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wk 1 activity 4 bizness

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Edited by Sonia King, Saturday, 31 Mar 2018, 15:51

I am belatedly having a (fairly weak) bash at wk1 activity 4. I chose to look at the Faulkes telescope. It is still going strong and now links to stuff that wasn't as prevalent when the Brown and Adler article was written, like a google earth plug in that adds pictures you have taken with the telescope to your google sky which is quite cool.

If I am honest I have kinda skimmed this activity, I nearly didn't do it. It was only as I was writing my learning journal private blog mashup thing post, and talking about Marion's forum post about second life that I realised the irony of looking at really old sites linked from an article about how things change so fast we really just need to learn to move with the times... (at least that is what I took away from it). Which led me to coming and doing a public post, so huzzah on the journal doing its ting.

Some of the stuff they (Brown and Adler) talk about is still very relevant, if a tad further on a decade down the line. Without checking all the sites listed I don't know how many are still going (has any one done that?) though I was really surprised to see that MySpace is still a thing, I mean who knew? I thought that had died around the time I left college... 

I suppose the big question, for me at least, is how long will we be able to look at web 2.0 in a current, relevant, context? We are teetering on the edge of Artificial General intelligence. Sophia has a finger in lots of pies, and with this happening recently how long before we realise we are in one of Brooker's black mirror episodes and the web in this 2.0 form is actually as archaic as dial up...


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