail, mailing address would be handed to a woman and she would get a chance to write to a lonely service man overseas. This is what happened with my mom and dad. My mom was given my dad's name and address. They started writing to each other and fell in love. With On-line Dating, does this concept really work? You are still writing letters to one another to see if there is a connection there. I am very curious to see what others think about this concept.
Something I have noticed in the past is that people stayed together more. In today's world it is very much unheard of for a couple to stay married for 50 years let’s say. In today's world I have noticed if something does not work most people throw it out or get rid of it. The same concept can be applied to relationships. We have become very much a disposable society.
In a way I see it as a good thing because like me I am busy all of the time and really don't have time to go out and meet people. I am not really much of a bar person. I ask the question. What does the future hold for On-line Dating? How will this advance? I have noticed that some on-line dating sites are considering videos, voice recordings, etc. to enhance this experience. What will be the next dimension of On-line Dating?
Thursday, February 4, 2010
Thoughts of Class 02/04/2010
According to Dictionary.com Socioeconomics means the study of the interrelation between economics and social behavior. Then I looked up economics and according to Dictionary.com it says that it is the science that deals with the production, distribution, and consumption of goods and services, or the material welfare of humankind.
I had never thought of it that way, but it is true. We are becoming a very social society. I myself hardly watch TV anymore. As I use to watch it all the time. I like having a conversation with you on a one to one basis. I like finding what someone likes or dislikes. I guess that is how you befriend someone. It is how you connect with someone on any kind of relationship level. Whether it be a friendship, teacher, student, doctor, lover, etc?
I have heard of the idea that in the future products will find you and you will not be looking for the products. Although I might disagree a little about the statement "you will not be looking for products". It is hard to imagine not still looking for a product that perhaps a friend of yours has and you would like it for yourself. I think I mentioned this earlier that perhaps someday there might be a chip built inside of you that will send electronic messages to billboards and other advertisement means to gear towards your needs. For example I use yet again the example if you like strawberry ice cream perhaps ads about strawberry ice cream will appear. Perhaps something like strawberry bubblegum will appear or something similar to strawberry icecream.
My response to Broadcasting vs. Socialism is this … To me someone yelling their lungs out with a megaphone on top of a building is one sided or like TV is sort of one sided. It is the message transferring to a group of people, but there is no response back. But if you consider feedback in terms of emails received about a particular show then I would consider that to be Socialism.
Socialism to me is feedback and responding back and forth about something. Where as Broadcasting is one sided. It is making a public announcement to the universe. Sort of like the President coming on TV and announcing the Haiti earthquakes. We are not talking to the President back and forth about it. Although when two people talk about the President’s Speech about Haiti Earthquakes then I would consider that to be Socialism.
In response to the question; Why would you trust your friends over an advertisement? It is simple! In Advertising they often will lie about the product so that they sell it to you. In one of my former blogs I mention about the exercise industry. They try to sell you all of these phoney pills that claim to make you skinny, but they really don’t. They really don’t care as long as someone is buying the product. It is all about marketing and getting customers to buy their product. A friend’s opinion about the product is much more valuable. Why? Because in most cases they are users of the product. Basically, advertisements lie to sell the product. Friends are more likely to tell you the truth as what to do they have to gain to lie to you about a product? Why would they lie in the first place? If a friend lies to you than you have bigger problems I think. I might question then why are you friends with this person if they are going to lie to you. A real friend is someone you trust.
In response to the question; What is News? News to me is anything that is information about something. To me there is personal news like what is going on in your personal life and then there is worldly news like the earthquakes in Haiti that everyone is talking about. Is “I got up in the morning and did this today” news? I would say yes! It is not probably going to make the headlines in the newspaper, internet or TV, but it might make it to a few comments on some of the various social networks sites. If you were to say something on twitter; Would it be considered News? Yes, would be my response once again. If someone is interested in what you are doing they are the recipients of the news. You are giving that information about what you are doing.
If you look it up at Dictionary.com the definition of News you will receive the following.
1.
a report of a recent event; intelligence; information: His family has had no news of his whereabouts for months.
2.
the presentation of a report on recent or new events in a newspaper or other periodical or on radio or television.
3.
such reports taken collectively; information reported: There's good news tonight.
4.
a person, thing, or event considered as a choice subject for journalistic treatment; newsworthy material. Compare copy (def. 5).
In my opinion, I think we are becoming Movie Stars or famous people! We have our own poporotizi or fans! What I mean by that is our so called friends on many of the social networks are interested in what we are doing. So perhaps you are not a singer or a movie star, but people are into your life and what you have to say. I know in some cases many people are always interested in what I have to say. I seem to have a very creative and thoughtful mind. Some people seem to be attracted to that. Not to sound vain or anything, but usually people are attracted to good looking people. Now you might say what is a good looking person? Beauty is in the eye of the beholder is my response to that question. But, perhaps the magazines sitting on the newsstands actually tell us what is beautiful and what is not.
Does News have to be an impact? All news is an impact whether it be big or small in my opinion. If a person is reading it, it will create some sort of feeling inside. To me any information at all given and someone receives it is news. News for you could be taken as what interest do you have? I know myself I am more likely to read something if I am interested in the subject matter. If I am not interested I find it very boring. I know in school they would give us all of these text books and things of which I was not interested. I sometimes would fall asleep while reading it. Why? Because my brain wants to shut off. It is just not interested and therefore just does not want to comprehend it.
In response to Wikapedia, trust issues, and editng content and is it like a newspaper? I would have to agree with all of the statements made during class. I would say if you are not really sure if it actually the truth or if it is accurate I would say get a second opinion. Much like if your doctor would say you had cancer you could always ask another doctor and they might say something completely different. The beauty of the net is that there are so many sites doing the same things. I am sure there are other sites that act much like Wikapedia and you could verify the information. If you have found the information to be the same on different sources than my conclusion would be this must be right.
What is society and being social? For me society is the people and world in which we live in today. Being social is just that being social and talking to other people. It is called networking in the business world. Sometimes it is not what you know, but who you know.
Being Social and Being Public is about the same thing as Broadcasting vs. Socialism. Broadcasting and being Public about something are really the same things. Being Social and Socialism are the same things as well. Being Social interprets a response or interaction between two people or groups of people. Public is one sided. It is kind of like a dictatorship. The news on TV for example is being Public. I cannot talk back to the person on TV. Well I could but that person is not going to hear what I have to say. LOL
In my opinion; “Will you be my acquaintance?” does not sound as good as; “Will you be my friend?” It just sounds more like you want to connect with that person or reach out. Acquaintance almost sounds like you are stuck up and have no desire to get to know me. I guess what I am saying is the word “friend” sounds friendlier.
I looked this up at Dictionary.com
1.
a person attached to another by feelings of affection or personal regard.
2.
a person who gives assistance; patron; supporter: friends of the Boston Symphony.
3.
a person who is on good terms with another; a person who is not hostile: Who goes there? Friend or foe?
4.
a member of the same nation, party, etc.
5.
(initial capital letter ) a member of the Religious Society of Friends; a Quaker.
In response to the Promo for on-line advertisement video we watched in class and is that advertising? I would say yes! The video seems very believable. It makes a connection with what I already know about the net and the world in which I live in today. It is very persuasive and I think it does a good job with its message. In a sense I think it plays on some ideas of what most people already know. Are the percentages accurate? Well perhaps the percentages are not accurate, but it is very believable. It just doesn’t sound very farfetched in my opinion.
Is Google God? Being at a Christian stand point No! Google is Not God. Being at student of study and working in the field of New Media I would say yeah Google could be considered a God. However I would call it more of a medium tool. It allows you to search for just about any answer. I use it a lot for tutorials on how to do something. Especially for certain pieces or gimmicks in software or for coding purposes.
What did we do before Youtube.com? My response is we use to have a thing called VHS tapes. We would have our own libraries of videos. We would just watch them or perhaps a friend would have a video and we watch it. We also had video rental stores, much like we have Family Video today. But, instead of DVDs, we had VHS tapes. I could then see before than we had the TV and then even before then we had the radio. Two things come to my mind when I think of radio back in the days before TV would be the movie Annie and the TV series the Waltons. My mom was always crazy over the Walton series and it is how I got my middle name Jason. I was a kid during the 1980s. I remember going to the drive-in movies to see the movie Annie. We even had a field trip in school where we seen Annie. Beef & Boards Recently had the play Annie last year. What I am remembering is the part where Daddy Warbucks does a Radio announcement that they are trying to find Annie’s real parents. I also remember from the Waltons the Waltons family sitting around the radio listening to it much like the familes later did with TV.
I think in response to writing, video, scrolls going to books than now to the Kindel DX device on Amazon and also with the iPad that apple is introducing these are all methods in which to store information. I think that was the whole point of bringing up the subject. I think it doesn’t matter what you use I think humans all through history have had a desire to record information or to archive it for future use. Humans study history. My cousin the other day wrote her grocery list down and brought it in to show me while I was at work one day. In Business, it is often important to store data for future use. A company could look back upon the last year and try to use that information to make improvements for the following year.
My fear is if we go with more of an electronic way of storing materials will we lose it if say the power would go out? What happens when a major disaster happens? At least with things written on stone or on paper it is most likely going to last to be shown to future generations. How do you think we know so much about the Egyptians? We have studied the paintings on the walls of the Pyramids that they left for us. But, What if society no longer writes anything down on paper and we go to archiving all information by electronic means? Well as long as we have electronic devices and power to view the content I do not see a problem. I am just wondering though if we were to have a major disaster that wipes out electronic devices; how would we recover that data? How would future generations know what happened in the year 2010 for example?
My point is we may lose our history if it is not written down. Lets look at history before things were written down. Are we becoming a society once again that does not write anything down permanently for the next generation to see? Haven’t you ever heard of the expression nothing is set in stone? Stone is permanent or will last a long time, much like the bones of dinosaurs are left behind to prove that there were these creatures that lived 50 million or billion years ago.
The movie Time Machine comes to my mind in lot of these ideas. The new one, not the old one. I looked it up and it came out around December 2001 or around 2002. It was a huge hit! I remember going to see it with some friends when it first came out. That movie speaks to me! It is about this guy who wants to go back in time to save his girlfriend. No matter what he does she always dies. Which goes to show it was meant for her to die. If you recall the future people in the movie blew up the moon and that actually caused a major disaster causing an evolution in people. It caused an evolution into two different species. One lives above ground and the other lives below ground. My point is that they actually did not know the world of today. The only thing left were stones. They didn’t even know the English language or how to read it. They even had this one guy that was actually a computer stuck in some mirrors or glass at the library from a short not too distant future accusation. Anyway my point is we may be sent back to prehistoric times if technology fails.
What if we lose our electricity? Books do not require electricity. What will we leave people of the future? How will we be perceived by people of the future? How will they learn about the world of today? How will the 21st Century play out? If you will notice that the 20th century is very different from the beginning to the end of the century. Rapid change in technology advances happened. Much of the way of Pop-Culture changed as well. My prediction is that the 21st century will evolve in the very same way. We have already experienced the 1st decade of the 21st Century. What will the next decade bring? The 2010s? Then even the decades ahead! 2020s? 2050s? 2070s? 2090s? Only Time will Tell! Time has always been a fascination of mine.
What are your thoughts?
I had never thought of it that way, but it is true. We are becoming a very social society. I myself hardly watch TV anymore. As I use to watch it all the time. I like having a conversation with you on a one to one basis. I like finding what someone likes or dislikes. I guess that is how you befriend someone. It is how you connect with someone on any kind of relationship level. Whether it be a friendship, teacher, student, doctor, lover, etc?
I have heard of the idea that in the future products will find you and you will not be looking for the products. Although I might disagree a little about the statement "you will not be looking for products". It is hard to imagine not still looking for a product that perhaps a friend of yours has and you would like it for yourself. I think I mentioned this earlier that perhaps someday there might be a chip built inside of you that will send electronic messages to billboards and other advertisement means to gear towards your needs. For example I use yet again the example if you like strawberry ice cream perhaps ads about strawberry ice cream will appear. Perhaps something like strawberry bubblegum will appear or something similar to strawberry icecream.
My response to Broadcasting vs. Socialism is this … To me someone yelling their lungs out with a megaphone on top of a building is one sided or like TV is sort of one sided. It is the message transferring to a group of people, but there is no response back. But if you consider feedback in terms of emails received about a particular show then I would consider that to be Socialism.
Socialism to me is feedback and responding back and forth about something. Where as Broadcasting is one sided. It is making a public announcement to the universe. Sort of like the President coming on TV and announcing the Haiti earthquakes. We are not talking to the President back and forth about it. Although when two people talk about the President’s Speech about Haiti Earthquakes then I would consider that to be Socialism.
In response to the question; Why would you trust your friends over an advertisement? It is simple! In Advertising they often will lie about the product so that they sell it to you. In one of my former blogs I mention about the exercise industry. They try to sell you all of these phoney pills that claim to make you skinny, but they really don’t. They really don’t care as long as someone is buying the product. It is all about marketing and getting customers to buy their product. A friend’s opinion about the product is much more valuable. Why? Because in most cases they are users of the product. Basically, advertisements lie to sell the product. Friends are more likely to tell you the truth as what to do they have to gain to lie to you about a product? Why would they lie in the first place? If a friend lies to you than you have bigger problems I think. I might question then why are you friends with this person if they are going to lie to you. A real friend is someone you trust.
In response to the question; What is News? News to me is anything that is information about something. To me there is personal news like what is going on in your personal life and then there is worldly news like the earthquakes in Haiti that everyone is talking about. Is “I got up in the morning and did this today” news? I would say yes! It is not probably going to make the headlines in the newspaper, internet or TV, but it might make it to a few comments on some of the various social networks sites. If you were to say something on twitter; Would it be considered News? Yes, would be my response once again. If someone is interested in what you are doing they are the recipients of the news. You are giving that information about what you are doing.
If you look it up at Dictionary.com the definition of News you will receive the following.
1.
a report of a recent event; intelligence; information: His family has had no news of his whereabouts for months.
2.
the presentation of a report on recent or new events in a newspaper or other periodical or on radio or television.
3.
such reports taken collectively; information reported: There's good news tonight.
4.
a person, thing, or event considered as a choice subject for journalistic treatment; newsworthy material. Compare copy (def. 5).
In my opinion, I think we are becoming Movie Stars or famous people! We have our own poporotizi or fans! What I mean by that is our so called friends on many of the social networks are interested in what we are doing. So perhaps you are not a singer or a movie star, but people are into your life and what you have to say. I know in some cases many people are always interested in what I have to say. I seem to have a very creative and thoughtful mind. Some people seem to be attracted to that. Not to sound vain or anything, but usually people are attracted to good looking people. Now you might say what is a good looking person? Beauty is in the eye of the beholder is my response to that question. But, perhaps the magazines sitting on the newsstands actually tell us what is beautiful and what is not.
Does News have to be an impact? All news is an impact whether it be big or small in my opinion. If a person is reading it, it will create some sort of feeling inside. To me any information at all given and someone receives it is news. News for you could be taken as what interest do you have? I know myself I am more likely to read something if I am interested in the subject matter. If I am not interested I find it very boring. I know in school they would give us all of these text books and things of which I was not interested. I sometimes would fall asleep while reading it. Why? Because my brain wants to shut off. It is just not interested and therefore just does not want to comprehend it.
In response to Wikapedia, trust issues, and editng content and is it like a newspaper? I would have to agree with all of the statements made during class. I would say if you are not really sure if it actually the truth or if it is accurate I would say get a second opinion. Much like if your doctor would say you had cancer you could always ask another doctor and they might say something completely different. The beauty of the net is that there are so many sites doing the same things. I am sure there are other sites that act much like Wikapedia and you could verify the information. If you have found the information to be the same on different sources than my conclusion would be this must be right.
What is society and being social? For me society is the people and world in which we live in today. Being social is just that being social and talking to other people. It is called networking in the business world. Sometimes it is not what you know, but who you know.
Being Social and Being Public is about the same thing as Broadcasting vs. Socialism. Broadcasting and being Public about something are really the same things. Being Social and Socialism are the same things as well. Being Social interprets a response or interaction between two people or groups of people. Public is one sided. It is kind of like a dictatorship. The news on TV for example is being Public. I cannot talk back to the person on TV. Well I could but that person is not going to hear what I have to say. LOL
In my opinion; “Will you be my acquaintance?” does not sound as good as; “Will you be my friend?” It just sounds more like you want to connect with that person or reach out. Acquaintance almost sounds like you are stuck up and have no desire to get to know me. I guess what I am saying is the word “friend” sounds friendlier.
I looked this up at Dictionary.com
1.
a person attached to another by feelings of affection or personal regard.
2.
a person who gives assistance; patron; supporter: friends of the Boston Symphony.
3.
a person who is on good terms with another; a person who is not hostile: Who goes there? Friend or foe?
4.
a member of the same nation, party, etc.
5.
(initial capital letter ) a member of the Religious Society of Friends; a Quaker.
In response to the Promo for on-line advertisement video we watched in class and is that advertising? I would say yes! The video seems very believable. It makes a connection with what I already know about the net and the world in which I live in today. It is very persuasive and I think it does a good job with its message. In a sense I think it plays on some ideas of what most people already know. Are the percentages accurate? Well perhaps the percentages are not accurate, but it is very believable. It just doesn’t sound very farfetched in my opinion.
Is Google God? Being at a Christian stand point No! Google is Not God. Being at student of study and working in the field of New Media I would say yeah Google could be considered a God. However I would call it more of a medium tool. It allows you to search for just about any answer. I use it a lot for tutorials on how to do something. Especially for certain pieces or gimmicks in software or for coding purposes.
What did we do before Youtube.com? My response is we use to have a thing called VHS tapes. We would have our own libraries of videos. We would just watch them or perhaps a friend would have a video and we watch it. We also had video rental stores, much like we have Family Video today. But, instead of DVDs, we had VHS tapes. I could then see before than we had the TV and then even before then we had the radio. Two things come to my mind when I think of radio back in the days before TV would be the movie Annie and the TV series the Waltons. My mom was always crazy over the Walton series and it is how I got my middle name Jason. I was a kid during the 1980s. I remember going to the drive-in movies to see the movie Annie. We even had a field trip in school where we seen Annie. Beef & Boards Recently had the play Annie last year. What I am remembering is the part where Daddy Warbucks does a Radio announcement that they are trying to find Annie’s real parents. I also remember from the Waltons the Waltons family sitting around the radio listening to it much like the familes later did with TV.
I think in response to writing, video, scrolls going to books than now to the Kindel DX device on Amazon and also with the iPad that apple is introducing these are all methods in which to store information. I think that was the whole point of bringing up the subject. I think it doesn’t matter what you use I think humans all through history have had a desire to record information or to archive it for future use. Humans study history. My cousin the other day wrote her grocery list down and brought it in to show me while I was at work one day. In Business, it is often important to store data for future use. A company could look back upon the last year and try to use that information to make improvements for the following year.
My fear is if we go with more of an electronic way of storing materials will we lose it if say the power would go out? What happens when a major disaster happens? At least with things written on stone or on paper it is most likely going to last to be shown to future generations. How do you think we know so much about the Egyptians? We have studied the paintings on the walls of the Pyramids that they left for us. But, What if society no longer writes anything down on paper and we go to archiving all information by electronic means? Well as long as we have electronic devices and power to view the content I do not see a problem. I am just wondering though if we were to have a major disaster that wipes out electronic devices; how would we recover that data? How would future generations know what happened in the year 2010 for example?
My point is we may lose our history if it is not written down. Lets look at history before things were written down. Are we becoming a society once again that does not write anything down permanently for the next generation to see? Haven’t you ever heard of the expression nothing is set in stone? Stone is permanent or will last a long time, much like the bones of dinosaurs are left behind to prove that there were these creatures that lived 50 million or billion years ago.
The movie Time Machine comes to my mind in lot of these ideas. The new one, not the old one. I looked it up and it came out around December 2001 or around 2002. It was a huge hit! I remember going to see it with some friends when it first came out. That movie speaks to me! It is about this guy who wants to go back in time to save his girlfriend. No matter what he does she always dies. Which goes to show it was meant for her to die. If you recall the future people in the movie blew up the moon and that actually caused a major disaster causing an evolution in people. It caused an evolution into two different species. One lives above ground and the other lives below ground. My point is that they actually did not know the world of today. The only thing left were stones. They didn’t even know the English language or how to read it. They even had this one guy that was actually a computer stuck in some mirrors or glass at the library from a short not too distant future accusation. Anyway my point is we may be sent back to prehistoric times if technology fails.
What if we lose our electricity? Books do not require electricity. What will we leave people of the future? How will we be perceived by people of the future? How will they learn about the world of today? How will the 21st Century play out? If you will notice that the 20th century is very different from the beginning to the end of the century. Rapid change in technology advances happened. Much of the way of Pop-Culture changed as well. My prediction is that the 21st century will evolve in the very same way. We have already experienced the 1st decade of the 21st Century. What will the next decade bring? The 2010s? Then even the decades ahead! 2020s? 2050s? 2070s? 2090s? Only Time will Tell! Time has always been a fascination of mine.
What are your thoughts?
What does the future hold for fitness?
I think we could apply the idea of technology to fitness. What does the future hold for fitness? What kind of future fitness machines will we as humans invent? What is the best way to get fit? Why is that for some people getting fit is easy and others it is not? How do the movie stars get six pack abs? With our everyday lives and our schedules how do we make time to get fit? What are the best ways of getting fit and having a leaner better looking body?
It is an American tradition, after the holidays, to make a New Year's Resolution in getting fit. The American Fitness Industry pulls in billions of dollars off of people wanting to get leaner and thinner. You have probably seen those magic pills they have came out with claiming you will be slimmer if you take them. Then there are the diets, the gym, the protein shakes, etc. Science is supposed to be improving the way we look and feel, yet most Americans are becoming fatter every day. Why? We are probably one of the fattest countries in the world. At McDonalds we see a Big Mac and it is loaded in fat and calories, yet most Americans choose to eat it because it tastes good. In my observations it is cheaper to eat unhealthy than it is to eat healthy. More and more restaurants are coming out with healthier menus. Subway was one of the first ones that started the idea with coming out with Subway sandwiches that were 7 grams of fat or less. I noticed the other day that Taco Bell now has what they call the Drive-In Diet or Fresco Style Menu. Buying Produce is more expensive than buying Little Debbie Snack cakes and other junk food. The store is more likely to put junk food on sale more than healthy foods. Why? Most Americans at the first of the year are good about eating healthy, but by spring we are right back where we started. Why? It would look like someone out there could come up with a definite plan of action to make our bodies fit. But, what is that plan of action?
Link to Alli: http://www.myalli.com/
The drug Alli, maybe some of you may have heard of it?, is suppose to be FDA approved. But, does it really work? Why is it that some people can eat anything in site and still remain skinny? While others if they just look at a cheesecake gain weight? Is this genetics? Is there something that we could all take to improve our metabolism? I have been recently taking Green Tea pills. The drug claims to give you more energy and improve your metabolism. How do I know the drug is really working? They always say you should consult your doctor, but hello doctors are expensive!!! So every time we want to start a new diet plan we are suppose to consult our doctors? Most likely this is a legal thing. Many of us can not afford to see a doctor about everything.
If you have seen the Disney cartoon Wall-E you will see a world where we are all fat. All we do all day long is sit in our chairs, connected into a network. Could humans continue to evolve? Here is a month long question for you! Does technology make humans evolve in appearance and in actions or do humans evolve with technology? The answer could be a little bit of both. Technology has greatly increased laziness in my opinion. For example years ago you had to get up and shut off the TV. Now you have a remote! Humans do not have to walk anymore to very many places. We have cars to get around in. We also do not have to use the stairs. We have elevators for that! Of course we take all this for granted.
I have been working out at the gym. One thing I noticed is they have all of these machines that are supposed to work different parts of the body. Why not have an exercise simulator that when you get in it, it would allow you to do your cardio and weights all in one machine. In case you have not notice I am all about having one machine do a lot of different things. It would certainly save a lot of room at the gym. I hate waiting on a machine I need. Someone else always seems to be occupying it. If there was many machines that all did the same thing then I would not have to worry about this.
Link To Full Bar: http://www.fullbar.com/
Is there a way we can invent a food that will be filled with all kinds of nutrients and no fat? I have seen on TV they have the "Full Bar". It is suppose to be an alternative to gestural bypass surgery. But, do these really work? Are they just like the magic pills that are suppose to make you slimmer, but don't? Many statics claim that most of these so called "magic pills" really do more harm than good. They can affect your heart for example.
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