Convergence = Ubiquity
In yesterdays lecture we focused on how media is becoming more and more focused on the individual. The semantic web, which publishes pages that can be associated with the data they put up, is beginning to take a strong control. As we all know, our computers now, can remind us when friends birthdays and events that are coming up which are important to us, however, now they are designing computers which learn about previous data we have looked at and for example suggest to us birthday presents to buy for friends and family, based on what we have previously searched for on the internet.
The main question that arose in the lecture was ‘what will the future really be like?’. Will technology allow us to make our own decisions and live our life normally or will every aspect of our life be decided by a machine and technology? The following video is an interesting watch and an insight of what the future may be like for us…
