Utopia- Building our own walls

From the moment you log onto the internet and begin to regularly vist the same few websites, you create your own Utopia. But are we really expanding our own worlds, or are we just building our selves in? I like to think that the internet has enclosed us in our own pens by giving us the freedom to choose which pens we live in. The internet both unites us and separates us, it techs us and keeps us i the dark. It does this by giving us the entire world at once, when we can only see eye-fulls at a time.
A prison is more than just a cell, sometimes it's relising that the field ends at the river.

Politics trying 'cool'

KEVIN RUDD IS ON FACEBOOK! i TOLD you it was hell!
But beside that, technolgy really has bracncehed all boundries. There is no more jobs or groups of people that can't find some use for the internet. I know this, you know this.
But honestly, i'm confuesed this week (didn't help with CLASS being skipped!!) To me, Cyberpolictics sound like a whole lot of digging for dirt, backstabing and doubble stands all on the internet. Or, the on going debaute online weather StarWars or StarTrek is cooler.

Free with a cost

My, it's been a long time since i last wrote. Hi! So, we've all come across those things that 'claim' to be free, right? And like most people, i've leart to never trust anything unless you can see its motive. But what about free software? Untill recently, i never knew that all four of my computers have about 90% free sortware...with no complaints.
But i still like to point out this word 'free' and how often it appears on the net. Viruse, bugs and wodden hourses (i can see my neard friend twicthing as i wrote that) all seem to come with that word 'free'. So when people see 'free' software, is it just safe to pay the money for reliable software or should you risk it?

I suppose that really isn't the problem, it's weather you have a friend who can fix your computer for 'free'.

The all Consuming Internet

Here's a thought, for everything you encounter on the Internet that you didn't like, it's technically your fault. Yeah!
Why? because it's there due to consumer demands; that and the fact that you all just complain instead of trying to contribute quality.
We have the Powera! Every single person who is right now reading this is guilty of neglection, we should rise up and stand united against every bloody computer comic that thinks it's funny!!
But as much as we create the internet, we also are feed by the internet. So, there's another reason to demand quailty from the intenet. How, you might ask, well simple think of one thing that you can't find on the internet. Go on, have a good long think about it. See? our whole world is filtuered though the intenet, which in turn goes though us and then back to the internet.

It's all connected, man.

I'm really a girl! No, really!

I happen to hang around a group of computer geeks, who get very close to talking in 1s and 0s. Me? I've never gotten my head around it... but i can kick all their butts in what ever game they care to show me! I see the Internet, not as a place for friends database, but more for entertainment. So, when you say social media, i think about the crack of the gaming world, WoW, to which i am sadly addicted to. But when you talk to different groups about this, you'll get different answers. Talk to anyone on Today Tonight and you'll get all this conspiracy crap of how there are bad people on the Internet, trying to rob you of what ever they particular want from you.

But it all comes back to when the first nerd was beaten up for beaning on the Internet, how years later, those who beat up the nerds are now on the Internet more time then they actually are with their friends (go on, tally it up)
Am i the only one that thinks that it's sad to brag about how many friends you have on facebook? AM I THE LAST SANE HUMAN?

Cinema, the Record Player in the Entertainment world

So, as time goes on, we all forget our 'fav' song of the year (Ketchup song, by Las Ketchup! oh yea, that song was just awesome). It seems the same can be said about everything; today's iPods, tomorrow's gameboy (forgive the nerdiness). What i suppose the true irony is the whole fans idea that 'this will last forever'. Cinema was the new sparkly object of the early 1900s, to be improved with sound and colour. Tell anyone back then that it would be surpased by t.v, they would have laughed. Tell anyone 30 years ago that t.v would be surpassed by computers, they would have laughed. Tell anyone today that computer will be surpassed by digatal mind links, they'll laugh.

Letting everyone know that i f$#king called it. For more info on the logically adavancement of entertainment, go here.

Déjà Film?

As you, unwavering supporters may know by now, i am a uni student, so I've dove at least one semester of it. I've done film, so it came as a shock to me that one of my class was reviewing old grounds. However, let me inform you on just how basic it was of a class. Basically, we've all seen a bad film and thought we could do better, but it's more than that. For every scene, you need to ask yourself 'who, what, when, where, why, how' for everything you show in that shot.
Then there are camera angles, how much of the subject do you want to show and why? Basically, the subject techs you to view films as 'artsy'.

Great events are only considered great by future generations

It is intresting to think that, as the way we are now, if the group called Luddites had gotten their way, our world would be quite diffrenet. Not to go off track with this thought, but dispite the way histoic people are protrade, they started with nothing more than an idea. This is when the older generation tells the younger generatin that they 'can do anything if only you believe'. I'm not saying that this isn't true, but the problem as i see it, is that the world is pretty right now, that there isn't opotunity for another great technoogy advance. That humans are just fine tunning the world till space becomes the better optionion.
But, 50 years ago, were there people who thought the same thing, who laughed at the invention ideas that people had, or did they live in a world where everyone could see room for improvement?

I'm trying to think of a machine that came before the computer, that was less complex but still help with it's development. BRB

Change is progression, a slow thing that is never really noticed untill you consider it.

Have you every wounded on just how your generation dealt with technology advances? Did you adapted to it or were you left behind?
The other day, i discovered that almost everyone in my generation was on Fackbook, that having 400 online friends was considered normal. Although i have never partaken with any of the online friends websites, i have friends who do. I know that i am not a social creature, but even i find it disturbing to think of just how many teenagers thought that talking to strangers online was a good way to spend your free time. What started this trend of allowing complete strangers talk to each other online? How long did it take for the idea to be considered popular?
How did Facebook start?