Week 5: ICT and World Change(Mass Media, the Internet, Wireless, Interactive Telecommunications) Past, Present and Future

It's time for TWC again!

So the class for week 5 is with regards to ICT and World Change((Mass Media, the Internet, Wireless, Interactive telecommunications) Past, Present and Future.

The first thing that came into my mind was, "OMG. WHAT IS ICT!?"
anyways, googled it and it actually stands for information and communication technology (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information_and_communications_technology)

There's quite a number of interesting points that we covered in class today, like Project Natal (which is actually Kinect of XBOX360), what is knowledge, cloud computing and the evolution of internet.

Project Natal allows us to see how it is no longer a barrier for us to interact with game consoles. and now, with Kinect and Wii, we are able to have more interactions with the games, like playing a sport or dance.
We went on to the evolution of internet, which was from web 1.0 to web 2.0 to web 3.0. Frankly speaking i didnt even know that we are now using web 3.0! Back when i was a poly student, web 2.0 was THE big thing.

So, what's the main difference between the 3 versions?


Web 1.0 - information are more on a read-only basis and there wasn't communication or information flow from consumer of the information and the producer of the information.

Web 2.0 - this is when the user comes in. (Blogger makes use of web 2.0 too!) This is also the start of the read-write-update era. even non-technical users can interact and contribute to the internet through blogs and social media.

Web 3.0 - a web of data that can be processed directly and indirectly by machines (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semantic_Web)

There are many advantages of Cloud Computing and many examples of cloud computing. Most of my favourite applications resides in the cloud like dropbox or google docs.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloud_computing

next we went on to the presentation. and one presentation which i like particularly was Ivan's presentation. His presentation was about the media (eg. news articles and tv programs) and how some reports are staged in order to bring across a message (usually biased). One of Ivan's question for discussion was,
"when you watch news on televsion today, how sceptical or receptive are you to it?"

My take on this question is simple. Read the article, digest and only take in the logical points.
in the case of straits times (which is commonly known for being pro-government), i would read the articles with a pinch of salt. then i would go online and read temasek review and the online citizen. (which is more of a anti-goverment stand). from that i would filter through the information i have received. YAY!

 
I would rate the class 8/10 as the class was very interesting and informative. Just a suggestion, maybe we could get people to comment about where the presenters for the individual oral presentation like where we can improve on.






reference:
http://ezinearticles.com/?Difference-Between-Web-1.0,-Web-2.0,-and-Web-3.0---With-Examples&id=3683790