End of Semester

Coming to an end of another semester i feel that my studies have brought me that just bit closer to graduation. Just one more semester to go! New Communication Technology subject has taught me a lot not just about technology but a lot about the way we view technology and how we as human beings communicate with each other. It's mind blowing to think that we have come so far in history to this very moment with communication that is not just local or state wide, but nationally. We are now able to communicate in every language possible with the help of new technological advances that help us translate a medium to a language we understand.

At the start of this course I didn't really know much about how all this technology or even how communication came to be, but after attending lectures and tutes I learnt that what I had predisposed of what was communication was not all true. I thought communication was simple as did Aristotle but, alarmingly it is quite complex and intricate.

Watching that first film with Lemmy Caution made me think about what people in the past had envisaged of the future and futuristic advances in technology. A dystopiatic world where computers rule and humans submiss. It's unthinkable to most of us, but certain themes in many movies discuss this. The other movie Exitenz permissed me great confusion. I didn't really know in the end whether they were actually out or in the game still. I gues you need to watch it more than once to really understand it. But if that what games are gonna be like in the future than I'm sure I'll be playing it. Virtuality like that in the movie are so very interactive unlike games we have now to some extent. Games have a big future I think.

Why is it that the simplest forms of things can be so interesting? Just like that 'word movie' Cocaine, only a black background and white words display on the screen enticing the viewer to read the story and imagine for themself. Even though there are no pictures, the words get more faster and faster as the story escalates. Brilliant piece of work I thought. Simple but effective.

I wrote my essay on Wikipedia and how it is not as bad as critics say it is. What a lot of academics and critics forget to see is that it is still a young encyclopedia and in some retrospect still in birth. Even though it is written by muchly anomynous contributors a lot of academic work does not come from just universities or research areas but can also come from people like you and me. Think about those research papers you wrote in primary school. You weren't an academic then but who said you couldn't write what you want. The use of a web site is entirely up to the disgression of the user and how they percieve the information whether it be true or false. However, even though Wikipedia may be dismissed by academics now, maybe in the future it will first information source we turn to. Don't judge a book by it's cover.

Overall this course has taught me some really knowledgable things that are certainly going to help me in the future. I now see two sides of the story and have started to think outside the box.