Module 13

Another semester and another few credits checked off the list on our way to graduation.  I have to say that since transferring to Weber State University, this Wired Society course has been my favorite thus far.  We are all constantly bombarded with the latest and greatest technologies, each one more exciting and more innovative than the last, and it has been hugely entertaining for me to have taken a look back at how it all started and how far we have advanced in this digital era.

I thoroughly enjoyed the first chapters of our text, The World Is Flat, by Thomas L. Friedman.  Like I have said in the early blog posts, it was a nostalgic experience for me to read and then reflect on the beginning of the internet, Netscape, and the first days of emailing.  Yes it makes me feel SO OLD, but hey that's life isn't it?  Looking back and reminiscing on the good ol' days is an activity that I have always enjoyed, and I feel as if I got to do it quite a lot throughout this semester, and with such captivating material too.  When you really look at how rapidly technology has been developing I cannot help but feel intrigued, don't you!?  It tends to inevitably draw your attention to the future, and oh the possibilities!  Maybe some day soon we all will have a know-it-all Logic, and mine will be honorably named Joe!

The weeks we studied outsourcing, offshoring, globalization and workflow software I must admit were not exactly my cup of tea, although I am pleased to now be more knowledgable and informed in those important affairs of the modern world.  Bring it on India!  Ain't nothing wrong with a little healthy competition to motivate you right?

My very favorite aspect of this class by all means has to be the blog.  I am always intimidated by online tasks that are foreign to me, and who knows why I had creating a blog imagined as such a convoluted burden, but it was so simple even I could do it!  I love to write and hardly ever pick up a journal these days, so the blog is something I am very excited to continue on with.  In addition to my newfound blogging hobby (okay so far said hobby is in the very early stages but in my mind I am already a dazzling and enthralling blogger who is highly successful and of course very relatable to her audience), I have also decided to continue learning more about technology.  This class has inspired me to take some sort of computer class so I can increase my digital skills and remain with the times!  Wait maybe I need to GET with the times first before I can REMAIN with the times right?