Comments on: Discussion Activity 4 http://www.colecamplese.com/2004/09/discussion-activity-4/ My Place to Write, Share, and Remember Sun, 05 Feb 2012 21:39:56 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: <a href="http://www.blogger.com/profile/4417836">Ryan Britt</a> http://www.colecamplese.com/2004/09/discussion-activity-4/comment-page-1/#comment-1150 Ryan Britt Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://colecamplese.com/?p=131#comment-1150 The physical size of computers has always been decreasing, from the size of a room to one that you can fit in your hand today. How small can the computer get? There must be some extreme point at which the computer will be at its smallest size. Eventually they will be paper thin, as shown in the class video, but expandable so that they can have multiple programs visible at once such as a voice chat, a document, and a video. This is already becoming the trend with the nanotechnology being developed around the world. They can be paper thin and flexible, it is just a matter of driving the cost of producing the machines down. Our everyday lives will revolve around this minute machine, and society will be connected through them as well. We will be able to transfer digital media and information to anywhere in the world at the blink of an eye.<br /> This advancement is making us more independent and dependent at the same time. We can already work from home through the use of the internet and video conferences, and in the future it will be totally useless to have the thing known as an "office". At the same time, the more we rely on the computer, the more dependent we become on the people who we communicate with while using them. We will expect everyone to be able to get in touch with us at the press of a button. If your co-worker does not reply to your message in less than 5 minutes, it could be a total disaster. We will depend on these tiny computers to meet our ever decreasing deadlines. Reports will be compiled in minutes or even seconds, and the time it takes to make up a presentation will be ridiculusly small. With this in mind, managers and "higher-up's" will expect us to be more efficient for the same wages we are getting paid today. We will no longer have a week to come up with that progress report, only a few hours at most. It will make us a more efficient society, being able to get tasks done in much less time than it presently takes. Our work will be done in the comfort of our living room and mesh shorts, but for the real "important" things (such as a video conference) we might just have to dress nice. The physical size of computers has always been decreasing, from the size of a room to one that you can fit in your hand today. How small can the computer get? There must be some extreme point at which the computer will be at its smallest size. Eventually they will be paper thin, as shown in the class video, but expandable so that they can have multiple programs visible at once such as a voice chat, a document, and a video. This is already becoming the trend with the nanotechnology being developed around the world. They can be paper thin and flexible, it is just a matter of driving the cost of producing the machines down. Our everyday lives will revolve around this minute machine, and society will be connected through them as well. We will be able to transfer digital media and information to anywhere in the world at the blink of an eye.
This advancement is making us more independent and dependent at the same time. We can already work from home through the use of the internet and video conferences, and in the future it will be totally useless to have the thing known as an “office”. At the same time, the more we rely on the computer, the more dependent we become on the people who we communicate with while using them. We will expect everyone to be able to get in touch with us at the press of a button. If your co-worker does not reply to your message in less than 5 minutes, it could be a total disaster. We will depend on these tiny computers to meet our ever decreasing deadlines. Reports will be compiled in minutes or even seconds, and the time it takes to make up a presentation will be ridiculusly small. With this in mind, managers and “higher-up’s” will expect us to be more efficient for the same wages we are getting paid today. We will no longer have a week to come up with that progress report, only a few hours at most. It will make us a more efficient society, being able to get tasks done in much less time than it presently takes. Our work will be done in the comfort of our living room and mesh shorts, but for the real “important” things (such as a video conference) we might just have to dress nice.

]]> By: <a href="http://www.blogger.com/profile/4501311">Mike Hollen</a> http://www.colecamplese.com/2004/09/discussion-activity-4/comment-page-1/#comment-1151 Mike Hollen Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://colecamplese.com/?p=131#comment-1151 Without a doubt the decreasing size makes our country as a whole much more dependent on technology. For instance, most people today probably don't remeber what it was like to type before today's word processors like Microsoft Word. Even things as young as the internet aren't even thought of as "technology" anymore due to our ever-increasing familiarity with it. As we become more accustomed to being connected at all times of the day, not mattering where we are, how can we not take technology for granted eventually?<br /><br />As dicussed in today's class, apparently a new, flimsy computer "monitor" is being produced. For what reason? Beats me. Think about it, how would a flimsy screen be useful? The answer doesn't seem clear now, but give it about 3 years. By then, the usefulness of it probably will be such that we won't be able to imagine what we'd do without it.<br /><br />While I don't think that dependence on technology is neccesarily a good thing, the efficiency and tidiness will improve our lives. For instance, soon remote controls won't be lost anymore as our TV's will be voice activated. Items of yesterday are being integrated together to become a superpowered handheld piece of machinery. In the coming years, my son/daughter may be able to go to a PSU class in the midst of a job interview. It's good to get a jump on life, but who would want to give up the college experience? Anyone? Anyone in the class ever get excited to leave home for the first time or any other time? <br /><br />Being connected to my work at all times, though, doesn't attract me. However, from the employer point of view, more things will get done in a shorter amount of time. Vacation hours should just become obsolete, since vacations as we know them probably will also.<br /><br />Yet, when you can fit as many magazines/newspapers/books into you coat pocket as is readily availiable, who can say that's not at least interesting? That alone would reduce our amounts of trash around our campus. I remember what any room in the Thomas building looks like after a day of classes.<br /><br /><br />I'm excited to experience the new things technology has to offer and see how we as a country will handle the responsibilities with attached with them. This subject reminds me of a saying that many unfortunate men have been forced to say throughout the years, "It's not the size that matters, but how you use it!" Without a doubt the decreasing size makes our country as a whole much more dependent on technology. For instance, most people today probably don’t remeber what it was like to type before today’s word processors like Microsoft Word. Even things as young as the internet aren’t even thought of as “technology” anymore due to our ever-increasing familiarity with it. As we become more accustomed to being connected at all times of the day, not mattering where we are, how can we not take technology for granted eventually?

As dicussed in today’s class, apparently a new, flimsy computer “monitor” is being produced. For what reason? Beats me. Think about it, how would a flimsy screen be useful? The answer doesn’t seem clear now, but give it about 3 years. By then, the usefulness of it probably will be such that we won’t be able to imagine what we’d do without it.

While I don’t think that dependence on technology is neccesarily a good thing, the efficiency and tidiness will improve our lives. For instance, soon remote controls won’t be lost anymore as our TV’s will be voice activated. Items of yesterday are being integrated together to become a superpowered handheld piece of machinery. In the coming years, my son/daughter may be able to go to a PSU class in the midst of a job interview. It’s good to get a jump on life, but who would want to give up the college experience? Anyone? Anyone in the class ever get excited to leave home for the first time or any other time?

Being connected to my work at all times, though, doesn’t attract me. However, from the employer point of view, more things will get done in a shorter amount of time. Vacation hours should just become obsolete, since vacations as we know them probably will also.

Yet, when you can fit as many magazines/newspapers/books into you coat pocket as is readily availiable, who can say that’s not at least interesting? That alone would reduce our amounts of trash around our campus. I remember what any room in the Thomas building looks like after a day of classes.

I’m excited to experience the new things technology has to offer and see how we as a country will handle the responsibilities with attached with them. This subject reminds me of a saying that many unfortunate men have been forced to say throughout the years, “It’s not the size that matters, but how you use it!”

]]> By: <a href="http://www.blogger.com/profile/4510699">Scott Kellerman</a> http://www.colecamplese.com/2004/09/discussion-activity-4/comment-page-1/#comment-1152 Scott Kellerman Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://colecamplese.com/?p=131#comment-1152 As discussed in class, there is an obvious trend in technology. First and foremost, computers are rapidly becoming smaller and more advanced incredibly fast. Secondly we as individuals and as a society are swiftly becoming more dependant on computers. As far as the size and advancement of computers go, the general trend can be described with the statement, “technology doubles about every eighteen months.” That summarizes a law known as Moore’s law that was predicted back in the 1960’s I believe. No matter when it was predicted, the law was very accurate until recently. Recently the trend has not slowed down as one might expect, but in fact it has accelerated. Technology now doubles every 15 months or so. We buy computers now and they become obsolete to the point where we can’t use any of the new software out on the market in a year or so. Soon we will buy a computer and we won’t be able to use the software that comes out in a month. How will we solve this problem? It was suggested in class that computers might eventually be leased on a yearly, or monthly basis. Back to the physical size of computers though, right now PDA’s (handheld computers) can do much more than the personal computers that were around 10 years ago, and they fit into the palm of your hand. I guess the average weight of a laptop computer now is 6 pounds or so. Soon enough, laptops will be paper-thin and be able to do just as much as today’s’ supercomputers. In fact, with the increasing features in cell phones, I can see your cell phone being your computer. It will be able to do everything from reading newspapers, magazines, to editing of photos, videos, and of course you’ll still be able to use it to contact whoever you want. Wait a second not only will you be able to contact whoever you want, but anyone will be able to contact you. I view this as a huge problem. I enjoy technology a lot, that’s why I’m a computer major, but I also enjoy getting away from it all. That’s why I go rock climbing, backpacking, boating, and camping in areas where I can’t even get cell phone reception if I wanted to. Soon you’ll get cell phone reception everywhere so that won’t even be an option. All I know is, I’d hate it if I’m sitting around the campfire hanging out with my friends, and everyone’s cell phone goes off. Today its friends calling friends or parents calling children, but tomorrow it will be your boss, you’ll never get away from work and take a vacation of any kind. Hell, you won’t even go into work because your boss can send everything you need for work to you at home, or on the road or wherever you are, and he or she will be able to video conference with you now matter where you are or what your doing. You will be totally dependant on the technology for work as well as every other aspect of society. People don’t have the common curtsey to deal with today’s cell phones, phones going off in class, people talking to whoever when a doctor is trying examine them, talking when out to dinner, I dread to see what the next generation will do. Already I can see people glued to their cell phones, they are totally dependant on them. Being connected is very convent and a wonderful thing, people just need to know when to use it and when not to. If the society of tomorrow is to succeed, people will have to find a balance between when to use their connection and when its not the right time, as long as there is an option to turn my computer, cell phone, or other commutation device off, I’m all for it and look forward to the limitless possibilities of the future. We can depend on technology to make our lives easier, but we still need to know how to function without it. As discussed in class, there is an obvious trend in technology. First and foremost, computers are rapidly becoming smaller and more advanced incredibly fast. Secondly we as individuals and as a society are swiftly becoming more dependant on computers. As far as the size and advancement of computers go, the general trend can be described with the statement, “technology doubles about every eighteen months.” That summarizes a law known as Moore’s law that was predicted back in the 1960’s I believe. No matter when it was predicted, the law was very accurate until recently. Recently the trend has not slowed down as one might expect, but in fact it has accelerated. Technology now doubles every 15 months or so. We buy computers now and they become obsolete to the point where we can’t use any of the new software out on the market in a year or so. Soon we will buy a computer and we won’t be able to use the software that comes out in a month. How will we solve this problem? It was suggested in class that computers might eventually be leased on a yearly, or monthly basis. Back to the physical size of computers though, right now PDA’s (handheld computers) can do much more than the personal computers that were around 10 years ago, and they fit into the palm of your hand. I guess the average weight of a laptop computer now is 6 pounds or so. Soon enough, laptops will be paper-thin and be able to do just as much as today’s’ supercomputers. In fact, with the increasing features in cell phones, I can see your cell phone being your computer. It will be able to do everything from reading newspapers, magazines, to editing of photos, videos, and of course you’ll still be able to use it to contact whoever you want. Wait a second not only will you be able to contact whoever you want, but anyone will be able to contact you. I view this as a huge problem. I enjoy technology a lot, that’s why I’m a computer major, but I also enjoy getting away from it all. That’s why I go rock climbing, backpacking, boating, and camping in areas where I can’t even get cell phone reception if I wanted to. Soon you’ll get cell phone reception everywhere so that won’t even be an option. All I know is, I’d hate it if I’m sitting around the campfire hanging out with my friends, and everyone’s cell phone goes off. Today its friends calling friends or parents calling children, but tomorrow it will be your boss, you’ll never get away from work and take a vacation of any kind. Hell, you won’t even go into work because your boss can send everything you need for work to you at home, or on the road or wherever you are, and he or she will be able to video conference with you now matter where you are or what your doing. You will be totally dependant on the technology for work as well as every other aspect of society. People don’t have the common curtsey to deal with today’s cell phones, phones going off in class, people talking to whoever when a doctor is trying examine them, talking when out to dinner, I dread to see what the next generation will do. Already I can see people glued to their cell phones, they are totally dependant on them. Being connected is very convent and a wonderful thing, people just need to know when to use it and when not to. If the society of tomorrow is to succeed, people will have to find a balance between when to use their connection and when its not the right time, as long as there is an option to turn my computer, cell phone, or other commutation device off, I’m all for it and look forward to the limitless possibilities of the future. We can depend on technology to make our lives easier, but we still need to know how to function without it.

]]> By: Isiah Jones http://www.colecamplese.com/2004/09/discussion-activity-4/comment-page-1/#comment-1153 Isiah Jones Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://colecamplese.com/?p=131#comment-1153 From the size of a large room or two to the size of my hand, computers have been and will continue to decrease in size for years to come. When will they be small enough is the question that people should ask. With all the nanofabrication stuff going on I believe that computers will decrease to microscopic size if not already possible. The idea of "faster, smaller, cheaper...," should be expanded to include more convenient and user friendly to the general population.<br /> <br /> The continual decrease in the size of computers, like everything else, can hurt and/or help our global and local society. Microscopic computers(robots) could be used to help cure injuries and illnesses rather than undergoing long hours of surgery. Linking with nanofabrication, computers could be almost as weightless and small as a sheet of paper but able to access infinite amounts of ifnormation from the web as well as contact and/or use GPS to locate anyone in the world that one would want to find. More of the worlds general population would be able to communicate with each other at an instant with plenty of visual communication for those long distance relationships. If you can recal the video shown in class then you can get an idea of where I am going. I believe computers and phones will eventually become one, allowing web access, visual and audio communications with multiple people or chat groups and up dates on news, stocks, weather etc.<br /><br /> Keeping in mind how convenient this would make computers one must also consider the fact that people won't have a reason to travel or take trips to see family and friends anymore because you can "see" them by dialing them up for a video/phone conversation just as depicted in our little class video. I would definitely appreciate the convenience of this technology but my concern is that it will only increase the gap between those who can afford to keep up with our technilogical growth and those who can't. People will become too dependent on the new way of communication, education and obtaining information that I fear future generations will only read about the way we comunicate today by accessing history files under some stupid program they pull up on their little fiber glass computer sheet. People will get too lazy to go out and explore for themselves.<br /> <br /> Lastly, work and education will be on a continuous no vacation basis. I mean you could shut everything off but when you turn the crap back on you'll have a ton of "spam" of crap from your boss and teachers etc. I already hate when I check my webmail and I have a million fricken messages for different reasons so I'd definitely hate getting bs messages from my boss and/or a professor giving me my work to do and telling me to put it in a drop box by yesterday. I say yesterday because if you turn this stuff off and then turn it on the next day you will have missed a days worth of work in less than a 24 hour time period.<br /><br /> Despite the down sides I still can't wait to see how small, fast, cheap, convenient and user friendly computers, PDAs, cell phones etc. will become. I know I'd have fun with them but I'd still get board with all that technology after awhile and want to use it to help me get a flight to Australia or Japan etc. just for a cool vacation. Then I can just send up to the minute footage of it to whom ever I want anywhere in the world. How cool would all that be? From the size of a large room or two to the size of my hand, computers have been and will continue to decrease in size for years to come. When will they be small enough is the question that people should ask. With all the nanofabrication stuff going on I believe that computers will decrease to microscopic size if not already possible. The idea of “faster, smaller, cheaper…,” should be expanded to include more convenient and user friendly to the general population.

The continual decrease in the size of computers, like everything else, can hurt and/or help our global and local society. Microscopic computers(robots) could be used to help cure injuries and illnesses rather than undergoing long hours of surgery. Linking with nanofabrication, computers could be almost as weightless and small as a sheet of paper but able to access infinite amounts of ifnormation from the web as well as contact and/or use GPS to locate anyone in the world that one would want to find. More of the worlds general population would be able to communicate with each other at an instant with plenty of visual communication for those long distance relationships. If you can recal the video shown in class then you can get an idea of where I am going. I believe computers and phones will eventually become one, allowing web access, visual and audio communications with multiple people or chat groups and up dates on news, stocks, weather etc.

Keeping in mind how convenient this would make computers one must also consider the fact that people won’t have a reason to travel or take trips to see family and friends anymore because you can “see” them by dialing them up for a video/phone conversation just as depicted in our little class video. I would definitely appreciate the convenience of this technology but my concern is that it will only increase the gap between those who can afford to keep up with our technilogical growth and those who can’t. People will become too dependent on the new way of communication, education and obtaining information that I fear future generations will only read about the way we comunicate today by accessing history files under some stupid program they pull up on their little fiber glass computer sheet. People will get too lazy to go out and explore for themselves.

Lastly, work and education will be on a continuous no vacation basis. I mean you could shut everything off but when you turn the crap back on you’ll have a ton of “spam” of crap from your boss and teachers etc. I already hate when I check my webmail and I have a million fricken messages for different reasons so I’d definitely hate getting bs messages from my boss and/or a professor giving me my work to do and telling me to put it in a drop box by yesterday. I say yesterday because if you turn this stuff off and then turn it on the next day you will have missed a days worth of work in less than a 24 hour time period.

Despite the down sides I still can’t wait to see how small, fast, cheap, convenient and user friendly computers, PDAs, cell phones etc. will become. I know I’d have fun with them but I’d still get board with all that technology after awhile and want to use it to help me get a flight to Australia or Japan etc. just for a cool vacation. Then I can just send up to the minute footage of it to whom ever I want anywhere in the world. How cool would all that be?

]]> By: <a href="http://www.blogger.com/profile/4480055">Rich</a> http://www.colecamplese.com/2004/09/discussion-activity-4/comment-page-1/#comment-1154 Rich Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://colecamplese.com/?p=131#comment-1154 "Faster, smaller, cheaper," your not kidding. Ever since the first computer was invented they have been getting smaller and fast and more powerful. I think that the first computer was the size of a room and could add and subtract. Now there is a computer that can fit inside my wrist watch that can do calculations that I could never do.<br /> Take the video we saw in class, by 2010 they will have news papers, magizines, whatever you want right at your finger tips all on one device. That will do a lot in the way of saving natural resources, like paper. Personal devices that can conect no matter where you are on the planet. Instant connect through video screens and the basic telephone no longer in exsitence.<br /> As for bussines and the world getting smaller, there is no other way for the world to go but smaller. If I am a bussiness man in the U.S, I can be on a video conference with an assioate in China or New Zeland instantly, while I am driving to work. Of course we are going to become more dependent on things of this nature. When I am in bussiness and I need an answer right away I am going to excpect one. If my employees are given tools like those disscused then I would excpect them to get back to me very fast.<br /> I think that in the future the desktop as we know it today will no longer exsist. No more big bulky machines, there will be machiens that fit in the palm of my hand, or maybe even a finger tip that will do the same things. I am not sure if this is real, but I just read about a device that sends messages through reading glasses, little senseors on your finger tips write the message and you see it in the glasses, the you can send the message anywhere you want. I think that is pretty cool. “Faster, smaller, cheaper,” your not kidding. Ever since the first computer was invented they have been getting smaller and fast and more powerful. I think that the first computer was the size of a room and could add and subtract. Now there is a computer that can fit inside my wrist watch that can do calculations that I could never do.
Take the video we saw in class, by 2010 they will have news papers, magizines, whatever you want right at your finger tips all on one device. That will do a lot in the way of saving natural resources, like paper. Personal devices that can conect no matter where you are on the planet. Instant connect through video screens and the basic telephone no longer in exsitence.
As for bussines and the world getting smaller, there is no other way for the world to go but smaller. If I am a bussiness man in the U.S, I can be on a video conference with an assioate in China or New Zeland instantly, while I am driving to work. Of course we are going to become more dependent on things of this nature. When I am in bussiness and I need an answer right away I am going to excpect one. If my employees are given tools like those disscused then I would excpect them to get back to me very fast.
I think that in the future the desktop as we know it today will no longer exsist. No more big bulky machines, there will be machiens that fit in the palm of my hand, or maybe even a finger tip that will do the same things. I am not sure if this is real, but I just read about a device that sends messages through reading glasses, little senseors on your finger tips write the message and you see it in the glasses, the you can send the message anywhere you want. I think that is pretty cool.

]]> By: <a href="http://www.blogger.com/profile/4481794">Bilal Zaki</a> http://www.colecamplese.com/2004/09/discussion-activity-4/comment-page-1/#comment-1155 Bilal Zaki Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://colecamplese.com/?p=131#comment-1155 Smaller computers have their advantages, such as mobility and weight. They also have some disadvantages that could serve as a problem in the future like storage capacity. Most affordable notebooks and laptops have about 30-40 gigabytes of storage. The more high-end ones have about 60-80GB. A lot of people today use more than one storage hardrives. Some hardrives on a Desktop PC have about 120GB. If Notebooks and Laptops do get smaller, than unless there is a way to shrink the size of the physical hardrive without shrinking its capacity, then there might be a problem. However I think there could be more than one way to store things on a computer. Maybe the use of server computers can be used as a storage device while being networked to a laptop. That way you still be able to store a massive amount of data from about anywhere. If you can hook up a wireless connection from a laptop to a server, I believe that you could solve that problem of storage capacity.<br /> The more portable something is, the easier it is to get information. I believe in the near future everyone will have a portable computer of some sort just as most people have cell phones. When the telephone came out it was a unique device that could transfer sound directly to another telephone. It was only a matter of time before cell phones were introduced. After the cell phones became more affordable it has become mainstream. Nowadays when you get on a bus, you always hear the ringtones of a cell phone go off. Pretty soon when we get on a bus we could be hearing "You've got mail" a lot more too. <br /> Many jobs these days require people working on computers. With computers becoming more mobile now, a lot of work can be done at home also. Of course that may or may not be a good thing to everyone. Smaller computers have their advantages, such as mobility and weight. They also have some disadvantages that could serve as a problem in the future like storage capacity. Most affordable notebooks and laptops have about 30-40 gigabytes of storage. The more high-end ones have about 60-80GB. A lot of people today use more than one storage hardrives. Some hardrives on a Desktop PC have about 120GB. If Notebooks and Laptops do get smaller, than unless there is a way to shrink the size of the physical hardrive without shrinking its capacity, then there might be a problem. However I think there could be more than one way to store things on a computer. Maybe the use of server computers can be used as a storage device while being networked to a laptop. That way you still be able to store a massive amount of data from about anywhere. If you can hook up a wireless connection from a laptop to a server, I believe that you could solve that problem of storage capacity.
The more portable something is, the easier it is to get information. I believe in the near future everyone will have a portable computer of some sort just as most people have cell phones. When the telephone came out it was a unique device that could transfer sound directly to another telephone. It was only a matter of time before cell phones were introduced. After the cell phones became more affordable it has become mainstream. Nowadays when you get on a bus, you always hear the ringtones of a cell phone go off. Pretty soon when we get on a bus we could be hearing “You’ve got mail” a lot more too.
Many jobs these days require people working on computers. With computers becoming more mobile now, a lot of work can be done at home also. Of course that may or may not be a good thing to everyone.

]]> By: <a href="http://www.blogger.com/profile/4480619">Tina M. McHenry</a> http://www.colecamplese.com/2004/09/discussion-activity-4/comment-page-1/#comment-1156 Tina M. McHenry Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://colecamplese.com/?p=131#comment-1156 First asking the question what effect will the continual decrease in the size of computers have on our lives and on society? Our society and the technological aspect of it, is growing immensely. Looking in conjunction with Moore's Law it is inevitable the size of different technology devices will decrease. Thinking realistically, this enables us to access our devices such as, computers, faster and more easily. Being able to carry our laptops/notebooks around effortlessly by throwing them into our briefcase or book bag with the conjunction of wireless capabilities being implemented is a great asset we were once denied.<br /><br /> When looking at the question of where or not this advancement making us more dependent or independent? This allows us to look at two different ways these advancements are affecting our lives, not whether or not one way is best. I think these advances work within a balance. Yes we in fact will most likely become dependent on these devices in our everyday lives but at the same time we are independent within our society. We will no longer have to wait to get home or to the office to type up and send a proposal or e-mail, we will be capable of accessing our devices all the time.<br /> <br />Lastly looking at what impact will it have on our work? I think it will just expedite the work force s progress. People will be able to work in a more time efficient manner within their lives, accessing work and personal life at the same time if need be. Instead of people constantly worrying about these technological advances and where we see our society and culture in the future, we should just embrace the fact the this is now and going to be a vital part of our lives and learn to appreciate it and work these advances in technology to our advantage. First asking the question what effect will the continual decrease in the size of computers have on our lives and on society? Our society and the technological aspect of it, is growing immensely. Looking in conjunction with Moore’s Law it is inevitable the size of different technology devices will decrease. Thinking realistically, this enables us to access our devices such as, computers, faster and more easily. Being able to carry our laptops/notebooks around effortlessly by throwing them into our briefcase or book bag with the conjunction of wireless capabilities being implemented is a great asset we were once denied.

When looking at the question of where or not this advancement making us more dependent or independent? This allows us to look at two different ways these advancements are affecting our lives, not whether or not one way is best. I think these advances work within a balance. Yes we in fact will most likely become dependent on these devices in our everyday lives but at the same time we are independent within our society. We will no longer have to wait to get home or to the office to type up and send a proposal or e-mail, we will be capable of accessing our devices all the time.

Lastly looking at what impact will it have on our work? I think it will just expedite the work force s progress. People will be able to work in a more time efficient manner within their lives, accessing work and personal life at the same time if need be. Instead of people constantly worrying about these technological advances and where we see our society and culture in the future, we should just embrace the fact the this is now and going to be a vital part of our lives and learn to appreciate it and work these advances in technology to our advantage.

]]> By: <a href="http://www.blogger.com/profile/2058326">Ryan</a> http://www.colecamplese.com/2004/09/discussion-activity-4/comment-page-1/#comment-1157 Ryan Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://colecamplese.com/?p=131#comment-1157 There was a time about 5 years ago when I thought to myself that technology simply could not move much further ahead than it already has. I was nearly convinced that we had moved so far, so fast, that it would all come screeching to a hault and we'd just have to say "that's it". <br />Looking back on it now, I still totally relate to how i felt back then, but I see now that we've come up with so many innovative ways of designing these new, smaller, faster products that it seems very unlikely we will ever slow down or stop. Every piece of technology you own right now will be made easier to use and easier to move within 5 years from now - it's not even a question anymore. If there is a way to do something out there, we have the minds to be able to achieve it now.<br />Going back to one of the comments before this saying that the drawback from laptops is that they can't store as much -- I don't really see that being a problem soon, because much like you said, I think we are going to have such connectivity soon that you will only need that actual device with you soon and you can simply use wireless connectivity to save any information you need. Just like the servers at school here, except you'll be able to access it from anywhere in the world. I really don't see that as being very far off. I can almost picture it now -- Walking into best buy and purchasing a server for my house and just storing it in my basement next to the furnace, completely out of the way but entirely functional from anywhere I need to use it.<br />If they are able to eliminate using hard-drives and such, products are going to shrink in size, because that does seem to be the one thing holding them back.<br />I think this eventual decrease in size is only going to keep the world more connected, more demanding, but more informed and probably happier, in the end. There's nothing I'd like more than to carry the power of my desktop with me everywhere i go, having more information in the palm of my hand than I could ever take advantage of in a lifetime. <br />I do believe there are disadvantages to this - The social problems we face today due to computers could definitely worsen if these products are made to be attached to our hips like cell phone are now. But I feel like the fact that we are realizing these problems now is going to help the engineers and designers of these prodcuts figure out better ways to implement these tools into our lives -- And really, that's what these things should be looked at as to be safe. They are simply tools for living right now - soon to be as common as your toothbrush or your car - You won't be able to function normally in this world without it, and so it HAS to be easily portable and accessible. <br />Perhaps it makes us more dependant - but it's dependancy on information, which is like depending on air, in my opinion. There was a time about 5 years ago when I thought to myself that technology simply could not move much further ahead than it already has. I was nearly convinced that we had moved so far, so fast, that it would all come screeching to a hault and we’d just have to say “that’s it”.
Looking back on it now, I still totally relate to how i felt back then, but I see now that we’ve come up with so many innovative ways of designing these new, smaller, faster products that it seems very unlikely we will ever slow down or stop. Every piece of technology you own right now will be made easier to use and easier to move within 5 years from now – it’s not even a question anymore. If there is a way to do something out there, we have the minds to be able to achieve it now.
Going back to one of the comments before this saying that the drawback from laptops is that they can’t store as much — I don’t really see that being a problem soon, because much like you said, I think we are going to have such connectivity soon that you will only need that actual device with you soon and you can simply use wireless connectivity to save any information you need. Just like the servers at school here, except you’ll be able to access it from anywhere in the world. I really don’t see that as being very far off. I can almost picture it now — Walking into best buy and purchasing a server for my house and just storing it in my basement next to the furnace, completely out of the way but entirely functional from anywhere I need to use it.
If they are able to eliminate using hard-drives and such, products are going to shrink in size, because that does seem to be the one thing holding them back.
I think this eventual decrease in size is only going to keep the world more connected, more demanding, but more informed and probably happier, in the end. There’s nothing I’d like more than to carry the power of my desktop with me everywhere i go, having more information in the palm of my hand than I could ever take advantage of in a lifetime.
I do believe there are disadvantages to this – The social problems we face today due to computers could definitely worsen if these products are made to be attached to our hips like cell phone are now. But I feel like the fact that we are realizing these problems now is going to help the engineers and designers of these prodcuts figure out better ways to implement these tools into our lives — And really, that’s what these things should be looked at as to be safe. They are simply tools for living right now – soon to be as common as your toothbrush or your car – You won’t be able to function normally in this world without it, and so it HAS to be easily portable and accessible.
Perhaps it makes us more dependant – but it’s dependancy on information, which is like depending on air, in my opinion.

]]> By: <a href="http://www.blogger.com/profile/4449255">Gerald Rausa</a> http://www.colecamplese.com/2004/09/discussion-activity-4/comment-page-1/#comment-1158 Gerald Rausa Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://colecamplese.com/?p=131#comment-1158 When I read the beginning of discussion activity four, the first thing I thought of was the first MP3 player I had about 3 years, maybe even 4 years ago. It was the newest wave of portable music. A creative labs nomad, it had 64 mb of memory; 32mb internal, and 32mb removable flash memory. This was great, I could get any ten songs or sometimes more put on this thing in any order, and I only had to pay two hundred dollars for it. Now the MP3 market has 20GB as the base model. That was merely an example of how I have observed a small part of this size decrease. <br />The effect that a continual decrease will have on our lives will probably be something in the nature of more use. With the decrease in size and cost, more and more people will be using the newer forms of technology because they are more convenient with their size, and more affordable due to the decreasing prices. Every day that passes we are becoming more and more dependent on technology, and this advancement will increase our dependence on technology, but the technology is becoming more and more reliable in turn compensating for the dependence. As we've already seen work can be done almost anywhere. The decrease in size will make work easier to do at any place, at any time. This is a positive and a negative event. Because although it's easier to do work, you may never be able to get away from it. When I read the beginning of discussion activity four, the first thing I thought of was the first MP3 player I had about 3 years, maybe even 4 years ago. It was the newest wave of portable music. A creative labs nomad, it had 64 mb of memory; 32mb internal, and 32mb removable flash memory. This was great, I could get any ten songs or sometimes more put on this thing in any order, and I only had to pay two hundred dollars for it. Now the MP3 market has 20GB as the base model. That was merely an example of how I have observed a small part of this size decrease.
The effect that a continual decrease will have on our lives will probably be something in the nature of more use. With the decrease in size and cost, more and more people will be using the newer forms of technology because they are more convenient with their size, and more affordable due to the decreasing prices. Every day that passes we are becoming more and more dependent on technology, and this advancement will increase our dependence on technology, but the technology is becoming more and more reliable in turn compensating for the dependence. As we’ve already seen work can be done almost anywhere. The decrease in size will make work easier to do at any place, at any time. This is a positive and a negative event. Because although it’s easier to do work, you may never be able to get away from it.

]]> By: <a href="http://www.blogger.com/profile/2302512">Betsy</a> http://www.colecamplese.com/2004/09/discussion-activity-4/comment-page-1/#comment-1159 Betsy Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://colecamplese.com/?p=131#comment-1159 The observation made by Gordon Moore in 1965, which led to Moore’s Law was that the number of transistors per square inch on integrated circuits had doubled every year since the integrated circuit was invented, due to that observation he stated that data density would continue to double approximately every 18 months. The observation that Moore had made has proven to be true, however it seems that due to the everyday advancements every 18 months has changed to every 15 months, which is making it difficult to keep the technology we have up to date. <br /> Due to fact that we as a society have over the years become completely dependent on technology it makes keeping up with the daily changes a challenge. When looking at where we used to be with computers, mainframes in the 1950s to notebook computers and handheld PDAs, shows just how far we’ve come as a society and how little time it has taken us to get here. Computers have become embedded in our daily lives due to the fact their found in every aspect of our lives from the scanners at the supermarket, to the PC sitting in our home office, to the cell phone in our pocket. With computers becoming smaller, it’s making it much easier for us to have all the information we need right in the palm of our hand. Since there has been a continual decrease in the size of computers we’re going to see that in the future there will be no place in our daily lives that a computer won’t be part of. Computers are going to be found in every aspect of society giving us all the information we need. We’re going to be able to read any book, magazine article, watch movies, communicate with one another directly, take photos and develop them all with the click of our mouse. When you look at where we’ve been and the progress we’ve made it’s obvious that we’re going to become a society driven on advancements in technology and based on computers. <br /> All of these technological changes are reshaping the workplace. These advancements are helping us and going to continue to help us stay connected with one another, be more efficient, and in the end save time. Currently we’re able to have business meetings without traveling and communicate with one another instantaneously. In the future we’re going to be able to do more work from our homes, due to the fact everything we’re going to need will fit into nicely in our briefcases, no offices needed. More work is going to be accomplished on a daily basis because it’s becoming easier to get work done since everything we need to do our jobs is going to only be a click away. Getting work done is no longer going to be stressful due to useful changes in technology.<br /> Looking at the technology we have to today we need to understand where we’ve been and see where we’re heading. We see that technology is always going to be changing and advancing and we need to learn to appreciate it and take advantage of what we have, because it’s always going to be a part a fundamental part of our daily lives. The observation made by Gordon Moore in 1965, which led to Moore’s Law was that the number of transistors per square inch on integrated circuits had doubled every year since the integrated circuit was invented, due to that observation he stated that data density would continue to double approximately every 18 months. The observation that Moore had made has proven to be true, however it seems that due to the everyday advancements every 18 months has changed to every 15 months, which is making it difficult to keep the technology we have up to date.
Due to fact that we as a society have over the years become completely dependent on technology it makes keeping up with the daily changes a challenge. When looking at where we used to be with computers, mainframes in the 1950s to notebook computers and handheld PDAs, shows just how far we’ve come as a society and how little time it has taken us to get here. Computers have become embedded in our daily lives due to the fact their found in every aspect of our lives from the scanners at the supermarket, to the PC sitting in our home office, to the cell phone in our pocket. With computers becoming smaller, it’s making it much easier for us to have all the information we need right in the palm of our hand. Since there has been a continual decrease in the size of computers we’re going to see that in the future there will be no place in our daily lives that a computer won’t be part of. Computers are going to be found in every aspect of society giving us all the information we need. We’re going to be able to read any book, magazine article, watch movies, communicate with one another directly, take photos and develop them all with the click of our mouse. When you look at where we’ve been and the progress we’ve made it’s obvious that we’re going to become a society driven on advancements in technology and based on computers.
All of these technological changes are reshaping the workplace. These advancements are helping us and going to continue to help us stay connected with one another, be more efficient, and in the end save time. Currently we’re able to have business meetings without traveling and communicate with one another instantaneously. In the future we’re going to be able to do more work from our homes, due to the fact everything we’re going to need will fit into nicely in our briefcases, no offices needed. More work is going to be accomplished on a daily basis because it’s becoming easier to get work done since everything we need to do our jobs is going to only be a click away. Getting work done is no longer going to be stressful due to useful changes in technology.
Looking at the technology we have to today we need to understand where we’ve been and see where we’re heading. We see that technology is always going to be changing and advancing and we need to learn to appreciate it and take advantage of what we have, because it’s always going to be a part a fundamental part of our daily lives.

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