Tuesday, April 21, 2015

Module 13: Reviewing what I learned


              With this assignment I will recall what I have learned throughout the semester.  Probably the biggest thing I have gained has been a new perspective looking at the world.  Thomas Friedman’s book The World is Flat gave me new eyes to see the modern world.  Usually at the end of the semester I will return all of my school books.  However, I am going to choose to keep this book so I can look back on it at occasion.  Friedman helped me realize how I need to be more successful in today’s world because the world is so flat and interconnected. 

                I enjoyed the computer based movies and short stories we watched and read.  Those gave me new perspectives as to why it is important to be human.  I watched Minority Report and learned why it is important to have a human perspective, and not just computers.  Now, when I watch movies I try to learn from them.

                We read a couple articles in this class.  The article that I really enjoyed was called why the future doesn’t need us by Bill Joy.  Whenever I heard about robots taking over, or about robots taking the places of human beings I felt that it was always intended that the robots would all of the sudden perform a hostile takeover on the humans.  In this article Bill quotes a man that says in if robots or technology do take the place of humans the most likely way that it will happen is that us humans we slowly allow ourselves to drift into a position where we depend on machines to make every decision in our lives.  I thought that was so cool! I printed off the article and am going to keep it.  Perhaps why I like that part of the article the most is because I see it a lot in today’s world.  It is almost impossible to avoid it.  I have gone to google to make many of my decisions, just as many other people have.  It is hard for me to imagine machines rising up one day to take over the world and perform a hostile takeover over the human race.  It is much easier for me to imagine this type of switch of power between the human race and the machines.   

                I really enjoyed the structure of this class.  This was by far my favorite class so far in my college education.  I liked how we read a book and learned how to apply and interpret what we learned.  I like how everything I learned in this class will help in my future as a successful businessman. 

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