Assignment 6: Create your own Adventure - Alex Wyllie

1. How do you want to change the world? What do you want to see, what do you want to create or do, what challenges do you want us to overcome?

2. Where do you feel most connected? Is it a community on the internet, in real life? How do you connect with these people?

3. What is the internet to you? Is it an entertainment platform, a news provider, a media for discussion, your social life? How would you feel without the internet? Without computers?

Topic 3:

When Tim Berners Lee invented what we now recognize as the internet, he had no clue how far we would take his creation. We have taken it around the planet, and now, one in every five people on Earth have internet access. It has replaced various elements of our physical lives, as everything becomes digitized and computerized. We now have no lack of things to do, as there is merely an entire world waiting at our fingertips. We command it, and it commands us. It something we cannot comprehend, something beyond us, as it is our connections. To me, the internet is a different world, one in which we run to and hide in every time something here goes wrong, somewhere where we store information, leaving it to be found again later. It is a second life and thus has it’s own entertainment, social bearings, news providers, and public forums. Because it is so much easier to live in than the first, it becomes increasingly common, stealing time, the only common resource, from both lives. Without the internet, without computers, we would still have busy lives, doing many things, but our focus, our projects, our work, our knowledge would be elsewhere. Suffice to say, we may not even be us.

Tuesday, September 30, 6:34 pm