1. Reed's Law is the most applicable law, in my opinion, to the world we currently live in, then the other laws we discussed in class. As technology grows more rapid with each coming day, the allowance for more space within networks is close to infinite (depending on the makeup of the software and the servers behind it) if those technologies involve three or more parties. Eventually, due to Reed’s law depending on exponential growth, there will be no more paired groups, rather, all groups will be connected by three or more parties and thus, have a superior probability of connectivity. Let’s take chat rooms, for example, chat rooms have come a long way since AOL instant messaging, and have now evolved into mass rooms with seemingly endless members, whereas the aforementioned rooms had a vacancy cap. It will be interesting to see what comes next in the realm of exponential user growth in response to our ever-changing technological advances.
2. In five years from now, we will receive information much more quick than we do now. We will no longer have the news broadcasted on television, yet, the information will be sent to us directly through live-feeds at any given moment in time. What I am referring to is different from the applications on smart phones we use today, because it will come to your attention without an app or click of a button, similar to what the Apple watch has done to present date. The use of textbooks in our schools will be extinguished, instead, everything a student will need will be able to be found on the internet or through online textbooks,webinars, FaceTime, etc. The use of computers in classrooms will be more common and I think there will be higher expectations from the professors since everything we need will be able to be accessed at the tip of our fingers. The way technology is rapidly increasing is causing our generation to become more dependent on it and the other new forms of communication, and the more traditional styles of communication are slowly but surely being forgotten, (eye contact, face-to-face conflict resolution, etc.).
I think that your opinion about reeds law is spot on. Reed's Law is obviously most applicable in todays age; with all the new networks the possibilities are endless. I also like your statement about how we will receive information in 5 years. Overall I agree with your opinions, nice job.
ReplyDeleteI agree that the access to information is only going to speed up. It might not be in the next five years, but I think eventually we will see more streaming services like you mentioned. Instead of paying for tons of channels on TV and only watching a few of them, we might pay for the ones we watch and have them directly streamed to any device we want. I don't know if textbooks will ever become completely obsolete in the classroom though. Many students, at least in our generation and older, prefer to have something they can physically touch and interact with while reading. However, I do agree they will become less and less used as more things become accessible to students through their computer. Before computers dominate the classroom, I believe teachers will have to find a way to separate socializing and entertainment from learning while using a computer in the class.
ReplyDeleteI absolutely agree with your theory on the death of broadcast television. Services are far too expensive when considering that the same programs and information can be consumed on the Internet much faster and cheaper. However, I must side with Brian in the idea that textbooks will never become completely obsolete. While online texts seem to be a more economical and viable option for the new age of technology, the simplicity of textbooks, in my mind, will never be replaced. What I mean by this is that they do not require plug-in power, Internet connection, or technological storage space, but rather can be accessed by the simple acts of opening and consuming.
ReplyDeleteI like your comment about chat rooms. I feel that the idea of exponential growth fits well with that example. Once one person uses it, it is easy for them to get others using it as well. There will be never-ending growth as long as there is room to expand. Nice work.
ReplyDeleteI agree with you completely that computers are going to take over textbooks, due to the the massive influx of new information everyday. Print textbooks just can't keep up with all that new info, without having to be replaced every year, and that would be very expensive. I honestly believe that everything we need almost will be able to be done through a computer or internet services with IPTV and other devices.
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