Overall

Overall this quarter in TINST 207, my experience went well! I didn't know what to expect from this class and what I gained, I am happy with. Having Professor Fry as my teacher was great! Everyday his interest, passion, and attitude towards the topic for the class kept me interested and always paying attention. I consider myself a decently tech-savvy individual and after I took this class, I learned about different aspects of the technology world that I never would have known before. I'm very glad I took this class for this quarter! It was a great way to start the day.

Group project

My group's topic was on privacy and security. In my group we focused on an array of aspects within this topic. For example, sex offenders and their access to you online, antivirus and spam updates/installing, https, entering your financial info online, and many more. For my contribution to the project I researched CAPTCHAs and HTTPS. Both of these provide security for users online and are used daily, more often than once. HTTPS is usually used on sites where you enter private information and use ecommerce. CAPTCHAs are used to protect websites from webcrawlers, spam, and computer generated programs in infect websites/users accounts.

Online entertainment in 10 years

What will I think online entertainment will look like in ten years... There are two ways I think it could go- either crazy, new inventions and ways of accessing online entertainment or just little advancements that don't seem like much of a change. Online entertainment could evolve to holograms from laptops when using your internet browser, or since the internet and being online is growing constantly, more and more websites could start to charge for their entertainment services. While some already do, if it becomes standard for say, social networking sites to start charging, we could very well see that happen. Little changes that could happen are more and more concerts, tv shows, movies, etc could be broad casted online. Or, just making browsers, sites, etc more user friendly.

Snail Mail

Earlier this quarter we had to make a blog post in regards to snail mail versus email. I don't use the postal service as much as I use email anymore. When I was watching the news last night, there was a segment on the new budget cuts that the postal service is going to make. There is going to be $3billion in cuts and for the first time ever in 40 years there will be no chance of next day delivery with usps. I google searched this topic and came across this article.

http://www.newson6.com/story/16186024/us-postal-service-to-announce-details-of-budget-cut-monday