Today's blog is a continuation of last weeks lecture as we began again to talk about various aspects of modern technology and the impact it has today.
We went back over various different topics such as how the younger generation or the name Paul gave to it “digital natives”, adapted to modern day technology so quickly and how we can see this sort of virtual world forming around our day to day lives.
As our lecture began, we were introduced to a 12 year old kid giving a TED talk – who would have thought he would have that under his belt at the age of 12? He basically taught himself or possibly was taught how to use programming systems such as java to invent an app. His most famous app being “Bustin Jeiber”. Well now we have spoken a bit about that can I just say, I truly do find it incredible a child having this much ability and that is just a glimpse into the future of what is to come from our modern day children – well that’s if your asking me. I think that it would be fair to say that us "digital natives" are so used to technology today that we are not afraid to play around with technology, growing up playing video games, interacting with computers, and other digital equipment that you don't even think twice about using technology and quite frankly we don't even put much thought into it. I am beginning to think this could well be the difference between us "digital natives" and the "old folks".
I would like to extend on the interesting topic, virtual space. A couple of points were raised that we indeed live a part of our life in a virtual space, for example online newspapers and magazines and more interestingly through social networking sites, take facebook as an example. At first I didn't quite understand what Paul was trying to say then I soon came to realise! Take a girls night out for example, realistically, you would think a girls night out is all about the night out, drinking, dancing and having fun, yes it is but it was soon pointed out that indeed the night out still goes on to exist in photos that are uploaded onto facebook, it was not long after this lecture that I find myself doing the same thing, putting Pauls words into actions. The night still lives on in my virtual space.
I would like to extend on the interesting topic, virtual space. A couple of points were raised that we indeed live a part of our life in a virtual space, for example online newspapers and magazines and more interestingly through social networking sites, take facebook as an example. At first I didn't quite understand what Paul was trying to say then I soon came to realise! Take a girls night out for example, realistically, you would think a girls night out is all about the night out, drinking, dancing and having fun, yes it is but it was soon pointed out that indeed the night out still goes on to exist in photos that are uploaded onto facebook, it was not long after this lecture that I find myself doing the same thing, putting Pauls words into actions. The night still lives on in my virtual space. In this day and age we can choose which way we even want to view our news papers and magazines, as I said before, online, we can download them on to Smartphone’s and Ipad’s or we can go up-close and personal and buy the real thing to hold it in your hand. I for one am a fan of buying the real thing, but I also have to agree I have bought several downloads and I haven’t been disappointed, in a way it can tell the story two different ways, the difference is the virtual machine!
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