5000 Day's of Web

“The web is us, all screens look into one, No bits live outside the web, to share is to gain, Let one read it”
“It’s Amazing and we’re not amazed” (Kevin Kelly). I couldn’t agree with this statement more. The web is the world’s biggest machine, and the most reliable with no downtime as Kevin said and we just take it for granted. To some of us its second nature like breathing, to others its new and we are still learning how to use it, but we better learn fast because its growing and more and more businesses and people are relying on it. Some of the biggest things that stuck out to me in this video were : 100 billion clicks per day, 55 trillion links between web pages in the world, 1 billion PC chips on the internet, 2 million emails per second, 1 million IM messages per second, and 65 billion phone calls per year. That to me is truly amazing how much we use the web and what we use it for. Kevin said it best the web is like the Blackhole sucking more and more in everyday. The last thing that really grabbed my attention and is kind of scary to think about is the web is equal to one human brain, 30 years from now the web will equal 30 billion human brains, and in 2040 the web will exceed humanity in processing power! If that doesn’t give you something to ponder on I don’t know what will….

Web 2.0

Five years ago I never even really used the internet, now I’m on it constantly. I look up household questions on there, home remedies, and ideas for dinner, I even did Weight Watcher online. I use Facebook on a daily basis, I used to have Myspace too, but it was too much to have two social networks going on at once. I just started doing more shopping online. Before I would only purchase my school books on here, now I buy yard toys, clothes, and beauty products. I started my own online business a couple years ago, I’m no longer doing it, but I would sell product for another company and get a percentage of the profit from it. I also sell my used textbooks on Craigslist. The obvious is that I take online classes, when I started school back in 2008 I never even dreamed of doing online classes, now I take at least one a semester.
It’s crazy how much daily usage I get out of the web, I never even notice until now. I used to be afraid to put my credit card online, but now I will pay certain bills online and only order from certain websites. The business I was in said that by 2000 something more than 90% of the public would do all their shopping online and I’m pretty sure they were right, maybe I should have stuck it out. If you think of everything we can do using the web today, watch movies, talk to people in a different country using Skype, take college classes, and do all our shopping, etc it amazes me . In the next 10 years we won’t have to leave our house to go to the doctors you could do all the check up on Skype or drive your car it will automatically drive itself with all the technology we have in going into cars today. I use the web so much already I’m honestly scared of how much I will use it in the future. This class is already opening my eyes up to how dependent I am on the web there are some many more things that keep coming to mind that I use the web for and never even gave it a thought. I’m thinking that maybe I should take a step back from it and find alternatives to the web.

My thoughts

I'm not completely sure what I'm going to learn about in this class besides blogging and how to incorporate a couple devices with the computer, which will be great. Some things in this class will be second nature like blogging, I use facebook all the time and I used to have a Myspace page too. There is going to be others that drive me nut like how to get this headphone with mic. set to work, been trying for days and still can't figure it out. I hope to take a few things from this class that I can actually use in my everyday life, and learn a few things that just make it interesting. To be honest I'm pretty nervous on how this class will go considering its an online course and it has to do with learning more about computers and media, for example what do I do if I just can figure something out even with help from the teacher and my peers then what? what do you do? On top of this class I have two other classes and come to find out they all start and end on the same days of the week so this should make things a bit interesting and hard to follow ....I can handle it though I'm determined to do my very best and take something out of every class I take. I have taken a few classes online in the past but no more than two at a time, this is another new experience to see how much I can handle and how well I multitask. I'm looking forward to meeting my classmates and getting their opinions on things.

MULTIMEDIA APPS & TOOLS

I had this blog page from a previous class and figured it was easiest to just use it concidering it took me some time to put this one together and learn how to use it. Looking forward to new followers and a new semester!