Self evaluation

Self Evaluation
I think our video went very well, we were creative and tried to make the video as entertaining as possible.
Our conclusion was that more people would rather read articles off the internet than pick up a book. They would rather learn from an unreliable source than a reliable source basically :)

A - VERY WELL
C - VERY WELL
T-  VERY WELL
U- FAIR
P- FAIR

WWW- I THINK WE WERE CREATIVE AND MADE THE VIDEO INFORMATIVE AND ENTERTAINING AT THE SAME TIME.

EBI - WE HAD A BETTER CAMERA, AND THE WAY THE CAMERA SHOTS WERE FILMED WERE A BIT DODGY. IT WOULD'VE BEEN EVEN BETTER IF WE HAD BETTER CAMERA SKILLS

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The Long view

Its almost as the fear of unknown with what more things the world has to give us. The introduction of hindsight is something that we as humans can not do, so its as if we are on a journey with the internet and we are unsure where it's going to take us next. He says "that people tend to overestimate the short-term impact of new technologies — and to underestimate their long-term implications.". 

The web isn't the net

The internet is not the same as the web they are different. He says "Think of the internet as the tracks and signalling, the infrastructure on which everything runs. In a railway network, different kinds of traffic run on the infrastructure — high-speed express trains, slow stopping trains, commuter trains, freight trains and (sometimes) specialist maintenance and repair trains.

Disruption is a feature, not a bug

In the 1970s, it was Vint Cerf and Robert Kahn who were the lead designers, were faced with two difficult tasks: how to design a system that links lots of other networks, and how to design a network that is future-proof -> by implementing these twin protocols, Vint Cerf and Robert Kahn created what was essentially a global robot with a lot of expectations

Ecology, not economics

Life was now slowing changing into an ecosystem in which billions of smaller species consume, transform, aggregate or break down and exchange information goods in much smaller units – and in which new gigantic life-forms (Google, Facebook) are up-and-coming.

Is complexity the new reality

where we get our information is getting more complex, in terms of numbers of participants, the density of interactions between them, and how fast or slow the change is than anything that has gone before. This complexity is not an oddness or something to be wished away: it's the new reality, and one that we have to address.

The only network we have is now the computer

Change from a world in which the PC really was the computer, to one in which the network is effectively the computer. Data stored on the cloud rather than networks. A quote from this section is "sleepwalking into this brave new world" which shows we are none the wiser of what's happening around us and we are willing to trust technology

The web is changing 

Web has gone through at least three phases of evolution – from the original web 1.0, to the web 2.0 of "small pieces, loosely joined" (social networking, mashups, webmail, and so on) and is now heading towards some kind of web 3.0 – a global platform based on Tim Burners-lee 's idea of the 'semantic web'

Huxley and Orwell

Neil Postman predicted that the insights of two writers would, like a pair of bookends, bracket our future. Aldous Huxley believed that we would be destroyed by the things we love, while GeorgeOrwell thought we would be destroyed by the things we fear.The net has been a profoundly liberating influence in our lives – creating endless opportunities for information, entertainment, pleasure, delight, communication, and apparently effortless consumption.

Our intellectual property regime is not longer fit for purpose

Digital technology has provided internet users with software tools which make it trivially easy to copy, edit, remix and publish anything that is available in digital form. As a result, millions of people have become "publishers" in the sense that their creations are globally published on platforms such as Blogger, Flickr and YouTube.

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