Who is controlling? Human or technology?

  In the beginning of the lesson, Rodney raised an interesting question, whether we are controlling the technology, or the technology is controlling us. In my opinion, there's no doubt that we are still the controller. The reason for that is we still keep inventing technology today, not the vice versa. Technology is the tool for making our life easier and better. It's true that everything around us are about technology, but if we are controlled by them because of this, then we should be controlled by oxygen for a long long time.Someone may think that the world may be dominated by robot in future, but I think that only happen in movie as machine won't have their mindset in reality.

  Another reason for proving we are controlling the technology is that we can make change to the technology, which is call hacking. We can develop technology to hack into another one for our convenience, but technology can not do that for their interest. There are a lot of hackers in many kinds of technology, especially in the game industry, like PSP,NDS,Wii, after hacking them we can play most of the game for free. For me, I also hack "Apple" by jail-breaking my iPhone, so that I can get applications for free too.

The most popular book--Facebook

It is hard to find a person who doesn't got  Facebook in the society nowadays. Even Facebook is developed for several years only, it's now accounting a great proportion of people's life. People visit the  "home" on the right up corner of Facebook is more even than the "home" they actually live in(And I am one of them for sure).And I think Facebook has evolved from just a social network for friendship, to now a promotional platform for business activities or political issue.


At the end of the lesson in week 7, Rodney has brought out a interesting fact and a reflecting question to us. He said when we started using Facebook, all our personal information is agreed to give to Facebook for their use in any purpose. And then he asked us whether it is our big concern about our privacy or not. In my opinion, I think it's alright for Facebook to have this authority as there is no free lunch in the world. If it can't make money, then it will be closed and we cannot use Facebook such a convenient thing. Furthermore, we have the choice to input what information we want, but not forced by Facebook, therefore I think we can still protect our privacy if we are careful enough.