Week 5 lesson discusses the influence of infocomm tehnology (ICT) on world change.
The different forms of ICT in today's world include mass media, the Internet, information systems, cloud computing, gaming and more. The development of technology drives the evolution of ICT. Prof quoted John Naisbitt, which struck me: “The
most exciting breakthroughs of the 21st century will not occur because of
technology but because of an expanding concept of what it means to be human.”
This shows our innate need to innovate, and this innovation is made evident through the development of technology. I find this quote compelling because of our increasing reliance towards technology. Personally, i think that the development, is correlated our level of dependence towards technology. In today's modern world, it is undeniale that technology has been integrated in our daily affairs. An ideal example would be a mobile phone. Can you imagine your life without a mobile phone? If you ask me that question, my answer would be a no. This brings us to the video showed in class:
Basically, this video shows an unpublished game which allow user and virtual game interactions. This left me awestruck. It's really impressive how far technology has gone! At the same time, wouldn't the development of such games further increase our reliance on technology? On worst case scenarios, we can't even differentiate between real life and virtual life. As such, shouldn't there be some form of restriction or limitation which can deviate such cases? Currently, there exists cases where people face difficulty differentiating virtual and real world.
Hence, I conclude that it is important to draw a boundary between virtual world and real world. Maybe we can raise awareness towards this issue as one of the preventive measures.
Also, presentations in class were both entertaining and informative.
Overall, I rate this lesson an 8/10!
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