Monday, December 14, 2009
Assignment 18 time travel
I find the possibility of time travel during my lifetime fascinating. While it may not be ligitimately traveling through time, a virtual time travel model would be amazing. It would be so cool to be able to interact nwith past figures in history, and I really hope it will be a possiblity in my lifetime. There would practically be a never ending record of history, and it would be the perfect way to perserve our history for centuries to come, eliminating the confusion surrounding historical studies.
House
My virtual home. A castle on the edge of cyberspace, which collects all of the spam from emails.
Monday, November 16, 2009
Assignment 13
Today's world is a dangerous place. Everyday it seems children are engaging in reckless behavior or are being made victims. One possibility that seems to be arising is monitoring our children with computer technology. I have a hard time accepting this idea. It seems like parents will have too much control over their children with these systems. Wanting to protect your children is one thing, but monitoring their every move is quite another thing entirely. It almost sounds like something from the novel 1984.
One possibility I could agree with is parents outfitting their children with chips that could be used to track a child's location, but that would need to be used at a police station. This way the monitoring could only be used in emergencies, like if the child goes missing. This way kidnapping victims could be located, but parents wouldn't be able to monitor their children 24/7. I do feel like we should take advantage of the technologies available to us, I just don't feel it should prevent us from trusting our family members. I am also nervous that if parents could monitor their children, the need for parent/child communication would be lost. Rather than asking their children where they were going or when they would be back, they could just check online. Call me old fashioned, but I just don't like the thought of constant surveillance of a family member.
One possibility I could agree with is parents outfitting their children with chips that could be used to track a child's location, but that would need to be used at a police station. This way the monitoring could only be used in emergencies, like if the child goes missing. This way kidnapping victims could be located, but parents wouldn't be able to monitor their children 24/7. I do feel like we should take advantage of the technologies available to us, I just don't feel it should prevent us from trusting our family members. I am also nervous that if parents could monitor their children, the need for parent/child communication would be lost. Rather than asking their children where they were going or when they would be back, they could just check online. Call me old fashioned, but I just don't like the thought of constant surveillance of a family member.
Monday, November 9, 2009
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