Monday, November 12, 2012

Here Comes Me!

    "It wasn't until the student's writing assignments became blog posts did the quality of their writing increase dramatically" -Dr. K..
    People, writing music, recording music, making videos, and dancing.  These are all things I love.  The fact that the time and effort I put into the things have a guaranteed audience greatly enhances my desire to continually stay involved in such activities.  What would I be doing at my age had I been born 10 years prior?
    Networking has brought about justice.  Before now a person had to get past the men wearing suites who "know what people like" in order to do what they love.  But now that unofficial monopoly can be bypassed, giving opportunity to anyone that wants to be seen and heard.  Anyone can share anything they feel anytime!  Knowledge about anything is at everyone's fingertips, something the world didn't see coming.
    Does having all information at everyone's fingertips introduce danger into society?  I don't think so.  Within modern day networking we are seeing the formation of several connected graphs incomprehensibly large in size.  The connections being added to these networks cause a true exponential growth in complexity.  These complexities are what's protecting us; they're what make our passwords and other forms of encryption safe.  Social media, and other cyber-networks, simulate a non-deterministic Turing machine, a device that is believed impossible to exist.  But such complex data structures can not efficiently be processed, or traversed, in a reasonable amount of time even by the world's fastest super computers.  Such networks are only as dangerous as are the methods used to traverse them which is significantly lowers the chance of information being used to resurrect Big Brother.
    Of course networking has brought about justice assuming people are truly free to express themselves.  What about China?  The largest population simply being restricted from the planet's greatest sources of information:  Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, Flickr, MySpace, Google, etc..  This is only damaging.  True dead-weight-loss.
Symbolizing China'a Great Firewall
    Having information at our fingertips is a new concept and the potential it gives the human race has not even come close to being breached.  We are now living in a modern-day Renaissance.  Previous obstacles that prohibited so much creative expression have disseminated, leaving behind doors of opportunity that can be opened by a person's effort alone.  So how are you taking advantage of what is no longer holding you down?

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