Most Influential Presentations

Top 3 presentations that have opened my eyes

I think the presentation that have opened my eyes the most would have to be the ‘copyright’ ‘Internet of things ‘ and also ‘the Treaty of Waitangi’

The copyright presentation really made me think about who these copyright laws are really protecting, because it’s in most cases not the owner of the work but usually the big corporate organisations. The American laws that the U.S.A are trying to get passed made me worry about the destruction it would bring to people’s privacy, even countries privacy if these laws were permitted. It also made me think about how stupid it is that the law enables the owner of the internet account to be prosecuted for any copyright breaches even if they themselves didn’t commit the copyright breach. I thought how could they monitor who exactly committed the copyright breach? it would be near impossible to do without some sort of personal log-in for each individual person using the internet, maybe that’s what it will come down to if these laws get any worse. I think as I.T. professionals we need to be especially aware of copyrights of products and software that we install or use when fixing businesses computers and when we are creating websites etc…, if not we could get prosecuted with copyright breaches ourselves, which would not look good for an I.T. professional or an I.T. company.

 

The ‘Internet of things’ presentation was interesting. Just imagining how the world will be in the future is exciting and it’s crazy how vital to everyday life the internet will become. Everything being connected to the internet is such a huge concept to us today but people of the future will think nothing of it, it will just become normal for people to press a button on their computer and start their car that’s sitting in the driveway or to look at their fridge and be told how much milk is left, see how much a new bottle of milk will cost at the supermarket then place an order for more milk , all from the front of the fridge . As I.T. professionals we will be the ones keeping all these gadgets going and connected so we will become even more necessary to the everyday running of the modern world. The demand for I.T. work will continue to increase year by year so the job opportunities for I.T. professionals in the future look pretty solid which makes me excited about joining the profession. It is an integral part of being an I.T. professional to keep up with the technological advancements because technology is advancing faster and faster everyday making it easy for us to fall behind if we don’t stay on top of the ball.

 

I think the Treaty presentation had an influence on me because before we had the presentation I never really knew much about the history of our country and the Treaty of Waitangi, it’s quite sad that this is the case for a lot of New Zealanders and I think we probably should have learnt more about it in primary and secondary school because I  believe it’s an important part of being a kiwi, knowing our past. After reading the documents I was surprised by the amount of difference in the actual writing of the two Treaty of Waitangi documents and also the use of quite a bit of western terminology that lead to some misunderstanding between the two cultures. After completing this article I feel better about my understanding of our past and I feel I have a greater understanding of why Maori claim on breaches of the treaty today.

 

The main thing that’s excited me in the last year from the I.T. world is the release of the Playstation 4 gaming console. Finally after 9 years a new console with some decent processing power. The Playstation 3 was a good little console when it was released but in the world of gaming today it’s not enough to run the crazy amount of power needed for new games. The Playstation 4 however has 8 GB of GDDR5 RAM and 1.84 TFLOPS of processing power, making it the most powerful gaming console on the market today. O.k. it’s not as powerful as the new computers that are out today but not bad for $599.  We can look forward to plenty of games with decent graphics arriving in the near future. It will also be interesting to see where the augmented reality part of the PS4 system will go in the future, hopefully we get some awesome innovative and interactive AR games coming out. I’ll definitely be keeping up with the latest to come out on PS4 in the future through the PS4 system itself and using google to search the latest developments.

 

I.T. is supposed to be here to make our lives easier!!!!

This sentence is funny because although Information Technology does make our lives easier overall it also makes parts of our lives more complex and in some ways harder, especially for us I.T. Professionals who will have to deal with fixing all these gadgets and programs. As more gadgets and programs get created to make our lives easier, the more complex those gadgets and programs will become, making it more and more complex and difficult for I.T. professionals to diagnose and fix these gadgets and programs. In conclusion I guess in a way it looks as if I.T. is making other people’s lives easier but the I.T. professionals lives harder.