Summary

Before the class, we read the lecture Sandy Stone's “Welcome to the present” Frankly speaking; I couldn’t understand whole information about that. But one word I can remember, ‘reality’. The development of technology, it’s too difficult classification with reality and virtual. The author mentioned some examples with movies. Like Jurassic Park and Star Wars. On the screen show the real world, but exactly it is not real.

First class, the professor mentioned about the two key points. When digital media technologies connect or separate people, they become media. So, what is media? What is connect or separate. I didn’t understand about that sentence. But, I could comprehend partly, when we talked for the example about car. The car can be connecting with many things, for example, the car connects with movement, speed, accident and other things uncounted. Furthermore, in this time, the car connects to the level of personal fortune. It is not simple thing, so, I think the objective when we invented a car was spare a person trouble. And then, this thing will separate to people who have money and no money. Then, we talked about computer technology and the two building blocks of computers (switch and connectors).
Second class, we talked about the “As we may think” by Vannevar Bush. The author is one of the scientists we have to know. So, his academic achievements have been recognized. The first part of his lecture, he mentioned about how is developing technology in this time. Many people are working and studying to improve human being and many things was invented. And also, the quantity of information is increasing more and more. But he wanted change and break the method to searching and finding information. And he thought up the “memex”. The memex is the device electronically linked to a library and could be display books and films from the library and automatically follow cross-references from one work to another. The memex has influenced the development of hypertext and intellect increase computer systems, but his idea ‘memex’ could not realize. But we can understand concept of memex in the web, the link is very similar to ‘memex’.

Finally, we have to think about the consequence and how affect technology to human being. This subject would be helping me in various ways. And I learned very important point with these two classes. The thing is “thinking different.” So we have to break a fixed idea and need a creative mind.