NFC technology the future!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HhI9Rj97X0I


I remember that during the first week of classes we touched a little bit of this kind of technologies, so while i was looking to lastly innovations I found this to be a really useful tool, and what I think is the best thing of this NFC technology application is that everybody can have it easily and quick. The fact that people uses more and more smart phones makes this application very convenient because in order to use it, people do not have to buy a new highly price device or something like that, just by downloading the app with the correct smart phone and that is enough.

internet!!

during class we were discussing about who owns the internet and that kind of themes. I found this interesting interview, not about the person who owns it but about the father of the internet and his projection and his statements about what it is going to happen in the future with this incredible tool. down here the link to the interview.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hf0rjtnwC9A

word lens!!! really cool

I found this video really interesting in case you like to travel.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h2OfQdYrHRs

biometric security

i found very interesting what i learned about the biometric security and how a machine can scan and take information from our biological system in order to protect or to secure something else. I know the US government uses this kind of security in many things. a simple example is the way the use is with the immigrants and with the people who enters the country, i know this because when i when to issue my visa, the first thing the people in the embassy did, was to take my finger, hand prints, a picture of my face a a scan of my eyes. I found interesting also some way to avoid this biometric security systems like the one used by government in other areas. your driver's license contains biometric information about you. Your height, weight, hair color and eye color are all physical characteristics that can easily be checked. However, your height changes with age (16 year old drivers get taller, senior citizens get shorter). Your hair color changes naturally (and on purpose). You can wear colored contact lenses that change your eye color; everyone's weight fluctuates over time.


here are some nice links about this topic: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CL3Mjn7uAnA


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s8ghfI1LL9Y&feature=related     this one is good!!!!

http://www.youtube.com/user/video4aoptix?feature=pyv&ad=5356037084&kw=biometric%20security#p/u/0/kEURCYlg2aQ

databases

Data Bases every where




A database is a data structure that stores organized information, usually associated with software to update and query the data. A simpledatabase might be a single file containing many records, each ofwhich contains the same set of fields where each field is a certainfixed width. the data bases are something that have been improving and that have been changing in the same order computer technologies softwares applications and programs have changed. But these useful tools have been growing so much that the have become not only helpful, but indispensable. we can find data bases everywhere, and I believe there is not a day in which a person do not use a data base, at least here in the united states. we can find them in cellphones, banks, universities, social network, government, sports and even in grocery stores. they have become indispensable because in order to use a software and interact with the information we need this kind of organization.








http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WDm89LPGYRs


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4yKlVHoUSxE&feature=related

big brother

This is just not right!!!

i was really amazed when i finished watching the big brother clip.

my whole perspective of internet and computer performance change. the fact that government and companies like google can track and check every single word that a person types into a computer is just incredible. It is understandable that the government is concern with information and details that can lead and stop terrorists, and that since the 911 tragedy this is a mayor concern for the country leaders, but what is not understandable is that the whole meaning of privacy is corrupted now, and that now a days privacy is just not even a real and complete value.

Every phone call, text message, email, search on the internet, every single post or tweet is information that not only is checked by the people is supposed to be checked, but also by other people like government, or like the secret room of at&t that receives every single move users do. this is just not right to me, i think is just not the correct way to deal with people information.

Evolution of work

It is a crude and really amazing statistic projection the one at the opening of the program, which ensures that fro the end of the century, there will be more than 19 cities in the world with more than 20 million people living in them. And I think it is a truth fact that cooperation and comprehension will be crucial for the humans in order to preserve peace and evolution.

My reflection about this clip is based on a key word, work.

I do believe that the work is a changing subject nowadays, and it is very important that people follow the evolutions and changes of how work is innovating. The way business work in this new era and with the new technologies, work opportunities are different than they were after, now people need to prepare themselves, increase cultural knowledge and even more important, specialize in certain subjects, according to their fields. I think a nice term to call this complication and innovation of the jobs is; globalization of work.

Competition is the key term in this new job era, the person who is more prepare and that keep improving and learning is the person so gets the best, more efficient, and better payed work. Another interesting fact is that the person who gets the best job is the person who tend to have a happier and more emotionally stable life. This implies that in this era, preparation means more than before, people with more knowledge and better preparation is and will tend to life happier lives, which at the end of most people philosophy of life is the most important. in this days and in the following years, the job is not only a way to get money and receive a nice check, work has a bigger meaning, it means stability and happiness.

When it comes to preparation and innovation on labor field, I think that the most important thing for workers is to get involve with technology. In this times, knowing how to use a software and understanding media and computer-innovations, and other kind of advances, is clearly a way to gain more job opportunities. technology is just an incredibly powerful source, it is amazing how world is changing and how easier and faster people want things, the kind of thing that innovations and new invents provide.

Something that attracted me since the exact moment I heard it from the clip was the statement that Dr.Leon Botstein did, in which he says that people love work not only because it provides money, but because it gives people a sense of personal value, it gives people a feeling that what they do is important, and they are important. this provides with emotional stability to workers.

While listening to Dr.Leon, I understood something that made me think a lot in how people is changing the way they interact with their jobs and how the people get prepare to it. Internet is an incredible tool which everybody is able to use, the constant applications that people gives to the internet is just something that makes the difference everyday. Cultural beliefs are changing is the cities, because time is a really valuable resource, and people who live in cities have less and less of it. The effects of this lack of time is reflected in the way people interact and perform their activities. people want thing done almost instantly. internet helps people to do thing faster and in this days, the work which is done faster is the best option.

Social networks were a crucial point of debate in the clip, it just really incredible how important social networks have increased their level of importance and utility. during the clip they talked about how they did a program for the city of chicago, a program to improve driving habits in the streets, but what is interesting of this program is that they used what they call "crowds", whey ask people from all over the world in massive way using the social networks in order to get ideas, and after a depuration process they use the best and most brilliant ideas to perform their programs. this is just one of millions of examples of how technology plays a fundamental role for human practices and work in this new millennium. 

To end my reflection I just want to express one important and I think fundamental evolution that is changing the way we interact with work, ecology.

during the last few years, ecology has become the important activity. Meaning that during thousands of years humans contaminated and perform mistaken practices that now days as consequence is killing the planet. The way humans now are trying to go back and perform an involution of contamination is changing everything. we live in a world where thinning green is a serious matter which is changing the way we work, live and interact with the nature. Thinking green is important, because jobs and our human nature ask for it.

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