LIS 2600

Tuesday, December 9, 2008

http://emilyfreehling.blogspot.com/2008/12/muddiest-point-week-14.html

Friday, December 5, 2008

Week 14 Muddiest POint

Am I alone in being really freaked out by Internet technology encroaching on our lives?

Does everyone embrace this?

I read about all the "cool" effects, what about the downsides? Are these taken seriously at all?

week 14 readings

What Cloud Computing Really Means by Galen Gruman

& Explaining Cloud Computing: Youtube with Christopher Barnatt

The future of computers and computing is that we will have blank devices meant for simply accessing everything over the internet. This will work great, except when the Internet goes down, and then these devices will be useless.

SaaS and Haas will give greater flexibility, choice, and better updating to users.

The Future of Libraries: beginning the Great Transformation by Thomas Frey

Frey claims that literacy will be dead by 2050. We will have become a verbal society.

What does this mean? Will we become more stupid?

"What is the ultimate form of communication?" Frey asks. It seems to have something to do with technology, that we will have invisible communication devices. I've often thought that cell phones are a secular way of achieving near-ESP (i.e. being able to contact anyone anywhere).

Perhaps we'll have cell phone implants?

Still, maybe the ultimate form of communication has more to do with how we say what we say, rather than the strategy we employ to carry it.

Internet searches in the future will include smell, taste, speed and velocity. Will I be able to learn what is necessary to become a trusted professional that people will turn to?

"We have more needs faster."

I disagree with the use of the term needs here. We have more strategies and more distractions. Our needs are food, water, shelter. These do not change. Our wants increase exponentially. Our distractions form ourselves also increase.

Libraries will become cultural centers.

I see this happening. The lack of books encourages people to talk more. I hope art, dance, music find places in a library since they seem to be disappearing from home and schools!

Tuesday, December 2, 2008

week 13 comments

http://kirstenbell.blogspot.com/2008/11/week-13-readings-and-muddiest-point.html

http://worldsedgelog.blogspot.com/2008/11/notes-on-chapter-10-of-no-place-to-hide.html

http://corrinewxly.blogspot.com/2008/11/week-13-readings.html

Saturday, November 29, 2008

week 13 readings

No Place to Hide:

What a dismal chapter! You know, I do not, and have never, believed that we had to give away privacy or "freedom" in exchange for increased security. the recent attacks in Mumbai just remind me that the US isn't the only target of terrorism. Violence and terrorism is worldwide, and I do believe are not "trying to keep us safe" but are instead gleefully reaping profits by motivating us with fear. I felt sick when I read the quote, "We want you to recognize the economic opportunity that homeland security presents. It is important for all Americans to remember that when the terrorists struck on September 11, 2001, one of their goals was to cripple the U.S. economy. We must remember this and change our mindset to make protecting the homeland a mission that moves our economy forward."

First of all: the use of the word homeland. Only Native Americans can use this word correctly. Only they are indigenous. Next, when people invoke 9/11 to make a profit. This is just wrong.

TIA: ONly if these programs were run perfectly, they might work as intended. But, they are human-created and human-run. The humans who run it will make human decisions and human errors. We will compile huge archives of everyday comings and goings, and while pursuing information in the name of security, many things which are not the business of the government or contractors, and which are still technically protected, will be noted and recorded. In some grey area on some grey day, this information could be used against us, or to control us. At the very worst, we are manipulated and don't know it. At the best, it is creepy that one may someday find out it has been recorded, all the dumb things one did one random day.

Youtube video: has been removed due to copyright claim of Viacom.