Blog Assignment 2

The law that I found myself agreeing with the most would have to be Sarnoff's Law. This law states that the value of a network increases linearly with the number of people added onto it. When trying to make sense of this law, I imagined it in terms of a television network that broadcasts college sports games. The games with lesser-known teams playing will have far less viewers than a major college program, so more advertisers will be willing to pay more for those big games. The same can be said about the Internet when looking at social media networks. Obviously businesses will be more excited about posting an advertisement on Facebook than MySpace. This law made the most sense to me and I was able to put it into terms I could understand and communicate. I think this law will continue to hold through even with the quick progression of technology these days, and I am excited to see how it is shaped in the future.

I think the way people will get their information five years from now will be similar to today. It's nice to dream about flying cars and robots, but I think there will be little difference. With that said, I do think the way we will communicate will be somewhat different. I believe text messages and social media will still dominate the market, but the way we use them will be different. With the recent surge of wearable technology like glasses and watches, it is becoming more and more clear this trend will not go away. Instead of texting someone on a iPhone, people will communicate through their wearables. Once this technology can be perfected, I believe it will be the end of cell phones and the start of communicating without hands. Beyond that, I do not see much more change since we will already have everything we need to communicate. After a certain point, people will become content with technology as it is and efforts will be focused more towards other technological areas other than communication. One idea that comes to mind is that the medical and environmental fields that could quickly take over our technological efforts and we could see more breakthroughs there. Especially with the Earth changing the way it is with global warming and the growing need to medically treat a expanding population, communication will take a back seat. Of course all of this is just opinion, but from the evidence I've seen, these are very possible outcomes for our future.

"Why We Blog" Discussion

The "Why We Blog" article brought up many good points about the interesting world of online blogging. Blogging has become a great resource to share ideas, discuss topics, and connect with people that have similar interests than you. This allows people to explore and learn about all kinds of things and brings people of similar interests together. Many people use blogging to share stories as well, in order to bring to light situations you cannot read about in a book. I think this article really brought to light the overall importance of sharing ideas and thoughts in blogs by proving that it can be used for so many different things for so many different people. Whether you are a cancer patient just looking to share and connect with others, or a sports enthusiasts wanting to tell your take on the big game, blogging can help almost everyone. I look forward to seeing blogging evolve over the years and the different places it will take us as technology continues to advance.

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