For this assignment we were asked to watch the TED talks "Are droids taking our jobs" and "Life in the Digital now" and then try to type down our thoughts and feelings about one of the presentations.
So after watching both I decided on trying to get some of my thoughts about the first one written down in this blog.
First of all, I have to say that I think this will probably be a political problem in the future, if it isn't already. The thing with political problems is that they are subject to opinion, and everyone got their own. Right away I suspect a sort of a conservative view that will argue that droids, robots or machines "stealing" our jobs will have a huge negative impact on the world at large and to counteract this group there will be a progressive camp that will argue that the machines will take humanity into a new era, a utopian like place where we will have time to do other things that Andrew argued for.
With all that being said, I for one still have no real opinion about this matter as I find to hard to predict what will happen - and I don't think that anyone can get close what reality will actually make of the future, sort of how the people of the 19th centuary predicted how life would be for us,

Even with that being said, I'd still like to finish using the same quote as Andrew McAfee did

"I, for one, welcome our new computer overlords."

Thoughts and reflections on the first assignement

This post will tackle the first blog assignment for my English class at Karlstad university.

We were asked to read and reflect on the article 'From relationships and revolutions: seven ways Facebook has changed the world' which can be summarized as an attempt to describe how the broad masses, companies and large groups are using the instrument in the world today as well as what impact Facebook has had on the world.
However the article doesn't delve into the meaning of what Facebook has changed for the individual, which is what I would argue have had the greatest impact on our lives. Sure enough the way companies market they products or how political entities push their agenda through facebook is a massive change in how we consume media, to draw a parallel from the past, facebook, (and internet), is to TV what the TV was to the radio some decades ago. But the way we interact with people is probably what has changed more than anything, and it will possibly change even more as long as internet, Facebook and similiar things keep on gaining popularity and accessibility.
Of course Facebook is just a small contributing factor in the grand scheme of things but in the age where Internet is still truly on a rise Facebook will prosper.

/PB