Week 3- Lecture

When the lecturer warned us this weeks lecture would be somewhat boring and nerdy, I don't think I appreciated how boring and nerdy it would actually be. I think it was my own lack of interest in the subject, however. The way in which computers and the internet was born and has, for lack of a better phrase, taken over the world. How is it that I found learning about something in which a huge chunk of my life is basically devoted to so uninteresting?

Why is it that millions of people devote their lives to the internet, spend hours upon hours a week exploring the many wonders of it, but have no idea as to how it got to be what it is today, somewhat necessary?

While I unfortunately found this weeks lecture immensely boring and I don't mean to offend, it did, however, allow me to ponder the way in which the internet and computers in general have grown into a super power of the 21st century. As a member of generation Y, I find it somewhat difficult to comprehend how members of previous generations coped with such primitive technology. While at the time of its arrival it was indeed as mesmerising as the iPhone4 may be now, the way in which the world went around before the technology we have today is an interesting thought.

This concept then triggered the thought that while I find the world we live in to be technologically advanced, it's likely a 17 year old in 1975 did so as well. In another 35 years, will another seventeen year old be sitting on their laptop, or possibly the newly introduced computer in their mind, for lack of imagination, asking themselves how seventeen year olds survived in 2010 without their iPhone45.

In conclusion, week three's lecture, while somewhat boring in my opinion, did exactly what I want from this course and that is to encourage me to think about the world I live in and the way in which its growing.