Blog Forum Post Ten

I'm sad to think that this class is over, I had a lot of fun doing the blog, and in class. I'm even considering starting my own blog!
   If I were to put myself into the "Future Vision" video, a couple things popped that would either hinder or help my life move forward. To start with the bad things first, my original thought was that things like the man knowing the woman's estimated time arrival to the hotel, could make stalking someone ten times easier, and make avoiding a stalker ten times harder. And as for the man pointing his phone/device thing (I know, super descriptive) at the charity ad to donate, I'm sure that there is a way for someone, somewhere, to be able to hack into that system or even create their own similar one that takes your money if your phone/device is so much as pointed towards it, without having the owner "OK" it. Now to help, it would make my life easier because I could more easily share things with my family members, while multitasking, so I could be looking up a recipe while getting say, my dad's, take on it through Skype, or something similar. Another way the technology could help me is like the calendar example, I'd be much more apt to keep my calendar information in one place rather than having to search my phone to find one thing, one at a time.
   I think that it definitely would be a more efficient, and productive world, but better? Not so much. The reason I think this is because I could more effective access my documents on my phone/device without needing my laptop, which would be nice in case I forgot to turn in an assignment, because all I would need to do is pull out the device and send it from there. I guess that productivity could go both ways, because I could be more productive and get things done twice as fast, but I'm almost positive that there will be something on that device to distract me from what I'm actually doing. Here's my reasoning behind it not getting any better: it's impersonal. Technology like that could absolutely limit the amount of human interaction I get, and with how little there already is in the outside world, I don't think decreasing that interaction will benefit humanity anymore.
   Two implications of such a world for the media and the industries would have to be newspaper, and books. Newspaper because I think that with that technology, the newspaper will be entirely out of print. It will be completely digital, I honestly think that all paper products could be eliminated at that point. Which leads, me to books. Books would be entirely digital as well. I think that there would be little, if any, paper products, in that world with that level of technology.
   I definitely enjoyed this class, and I believe that the most important things to keep up with this class would have to be the blog, and keeping up the amount of student discussion we had! Those were my two favorite things and they worked very well. I think something to add would have to be expanding more on video games, because they are a major market, and the first vide we watched was primarily about them. I know I would have found that really interesting. I think that everything worked well with this class, it was well balanced and you don't always get that from a classroom. This was definitely one of my favorite classes.