Response to Hito Steryl: Is the Internet Dead?-Ricardo Morales

Hito Steryl brings up an interesting argument that the internet is not what it used to be when it was first introduced. Back in the 90's the internet was meant to facilitate communication around the world and to have easier access to information. While that part is still true today, the part that's dead is the privacy part. In 2013, we learned that the U.S government could listen to what you are saying over the phone. This raised a lot of speculation as to what extent the government watches us. We have probably been watched by the government since the Internet was introduced in the 90's, however we were not aware of it. The moment we discovered we don't have as much privacy the Internet died.

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Response to The Ontology of the Photographic Image

I found this reading very interesting, I feel that Bazin did a really good job comparing and contrasting the difference in realism and interpretation between a painting and a photograph. Photographs aren't nearly as subjected to biases as paintings because a picture takes a "reality of nature" moment, freezes it, and captures it in a time capsule. Though photographs are by nature considerably less subject to biases compared to a painting they still are made with many of the same creative freedoms due to the fact that you (the photographer or videographer) can decide to capture "real" things in a different way by not shooting certain parts, using different angles, techniques, etc. Two pictures or videos could be of the same subjects and tell completely different stories.
Read more
Anyone-I'm interested in how a student can obtain a password. I'm sent in a loop then told that I can't get a password to access ecampus...any help is appreciated.-Gary Angle
Read more

Respond "Futurist Manifesto"

In his manifesto, the author is stating that he wants “this land”, which is Italy, to be free of its smelly gangrene of professors, archaeologists, ciceroni and antiquarians. By that he means that he wants everyone and everything that evokes the past to be destroyed or forgotten about. His ideology is to have the future generation to be looking towards the future and not back into the past. This is most likely one of the only point everyone would agree with on with the author, but not entirely. In fact, looking ahead of us is important but we can’t ignore the past; we must learn from it to teach us how to make the future even better.
Read more