This weeks blog isn’t about anything specific I have read or anything I heard about. There was something that grabbed my attention this week and it was something that Mr. Tony Ravani mentioned during our DSS on Friday. Like I have mentioned several times throughout this semester, I am not the most tech savvy and potentially the most out dated grad student around. I guess sometimes drastic change isn’t welcome to me, but I do like challenges. Anyway, Mr. Ravani showed a cluster of wires around a small town in most likely a 3rd world country. When he asked us what this meant to us we mentioned several different things, but not what he mentioned. He said opportunity. Until then, I did not see the significance in me learning everything about the IT world. I figured I would get the most out of whatever is taught to me and would get by with that. Now I realize how much opportunity and change is yet to come after Mr. Ravani’s comment and Dr. Schwarz’s remark about how this is just the beginning. I can see the resistance I will face if I don’t overcome my fear of learning new and whats seems like foreign technological advances ahead of me. After Friday, I realized that technology is now my future.
One of the things that Mr. Ravani said that stood out to me also was that our generation is a generation of multi-taskers. When he said that it hit me how many things we are able to do at once. For instance, at this moment I'm watching tv, writing this blog, having a conversation through BBM, and planning my day. I think this culure of multi-tasking can be attributed to the strides made through technology to make everything not only more compact, but also more user friendly.
ReplyDeleteOne of the things I feel i'm gaining most from this program is how they pretty much force us to get with the times.Whenn I first started i was surprised at how popular the CIA specialization was, now just after midterms I'm considering specializing in it.
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