Wednesday, 30 January 2013

Digital Rights/Open Access

What is Open Access and how it beenfits us? Open Access is the immediate online, free availability of researh outputs without the severe restrictions on use commonly imposed by publisher. Open Access is so much in the interest of research funders and employers that an increasing the number of them around the world are introducing open access policies that require their funded researchers to provide open access to their work. It increases the impact of the research inwhich they invest public money on the economic impact. Open Access benefits researchers, institutions, nations and society as a WHOLE. Copyright is intellectual property (Its a huma creation). Intellectual Property when an idea takes some tangible form. IP can mean a brand, invention, design, or other kind of creation. Copyright is a system to advance public interests- they are there to encourage people too share.Its a night that exists only by government decree. Copyright is a now a eries impediment to technological and social progress. To make money you have too serve the customers, not sue or control them. What other alternatives to use other than Copyright? -Recorder/DVD DVDs were deliberatly crippled at birth-they were banned because they were a bad form of technology (No red button for example). COPYRIGHT IS BREACHED AS PIRACY!. Claims of privacy are rhetorical nonsense.

Digital Voices & Media Comunication

Cyberspace can be known as the new bomb, when old technology was new (Electric light, the telegraoh, the radio, the phonograph). Some saw the new communications media as a threat. No invention of modern tunes has extene its influence so rapidly. Media technology can travel through time and space, even writing is said to be technology- technology transmission. ORAL AND LITERATE Technology will change our culture loads because there are various different technologies which have been created and all are increasing and used worldwide every so often. The Commercialization of the internet - Co operate websites - Pop up adverts - Spam - Media content paywalls - E- commerce & E- talking - Web 2.0 buy outs

The Impact of cyberstalking

The course of conduct by which one person repeatedly inflicts on another unwanted intrusion to such an extent that the reapent fears of her safety. Cyberstalking is any type of electronic equipment that anyone can use to stalk, such as the; internet, mobile phone, etc. Cyberstalking is most common with teenagers as they are seen the most vulnerable- teenage girls with photos and they contruct websites to target the victim. If people dont want to be cyberstalked then avoid communications with strangers online or dont use social sites such as facebook! The age group most represented in the current 'cyberstalked group' are old people particular men. There are many diffrent ways of getting stalked. THE GREATEST MYTH OF ALL Cyberstalking doesnt really do any damage? PTSD is a specific condition in which trauma survivors are unable to get the trauma out of their minds. TYPES OF TRAUMAS: -Sexual Assault -RTA Survivors -Bomb survivors -Air Crash Survivors 22-40% -Stalking victims -Aid Workers MORE COMMON MYTHS: -We Cant catch cybestalkers -If you control a cyberstalker they will stop -If people ignore the staljers they will get bored and stop

Tuesday, 29 January 2013

Myths Of The Internet

It is said that technology such as the internet is making us more social everywhere and globally. The technology of the internet brings about prosperity and well being based solely on konowledge based. The technology of the internet makes it able to be free from governments and other non cyber space institutions. This is because the internet has increased rapidly over time used by many users. The development of the internet is unique and exceptional in human history and is not subject to social forces that charachterized the adoption of other important technologies. The History of Xerox Parc -PARC is well financed -They were shocked by IBM -5,000 copies were sold but IBM turned them down that is the reason why they were shocked by them. -Then that was the end of Xerox The whole point of xerox was to make copies of copies. Arther the little-marketing firm, did not see the effect of making copies, resulting in there company to fill in. Afterwards Xerox prospered.

Tuesday, 13 November 2012

Human Thinking

It is said to be that machines think just like humans but with a technological mind. An example of this would be called 'Artifical Intelligence'. Artifical Intelligence The development of an artificially conscious entity may happen within our lifetimes. Our bodies is important for our intelligence. Robots are also important for AI. What Is A Robot? An embodied creature or robot is one that has a physical body and experiences the world, at least in part, directly through the influence of the world on that body. A more specialized type of embodiment occurs when the full extent of the creature is contained within that body”. Artificial Life In other words Artificial Life (Al) is when an associated art form which examine systems that are related to life, its processes and its evolution through stimulations using computer models, robotics and bio chemistry. Theres an example of a computer programme that relates to life in a human form. Chatterbot

Thursday, 8 November 2012

User Interface + Mind Uploading

User interface is ameans by which people interact with a particular machine. Its a layour of applications with graphic or textual controls. It is all about thinking about the relationships between the technology and the body or relationships between life and technology. The way technology has been created, it has been rapidly increasing over the years which has the ability to control u human beings.- The human being isnt the mind, its embodied. MIND UPLOADING Mind uploading or whole brain emulation. (its called mind transfer). Is the hypothecal process of scanninga biological brain in detail and copying its state into a computer system or another computational device. There are different types of 'Mind Uploading' and how the different ways the technology takes over our minds: MICROTOME PROCEDURE When a human brain is disected into slices. For example; each slice is scanned and the computer uses this data to reconstruct the pateints brain circuitry- then the stimuluation is activated. NANOREPLACEMENT PROCEDURE Billions of microscopic machines are injected into the brain. It takes up residence in or near the neurons and they learn from them. Neurons are replaced with nanomachine actuators. Wheres the life between life and non life? If an uploaded person is alive then what about a robot (Not created by a person but still very intelligent). What about a super computer? Futurist Ray Kurzweil projected super computer processing power based on, 'Moores Law'.

Computer Activism

Earliest Computers - Code Breaking-Colossus - US Census-UNIVAC - Knowledge Machine The personal computer revolution 1975 was developed by hobbyists. It has bright colours and lively images-its something to play with and enjoy. 1990s Cyberspace (matrix-greenscreen) Cyberspace is often described with familar spatial images like cities. It is made of information and the internet isnt the world wide web. MYTHS OF INTERNET Cyberspace is a place apart and so not subject to rules that apply to the real world. The technology of the internet makes it free from control by governments and other non cyberspace institutions. -The technology of the internet is making us more social -The widespread adoption of the internet is bringing about prosperity and well being, based solely on a weightless 'knowledge based' computer. -We are on a verge of a new political era of computers- mediated democracy. Richard Wise critised the claim that the widespread adoption of the technology. The humans embrace technology.It has free control over our bodies and we spread ourselves across the planet. Freedom isnt necessarily a good thing- its all about the human mind and how we adapt.