Sunday, February 12, 2012

Week 6 Readings


Internet has been part of my life for more than decade, I didn't really think about the basic structures. The instantaneous information from the internet used to be a luxury during modem dial ups; with fiber optics it is common. When I read about fiber optics... I recall reading the articles about companies putting in fiber optics lines on the properties. In spite of the damages, evidently fiber optics is widely used all over the country. It is quite a vast linking of the servers and networks.  Some of these articles were horrific due to the costs in the damages. By then, we've become more interconnected thanks to fiber optics. The lecture about Google was really fascinating- their picture of globe with colors representing languages in Google search. 20 percent of its time to focus on the small projects was quite interesting, something to think about as librarian. Google books are one of their projects. Educause website had praises for their project. Their project represented a step in rapid changing technology. It would have been nice to read about the opposition against this project.

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