Lesson 2-Social Media, IP, Copyright, Blogs Forum

I was to post on the Blogs and websites Forum, since my register number came in the last 9 of the class. Blogs, in my opinion, may be biased a little, since they are written in the 1st POV, thus, creating potential biasness. They are however public, which means that the consequence portion of freedom of speech has to be exercised, or else, you might end up offending someone, a religious group, an important person, your teacher, peers, etc. You may even be sent to jail!

The 2nd topic I looked at was Intellectual property and Copyright. Beneath the surface and facade of an extremely funny and hilarious video lies the fact that you cannot copy entire pages for official purposes. In fact, you can only copy stuff for your own personal viewing, but if it is presented to an authority(or even your peers), you are simply infringing copyright. You can only copy up to 10% or 1 chapter of a reference book for your own usage. In order to copy even, the author must have given permission. Even in Wikipedia, sources are given for information found in entries, so there would be no point copying from it and not giving the source as either the original source, or Wikipedia. It is simply wrong. This is because the author is entitled to royalties from selling books, thus, if photocopying of reference materials is abused, the money only goes to the photocopying company, and the author gets absolutely nothing. This will put off creativity, because of the lack of benefit, or to put it more specifically, MONETARY benefit. Soon, this chain reaction would completely collapse the writing industry. Thus, copyright laws had to be imposed.

The last video I watched was on Social Media, namely, its impact on man. It is basically futuristic, seeing that with the flick of a finger, or the push of a button, you can get your organiser to remind you of what to do. I feel that this would however, be negative, since you basically rely on mechanical objects to remind you of everything, to completely cut your work by at least half... it just does not sound right. We are after all, not machines, so there is no point in advanced human-computer interaction. It is only meant for the Homo Sapiens who would in the future, evolve into beings that rely on brains and psychics instead of muscles and communication.