Social, Professional and Ethical Aspects of IT (ICS0006) Blog

In my opinion, from the list of new medias provided, wikis is the one that influenced and changed the world the most in my opinion. The best place to start talking about how wikis changed the world would be in the physical world that we constantly interact with, the biggest physical item that was changed were the encyclopedia, they were made obsolete, I was about to make an example of how there were still uses for encyclopedias in places without access to internet, but I read an article during my research that claimed you could download all of Wikipedia in about 50gb without images and 100gb with them. If you think about it 50gb is really only a large USB worth, as long as you have access to the internet at some point you could download and carry the whole website of Wikipedia with you, and not a single encyclopedia is able to compete with that. As wikis are digital, it would only make sense that the biggest impact that they would have is in the digital world, and the biggest impact th...

Sadly the mark of progress is the passing of the old, as the saying goes “Out with the old and in with the new”, and in the case of technology it is especially relevant. In many cases a technology came along that acted as a stopgap, but that technology had a limit and to improve upon it a new technology had to be introduced, like for example in the case of Dial-up internet and Broadband. Dial-up internet Its predecessor, USENET, invented in 1979 by Tom Truscott a computer scientist who co-created Usenet and Steve Bellovin a computer networking security researcher, a system that allowed dial-up to transfer data through telephone modems. It was a genius idea not only was it cheap to implement, but it also didn’t require any additional infrastructure built if the location already had the Telephone network connected, a number of articles claim that it was a truly important step in the direction of cheap and accessible internet for everyone. But sadly for Dial-up internet, it rea...

As much as people hope and pray, failure is an undeniable fact, some even say that it is an important step to success! So in this blog post I will be looking at and describing a couple of the most interesting ideas that had potential, but unfortunately were unable to live up to it due to one reason or another. Google Glass Sadly Google Glass falls into this category, unlike many of the products and services that I considered putting on the list, this one brought me the most sadness to put on here. I personally had high hopes for this product, when the rumors and leaks started surfacing on the internet around 2012, there was excitement and anticipation, and google later that year released a what could be video confirming the peoples hopes and giving rise to a new fervor! Then Google did a very eye catching demo of the Google Glass by having multiple sky divers wear the device and transmit everything live as they skydived to the conference, truly that was the peak of the excitement. ...

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