Week Three covered a broad range of topics, the two which gained my interest most were the history of computers; from their military focused conception and code breaking beginnings, of which I previously did not know, to the rise (and war)of Apple and Windows, and Alphaville; a movie on the space age future where computers are the source of all information currently unknown and emotions have been outlawed as the computer is master of whom does not posses emotions. Alphaville held a laborious story line but left a lingering concept of the future of computing and Cyberspace. I feel the two topics complimented each other in a way that looked at the past, present and future.
The reading by Sue Halphen, 'Mind Control and the Internet', complimented well the theme evident. Personalizing any element of a machines functions seems to run along the lines of both extraordinary and humanizing. The piece made me realize how personalized my experience of cyberspace really is and why this occurs.
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