Future of the Internet

If I knew what is going to happen in future, for sure, I would have become the riches person in the world now.

Actually, 2019 is not that far from now just 10 more years.

So, in 10 years time people will spend more time using computer. Will be less face-to-face communication, people will prefer virtual reality. In my opinion, future will be something like in the movie 'minority report'. The technologies will be more advanced and they will give more opportunities to people. Like e-learning will be more popular among people, majority will shop online. Hope that people will not become more obese, due to the lack of movement and spending more time with the computer.

The one thing I do not want to happen in future is what shown in the movie "Wall-e". When people left the planet earth and lived on the space ship.

Journalism and the Internet

Internet gives a freedom for opinion expression. Every one nowadays can write his/her NEWS and let other people to read them.

Journalism is not the same thing as it used to be,technology has changed it a lot. Internet is seen as a main reason for this trend. The main reason is that "on the Internet there is essentially an unlimited amount of time and an unlimited amount of space" (Cerf 2).

In my opinion, it is unnecessary for me to explain what is online journalism or citizen journalism because you just can watch this video



Well, it is clear from this video that the number of Internet journalists is growing up.
In my opinion citizen journalism give people a lot of opportunities to express themselves. Of course, there is not enough place in all newspapers and magazines for all people who desire to be journalists to work and here comes the Internet and tells all those people: "Come I write write what ever you want here, let other people to here opinion!" Is not it a good option? If I had a dream of becoming a famous journalist I would have started from expressing my opinion on the Internet.

Internet and Politics

Year 2009 has changed a lot in the way people perceive the correlation between Internet and the politics; the main event is the American president elections and how well Obama and his PR managers used Internet for presidential campaign.

Nowadays, we all can feel how fast the technology is developing. Internet today is the most common medium used by people, some even relay on Internet sources more than on newspapers and magazines, in my opinion this people are doing the right thing. Why do you need to spend money and by newspapers when you can access exactly the same information online? (Finally, lets thing about nature and save the trees). Nowadays, the Internet sources even provide us videos of the issue you are interested in, it can be an interview or the description of the event and this means that you do not even have to READ just listen and absorb.

Obama is a clever man, but honestly I think that it was not his idea to use Internet as a main source to get people's attention and attract them. It was an idea of a highly qualified PR managers and how saw the huge opportunity of using the Internet as a main weapon in the elections; moreover, I thing that a lot of research was done before the starting of the campaign, in order to see whether American people are ready or not to accept political information online. You see, politics is not a joke, it is not something like online shopping. Moreover, it is a PRESIDENT election.

So what I am trying to say here is that, Internet politics is a very new phenomenon, which appeared after a very careful analysis of people's attitudes towards Internet and what kind of information they are seeking online. The first experience is extremely successful: Obama has 'conquered' the whole country; moreover, he gave people a hope for future.

In year 2008 there was an elections in my country and they are the extreme opposite to American one's. Honestly, it makes me laugh when I compare this two. Firstly, let's watch this video



Ok, not only Dmitry Medvedev had rejected to take part in TV debates, but also he rejected all mass medium to get to people.

1. There was no political campaigns created for president elections or I might just do not know about their existence.

You see the problem is that people we not familiar with the candidates intentions.

2. The elections were not covered enough in mass media.

3. Forget about the Internet for the Russian elections.

THE ONLU ONE THING WHAT I CAN SAY FOR SURE IS THAT IS HAS ALREADY BEEN DECIDED WHO WILL BE THE NEXT PRESIDENT. PEOPLE'S OPINIONS IS NOTHING. SO WHY MONEY HAS TO BE SPEND ON STUPID POLITICAL COMPAIGNS?

Marketing communication.

Ok let's look at the video first



Interesting, is not it? Children barely know who Jesus Christ is; whereas, when they saw the picture of Roland McDonald they started to giggle and with out hesitation said who was he. In the video it was mentioned, that McDonald's spends tones of money on direct media advertising, only in 2004 they spend 1.4 billion US dollars worldwide... Therefore, this statistics made me very interested in what kind of commercials McDonald's creates and I found this video:



Hilarious, is not it?
Ok, this commercial is not very rich in multimedia; however, is has the MOST IMPORTANT attention grabber: HUMOR. And of course, nice music and funny characters.
This video is very easy to process and understand.
If you read the comments of the video, you will see that people really loved it and enjoyed watching.

Cybercrimes....

Actually, I am not very familiar with the history of the cybercrimes in Singapore; therefore, I would like to talk a bit about what I know about cybercrimes in my country.

In my opinion Russia is still stuck in the Stone Age. What I mean is that not all parts of my "mighty" country are developed, in my opinion, there some places in Russia where people do not know what is Internet and that thing like this can exist. Unbelievable, ye right I know.

I am not talking about central part of Russia here, like Moscow, where people are so selfish that they do not want to think that other "Russian people" can exist except them.... So moving onto my place, somewhere in the Far East where Internet came around year 2000 people still do not know about such thing like WI-FI and high speed Internet) Sounds very sad for me but not for you.

So what I am trying to say here, is that only minority of people, the most brilliant, know not only how to use Internet, but also, how to get other people’s money with the help of the Internet. As you know from our class this week, Mr. Choy was talking about all different kinds of cybercrimes. So this is my story....

Once upon a time there lived a very smart and up-to-date guy, who was moving in one step with the booming technology. In the 98, he got his first computer and Internet access, being only 12 years old he got very interested in his new 'toy'. And he spend sooo much time with it, playing and trying to understand how all the programs work that one day he simply made a new computer from the two old ones...

As you know when you are so young you do not listen to elder people trying to do everything yourself, and in my place people are always looking for the easy ways to get money. So by that time our friend was about 14 years old, and when he came across on-line shopping some crazy idea struck his head..... "what if??" he thought.

One day he gathered two other his friends, by the way, who were very familiar with the computers, and 3 of them, started to think how to break in somebody’s computer and steal the credit card information so that the opportunity of on-line shopping will be opened before them.

Somehow, sadly, but this is another story, they stole the credit card number and the particulars of its holder (what an ass that guy should be) and went to shop on-line.

But about one week later, can you imagine the amazement of our friend’s parents when, some important person called them and informed that the newest computer and hundreds of other very expensive gadgets were bought on-line and the delivery address was their home address.

(Haha our poor genius did not expect such a turn)

Than the person informed the parents that the credit card that was used to pay the bill was stolen…. Ooooops so what does this mean?

Honestly, it is a real life example and the smart guy in my step-brother)

SO here I gave you a classical example of phishing. Where the credit card number was stolen and used for on-line shopping.

Week 6, Internet tools.

Today, we shall look at Internet tool and first to show you an video about Goofle Mars:



Is it amazing how fast out technology is developing? Last time we could not see our planet and nowadays, we can easily explore Mars, using Google.

AND NOW.... MY VIDEO which I have created using Windows Movie Maker:


Horray, I finally, did it. Hope you will enjoy it.

Week 5, E-Learning

For me the idea of distant learning still sounds crazy, honestly, I cannot imagine how our traditional schools will look like in 20 years time.

1. Maybe, there won't be any buildings at all.... nothing, and ONLY ONE thing that you will need is a pair of virtual glasses....

Scary, is not it?

2. Or can you imagine, than when a child is born a very powerful, suppa-duppa chip is placed into the brain, so that you do not need to go to school at all, just upload a program to your brain....

This sounds even worse for me.

Ok, coming down to reality, in my opinion it is great about what Internet can provide us today. Distance learning, or even we are here studying almost on-line..... A huge opportunity for a personal development.
Other question, is whether people will use this opportunities?