According to Dr. Bryan Alexander, there are four possible outcomes that will happen by the year 2022. 1. Phantom Learning 2. The Lost Decade 3. Alt. Residential 4. Renaissance For this blog post, i decided to focus on “The Lost Decade” – my take on what will happen in the year 2022 according to Bryan ...

Discuss your thoughts and feelings about being a university student in the digital age. What do you hope to gain from your university experience. Do Campbell’s ideas about a personal cyberinfrastructure resonate with you? Explain why or why not. In this day and age, it is more important than ever to integrate one’s life with ...

Assignment: Choose the sentence from the first five paragraphs of Gardner Campbell’s Personal Cyberinfrastructure essay that most appeals to you. Briefly describe how and why that sentence appeals to you (one or two paragraphs should suffice – unless you need more). Sentence: “At the turn of the century, higher education looked in the mirror and, ...

This is in response to Rodnie’s presentation “Hire a Hacker Now!!” Link to his presentation / write-up: here  Rodnie’s presentation covered the topic of “Hackers” on the internet. There are several sites that offer Hacking services in exchange for money. These include (but are not limited to): acquiring email passwords, shutting down websites, etc. Services ...

“Now that SOPA’s dead, five easy ways to reform copyright laws” Link to article: here  This is an article from another “topic” that i dissect. It deals with copyright laws, and how the United States can improve it’s laws in order to make the basis of copyright more fair for the end users. In the ...

Article link: here  PART 1: SMARTPHONES Did you know that applications on your smartphone keeps track of your personal information? Contacts, phone numbers, mobile web browsing history, etc. An example would be a social application for the iPhone called “Path”. This application looks into your smartphones contacts, and uploads all of the information to their ...

(picture via wikipedia) Web 2.0 is a concept / term coined by Tim O’Reilly. It essentially overviews the first major shift within internet stratosphere. The first aspect of Web 2.0 consists of RIA (rich internet applications). Essentially, this is how we bring the “desktop experience” to one’s browser (whether it be graphical or usability). The ...

GROUP 2 INFOGRAPHIC~ CYBER CRIME: 2011