So, we have finally reached the end of a very enriching blogging experience. I feel a sense of relief yet also a sense of waste, knowing that its all coming to an end.
The future will be here sooner than we would imagine and a decade down the road in 2019, what would the internet become? Well, gathering from what I am exposed so far in class, I would presume that the internet would not only grow and be even more available to countries and societies around the world, it would also become even more powerful. Powerful in a sense that it will be faster, it will connect to more places and more people and most importantly, more people would learn how to use it.
The internet has certainly become a growing source for entertainment for tons of people. Sites like YouTube makes video sharing so easy. I would assume that in the future, more and more people will be making their own 'budget' movies and putting them up on sites like YouTube. The usual big-budget Hollywood movies will still be around, but now there's a new flavour in town and that is free budget cheapskate movies that your neighbour produced, wrote and starred in.
Education will also be impacted. With primary and secondary schools already installing computer labs in their premises today, in ten years time, we could see students going to school with a thumbdrive than with a school bag. More group work will be inculcated to balance out any overtime spent on the computer and homeworl will all be done online and printed out if needed. The future will also see a drop in the amount of paper needed for textbooks and thats all good for mother nature.
I am able to make all these predictions about the internet because I feel that I have been well-versed with its nature thanks to COM 125 even though it is only at its fundamental stage. This course has taught me how to appreciate this medium even more and to feel its true impact on society. I have learnt the basic terms that keep the internet alive, like TCP/IP, RSS, podcasting and e-commerce. On top of that I have also learnt valuable lifeskills in this course like the benefits of Growth mindset and the elements of Bloom's taxonomy that gives us an info about education and learning itself.
All in all, I am glad I'm part of this course that offers so much more than its name suggests. Much appreciation to Mr. Abel Choy who made all these possible in facilitating our learning. The gains from this course will benefit me after graduation and far, far into the future.
About Me
- Clement Wan
- "True art is never where it is expected to be: in places where no one considers it, nor names it. Monsieur Art hates to be recognized and greeted by his name. He walks around everywhere: everyone has already met him, jostles him at every junction ten times a day; but no one would ever think it could be him – Monsieur Art himself, of whom so much good has been said. That’s because he doesn’t look like Monsieur Art. The false Monsieur Art pretends to be the true; but in fact the true doesn’t pretend at all. Thus people tend to err. Many people err." - Jean Dubuffet
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