Friday, February 28, 2014

Wireless Communications and Viral posts

People in this fast changing world rely on wireless communication for just about anything. Adults even children at the age of 7 or 6 has a wireless device or many from cell phones, to Ipads, tablets, even their own personal computers and laptops!
While communicating online is cool and all, it still would a dangerous zone to be in. It can be dangerous for young people and adults because it can be accessed by people you do not even know or it can be someone that is talking to you on a social network that you know of or might not know of; what if they are not the person you know, what if they are some maniac person trying to get you to do something???? Things can take a wrong turn easily in wireless communication. This world has many people that do just that, from stockers to hackers.
Some ways that you can be safe around situations like this is to tell a parent or guardian something that you saw while either texting or chatting on social networks that might be inappropriate. It could be from your friend or it could be from a total complete stranger, but parents and guardians in this case, can look into the matter more than you can. They can help you resolve this problem or they can just find someone who can. Another way to be safe with communicating wirelessly, is to talk to someone you know or even question them if you are not sure or in doubt who that person is. Think of questions that only the person you do know face to face that knows that answer more than anyone else can. Another idea is that to just not talk to the person at all if you're in doubt.
Now, many other things other than wireless communication can be dangerous, like videos, photos, texts, and other posts on social media or any website going viral. Sometimes videos or photos etc that go viral might be a good thing, but sometimes these things can actually cause harm to someone either physically or mentally or maybe even sometimes both. They can be a good thing because take YouTube for example, people all around the world are posting millions of videos every day more than 2 days or 48 hours worth of videos comes in every minute! These videos sometimes have the main goal: to go viral or become the most popular, watched videos. Out of all these videos that are posted every day, only a tiny percentage of videos ever go viral. Viral videos/photos become viral by mostly online sharing to other people. This is why it's a good thing because the people that posted those viral videos will soon maybe become a star and a sensation to the world because of the viral videos that they made. So the point is that it's easy to post videos, but it's hard for them to become viral.
Viral videos or pics etc can also be a bad thing, because sometimes those videos or photos are inappropriate for young viewers and it can hurt the person in the photo/video or it can hurt the person seeing the photo/video. It can also make other people or maybe even their friends and families think about them in a more different way than they used to. So in the end, viral videos/photos etc can lead to a good future or bad consequences.


Facts about wireless communications: http://www.epiccoolthings.com/a-few-facts-about-wireless-communication/

Friday, February 21, 2014

Future Computers and Cloud Computing

Computers are machines that helps a person learn and help their work become faster and easier to do. Cloud computing is an infinite amount of storage that one can use to their needs. They can choose to use it to store their work, school, or even personal files one their cloud server. When people need their files to be transferred from their cloud to their personal computer, they can just sync it into their computer. Just think that computers and cloud computing are friends and everyone knows that all people are different and similar in their own way.
They are similar because they work together to let you do your work and it is easier and faster by using the computer to do it and storing it in the cloud by using cloud computing. They are both stress free because you do not have to worry about all of those papers flying around and being unorganized, the computer can organize anything and you can store it in the cloud server by using cloud computing. Their differences are, first of all, a computer is something that both work and stores some information because it has a limited amount of storage and clouding computing is just a series of gigantic storage servers that stores infinite amount of information than anything else in the world. Secondly, cloud computing is a worry free technology because it takes all of your worries about running out of storage. Lastly, cloud computing can be dangerous because you're giving your information to a third party and that might put your files at a great risk, so before choosing a cloud server to put your information in, make sure that it has the best security and that it can keep your files safe and secure.
Things change over time, believe it or not. People change by age and height. Nature and weather changes everyday. While everything else in the world are changing, computers and other technology are changing as well. Also as time is moving forward, computers are becoming part of everyone's lives. Other models are beginning to advance while time goes on, others are beginning to grow old as time grows old. Maybe in 5 years computers might improve a little, but the technology might not change that much. Computers now will look totally different in 15 years. They might have more technology and ideas that allow computer engineers to design the computers to be thinner or faster etc. Everything about computers might be different, from the inside and out. I think that computers might look somewhat like holographic screens that you can touch and type on just like you would do on a computer, its just going to be a device free technology. I also think that technology can advance so much that soon computers will be in everyone's houses and it will probably be cheaper (I hope it is). We might even soon stop using paper and pencil and rely on computers for everything.

The main idea is that both work together to serve the world and its future generations and it is constantly changing to benefit the world as it is in as time goes forward.

Check this link out about a device that projects a portable keyboard for anything!: http://t-future.com/magic-cube-virtual-laser-keyboard/

Sunday, February 16, 2014

What Is Digital Literacy?


''What is digital literacy??'' This is a type of question you don't usually hear much. So what is it then? digital literacy is the ability to navigate through the internet in a safe way and in a responsible way. So why this question? Well, people in the world need to know about digital literacy because it can impact their life on the internet and it can as well impact those around you. What I would want to learn about digital literacy is that what percentage of people in the world know about digital literacy or even practice it. Digital literacy is an important skill set for life because it helps someone to be responsible on the internet in all sorts of different categories like social media, researching for a project or for something, and talking or chatting over the internet to a friend, family member, or even a stranger etc. People in the world need to know how to use the internet as a mature citizen and that is why they need this skill of digital literacy to do just that. The Internet is where people can write about their ideas or emails, talk to other people, or even spread the word about something they are promoting or something that they just want to spread the word about. The Internet is a powerful tool for mankind to use, but it has its advantages and disadvantages. It's advantages are that people can do just about anything and I mean ''everything'' anything, watch movies instantly, learn about new skills, read books online or digitally, have school textbooks online, or even chat to people all across the world. It's disadvantages are like the stuff you post online can be either seen by people that you don't know and maybe the stuff that you are posting can mean the wrong way to some people. You can do pretty much anything online and even now people in the world is moving from a world of paper and pencils or pens to a digital world of new learning. Back then books would be a privilege to have because not many people can read or write. The literacy rates were not that high, but as the world moves through many centuries things started to change. Books was not a privilege anymore and the literacy rates are going up throughout the world. Technology is a privilege to the world when it was first discovered because it was too expensive many people in the world right now in different countries don't even have Internet or even any digital items like computers or tablets. The world right now is moving on, so that those people from those countries can have what we have in the United States like technology and other stuff. We need to be grateful for what we have as people that live in the United States and that includes our abilities to read and write and our abilities to use digital items and be an expert in digital literacy. Digital Literacy is more than just knowing how to send emails or fix a problem on the computer or electronic devices, it's more of the knowledge of knowing how to use the web responsively for various purposes. This skill would be essential for success for businesses or for students in high school and newly graduated young adults who are continuing their journey of education and for their new life ahead with technology. The goal of digital literacy is to teach people digital skills and prepare them for colleges and careers. This information can be found in this article: What is Digital Literacy?