The future of learning and music

A group presented on the future of learning today and it was interesting because they said that in the future it would be possible for entire degrees and courses online.

Imagine how much time could be saved! This way we won’t have to attend classes since they take forever just to get to. It takes me about 2 hours to go to and fro from school. Not only that, but learning online can greatly reduce the length of the entire course so a diploma could take six months if effort was put in to study hard. Sounds good to me!

Aaron also spoke about youtube videos and live concerts. It was an interesting speech but I think I found a flaw in having live ‘online’ concerts. It sounds good on the surface however if a band visits your country and tours there, why would you watch the concert when you’ve already seen the one in Tokyo and New York via youtube? They will be playing the same thing so a live concert won’t be that big a deal.

 

Future of Journalism

A group presented about the future of journalism. It was an interesting topic because they were saying that the journalists will eventually run out of jobs. That was quite funny in my opinion because the group made it seem like newspapers would eventually run out of business.

Come on, that can’t happen. Whenever there is a need, there will be a provider for it. Newspapers will always be needed because people will need their local news at their doorstep in the morning while they drink their coffee.

It will take a long while before we get coffee tables with built in computers which can read news aloud. From now til then though, newspapers will be the number one source of news.

Taking pictures with my fingers

Ms Kwa showed us a video today about a lecturer and a student who came up with a product called ‘sixth sense’ which reads other people and releases floating digital tags on their t-shirt. Besides that which is really cool, it brings a portable digital surface with you.

Any person can walk up to a wall and shine their ‘sixth sense’ on it to reveal a computer surface which they can interact with like a iphone operating system.

This is incredible of course because now we can all walk around with portable computers. The problem with this device is that it looks like a projector around someone’s neck. Haha it’s ugly but then again, most devices look ugly when they are initially created.

Think of the first Mac. Eeew.

My presentation

Today I presented on the Future of PR. I think the class didn’;t really understand the main point behind our message that PR in social media will grow so fast that it will also die out fast.

Nowadays PR firms and business people pick up on trends so fast that the edge of using social media will be exploited very fast.

As my group presented, it sounds nice at first but eventually seeing messages being said over and over again on twitter, youtube, facebook and myspace.

Hello world!

Welcome to WordPress.com. This is your first post. Edit or delete it and start blogging!