Week 14 - Till we meet again...

At the beginning when I know that I have to take a module called Introduction to the Internet, I was thinking to myself, "You mean I am not good enough at it?". I was already spending the bulk of my time online and I didn't think I would learn anything much more than I already knew about the Internet.

But I was very wrong. There are so many different aspects to the Internet, and every single day there are new content created online for all of us to explore. The COM125 lessons introduced various up and coming features and uses of the Internet and make me understand more about the new improvements made to it. Through the lessons, I got to see the creativity and intelligence in the people who created new Internet content that has benefit many people in the process. Take the digital classroom for example, without someone who had came up with this idea, people would not be able to gain knowledge through online classrooms which provided people the opportunities to travel through the virtual world to "see" things for themselves.


In conclusion, I am glad that this module has changed and broaden my perspectives and gave me a lot of knowledge that would be useful to me in future. Thank you for the wonderful learning experience, Mr Choy. Hope to see you around in school again! :)

Week 13 - The Future of the Internet

You know, talking about the future of the Internet often make me relate it to artificial intelligence. I always think that artificial intelligence would be so much more powerful if it is combined with the abilities of the Internet.
Having done my project on Web 3.0 and StumbleUpon, I realized that Web 3.0 might be the answer to the combination between artificial intelligence and the Internet. The Web 3.0 is able to understand and provide us with what we need and what we want and that made web surfing to be easier and convenient as ever.

Maybe next time, we can even literally employ artificial intelligence such as online robots to deal with our online activities for us, like helping us deal with online business (i.e. e-commerce) and our web transactions with others. Maybe all of that would be fully automated and we will just be waiting for money to be rolling in. Ok, that's a lazy thought and if that really comes true, all of us would be lazy bums and those robots would probably revolt and take over the world, if they are indeed that smart. Anyway, that has always been a possible outcome and a on-going controversy for the creation and usage of artificial intelligence in our life.

Think we will always have to weigh the pros and cons carefully and not to just dump all our work to the robots. This is the only way for the future of the Internet to look optimistic if we are really working towards goal of merging artificial intelligence with the Internet.

Week 12 - Apple

Week 11 - Citizen Journalism