I think that the future of the world wide web is going to be very interesting. In the article, "Google's New Director of Engineering, Ray Kurzweil, is Building your Cybernetic Friend," it mentions that, "Eventually Google will understand why users are searching for information and provide them with answers they didn’t even know they needed." In a way this would be really cool, but I feel as the World Wide Web advances, more and more of our personal information is getting out there as well. As also mentioned in this article, "Ray Kurzweil, wants to build a search engine so sophisticated that it could act like a ‘cybernetic friend,’ who knows users better than they know themselves." I would find it creepy if I did not even have to ask the question to have this cybernetic friend know what I want to ask.
'The Cloud' is used for storing and accessing data and programs over the internet instead of your computer's hard drive. I knew of the cloud, but really did not know what exactly the purpose of it was, but after reading the Cloud Computing article, I have a better understanding. The article states that, "The change will affect all levels of the computational ecosystem, from casual user to software developer, IT manager, even hardware manufacturer." I kind of thought it would really only affect businesses and things like that, but after reading the article I realized it is not.
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8 years ago
I agree with the Cybernetic friend being creepy if it knew what I wanted to search without me asking for it. But it would make my life a little bit more easier.
ReplyDeleteIt would be easier to search for people/ things but I do think it will be a little over the top to not being able to have the kind of control that we have had up until AI.
ReplyDeleteI believe the more we seek the more the World Wide Web will advance. The internet goes as we go it's our personal information outlet. It seems as if the internet can't get any better now which makes me wonder what improvements are coming?
ReplyDeleteI could really relate to you because I did not know what the cloud was either until it was mentioned in this class. But I think using this computing system will easily enable one to store information easily.
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