Food Service Project

Well I was going to comment on the "Online Media Turns Combative Against New Media" website given to us but to be honest I really didn't fully understand it. What I will say is new media is huge and will eventually (maybe years and years from now) completely take over traditional media. Google is huge and I know is was mentioned a few times pertaining to copyright laws and being sued over it. Main issue, though........old media is scared. Google is huge and has already taken over so much. Everyone knows of YouTube. Sue them all you want but they can't and won't be stopped.

I think this week we made it a step further (even if it was a little one) into completing the food service project. I think over the next couple of weeks we'll have accomplished a lot on it. I was really worried at the first of the week on how we were going to go about getting started on this project but now I'm very positive. I don't think this is going to be as bad as I originally thought. I'm looking forward to doing it and am excited to see what we do with the finished project! Happy Halloween everyone and stay safe!

Project

Well unfortunately I had to miss last Wednesday and Friday so I'm way behind on the project. After reading a couple other posts it sounds like everything is going great and that Mike and his team work very well together. I'm looking forward to catching up and eventually working with the garbage band and such. That was fun to mess around with! Hopefully all you guys can help me catch up! I'd appreciate it! See ya Monday!

Transformations

So I found the transformations article very interesting and I agree with it. For one I can understand where he was talking about the news not only serving to keep people informed and updated on what's going on in the world (and catering to our curious needs as well), but it is also a "surveillance function" for us. We do need that constant assurance that we are safe and being protected. We want to know that whether or not we are being threatened in any way. And I do think it this need to know has rapidly increased over time (for obvious reasons). That is another reason why this information is being available on mobile phones and computers and not just on television. The article was very interesting and I think very true about human nature and needs.

Human versus computers

Okay so I kind of had some trouble understanding exactly what the writer was driving at with this topic. Basically I took from it that humans are obviously more complex, with error, and has the generations progress it will take longer for us to evolve into well-educated citizens. Duh! That is stating the obvious to me. And I know the writer went deeper into this but basically was resorting back to saying the same thing. And for the record, off the subject, (because I'm constently hearing this now), computers are not and will not ever become smarter than humans in my opinion. We created them, we are the one's that put the information and knowledge into them. We can add more knowledge, fix its errors, and we can take its knowledge away! And those things alone will make us forever smarter than technology. But having emotions, neurons, social interactions, etc. on top of all of that makes us forever on top!