Online entertainment 10 years from now

The technology changes that will occur ten years from now will probably be beyond what many people can even imagine; however, its fun to speculate some of the possibilities of technology that may be developed in the near future.

Online entertainment has evolved a tremendous amount in the last ten years. Social networking sites, video hosting sites, gaming sites, and news sites are just some of the many categories of online entertainment that has evolved into ways that allow us to almost instantly view entertainment in a convenient fashion.

Looking ten years in the future,  advanced robotic computers will be able to determine exactly what types of entertainment each individual person will and will not like based on their personality.   Advanced hand held holographic computers and human like robots will be available for the public to purchase and own.  People will be able to verbally ask these computers to show holographic forms of particular information about entertainment, news, games, etc.,  and then have it retrieved from global internet databases as long as that person has the access privileges to view the information. Advanced computers will be able to recommend and provide the best, most valuable information available to people’s specific needs.  Certain entertainment based information may even be developed by computers themselves to better satisfy the people’s taste for entertainment.

The next decade of technology development certainly holds brilliant concepts in science that will continue to help better shape and advance humanity as a whole.

My groups presentation theme

The theme of my groups presentation was cloud computing.  Here are the topics that each group member presented on:

·         The Overview of Cloud Computing (Christopher)

·         Google Apps – Saas and PaaS (Sky)

·         Hosted Cloud Services – IaaS (Jordin)

·         Chromebook (Khanh-Hoa)

·         Disadvantages of Cloud Computing (Kya)

·         Conclusion

Cloud computing is way to access shared resources of software, documents, and information as a service rather than requiring the end-user to configure and install physical hardware and devices on their computers.  The ideas of cloud based services allow end-users to access resources through an internet connection, and the end-user is required to know the physical location of resources.  This concept can be very beneficial to customers and businesses that do not want to deal with technical implementation and maintenance of system software and devices in their company environment.  The headache of managing and troubleshooting hardware and software can be taken away from users and left to the IT professionals.

One major drawback of cloud computing is the level of security that your data in the cloud provides. Because data is accessed strictly through an internet connection to the cloud, the data will be much easier for unauthorized users to access what was stored.   Cloud computing is becoming more and more widespread throughout the world; however, there are hurdles that must be jumped over in the near future for it to be widely accepted as the best option for customers.

My presentation topic

GPS Insight was the topic that I chose to present on in my class “TINST 207: “Living and Working in a Virtual World.”  GPS Insight is a tracking system that can be used by companies who want to keep track of their vehicles to see their activities in real time.  This particular type of technology uses hardware and software devices that work together with space satellites to provide the most accurate information.  The hardware devices are installed inside vehicles that include a display screen for the driver. The software is integrated on the GPS Insight web site servers and company computers for mangers to access.

Advantages to using this GPS technology include reduced fuel costs, improved productivity, reduced labor costs, a safer fleet,  improved customer service and more. However, company managers and company owners have the ability to monitor and record employees with accurate precision on driving duty. This has raised some controversial questions on whether this technology is violating privacy rights of company employees who are having their daily driving activities tracked and recorded for review by company owners. In my opinion, I think companies have every right to track someone as long as long as employees working during their paid work hours and using company vehicles.