Saturday Introduction to Information Systems

As the article states more and more things are becoming connected to the internet through RFID. Casual things from light bulbs to dishwashers and thermostats.

I believe as time passes it will become a norm that all of our electronic home aplliances and devices are connected to the internet and are being controlled from any location at any time.

I dont believe that this will become a privacy issue. I think that as technology improves the security of our privacy will improve as well. I dont believe hackers will try to figure out our consumption habbits as I dont see how it will help them to know how often do we use our a/c and if our lights are on or not. I do believe that marketing companies will gather this information to try to address us more personally. However I think that if they would have liked to gather such information today they would have been able to even without having all our appliances ‘connected’.

By having more of our lives online, will our daily lives become more visible to outsiders on the internet?
How do we prevent outsiders from viewing and tracking even the smallest details of our lives?

It goes hand in hand, the more time you spend online- the more visible you become to everyone on the internet. Depending on what you do online; blog, facebook, or shop, you are constantly filling out information about yourself. When you’re on facebook, you are describing your everyday activities to others. You share your photos with everyone on the internet when you post a profile picture. All shopping websites will also store your information before you can make a purchase. Sites such as amazon and ebay will even gather your purchasing trends.

In order to prevent outsiders from tracking the smallest details of our lives, you need to be more careful on which information you’re sharing online. You should only post information that you are willing to release. You might think that if you post something on Facebook, it will only be shown on Facebook. However, these days that’s not the case. You can share something on facebook and it’ll spread throughout the whole internet within days. It’s completely up to you on how much information you’re willing to release to the internet.

-Alex Aleksandrovski

I came from Russia, people their use technology more and more even though it is still not that easy to find WI-FI everywhere. In terms of regular users most of the people there have computers and smartphones, a lot of them use different kinds of social networks, not only Facebook but two other Russian social networks are very popular too: Odnoklassniki.ru and VK.ru. They also use not only Google or Yahoo as a search engine but Yandex.ru.

By Irina Shulgina

• Should executors be allowed access to a deceased persons’ email and Facebook accounts?
•   I think there should be laws created which will resolve this kind of questions. I believe it should include certain circamstances when executors will be allowed to access a deceased persons email or Facebook account. The U.S. is a common law country, so usually a lot of cases are resolved on the basis of previous case experience and previous decision of the judge, so digital legacy is very new thats why when cases arise most of the judges have to make these new decisions which will become the basis for new laws.
• Why would technology companies like Google be opposed to laws that allow other people to access a user’s account after that person dies?
• I think because they want to prove everybody that privacy is the most secured issue and they are able to protect their users from invasion to their personal files. Google is a private company as well and when people start to use its services they have contract with this company they trust their personal stuff to them so it is very questionable if other people can have access to those files even after their deaf, as they didn’t allow this access before thats why only them knew their passwords. I believe that in the recent future we will face a lot of issues and cases connected with digital legacy.

By Irina Shulgina

1.Neurology deals with the diagnosis and treatment of all categories of disease involving the central, peripheral, and autonomic nervous systems, including their coverings, blood vessels, and all effector tissue, such as mus
According to Greg Gage “basic neuroscience research is the answer to curing many of the most devastating neurological disorders such as Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s.” He is stressing the need of informing younger generations about these diseases and how the brain works by using interactive and interesting methods taht are at the same time cost effective. Gage’s Spiker Box invention is just a first attempt in showing that technologies can really enhance the interest of all ages in studying neuroscience.For example, by recording the neurons of an insect on a device through an app it can be very interesting and appealing. Since our present is ruled by the advanced technologies, linking neuroscience with it can impact greatly the future interest of the mass in studying neuroscience. And this will in turn help generate more solutions for treating diseases like Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s that are affecting abut 20 % of the entire world and might affect a larger number of people in the future.

2. It is amazing how and I-pod can make a cockroaches leg move.
Cells of the nervous system, called neurons, are specialized to carry “messages” through electrical pulses traveling down long extensions called axons. Cockroaches leg starts to move once connected to the I-pod that is playing a song and generates impulses to the leg’s muscles.The output is neural activity, or “spikes”, that can be heard via a built-on speaker, or seen on your computer, iPhone, Android, iPad, or iPod Touch.

• What tips does the CEO of SplashData give for creating a unique password?
• Why are passwords important?

The CEO of SplashData suggests that people use different passwords for each account they have, and to make it easier to remember we should think of them as “passphrases.” Another tip he gave was to add underscores and hyphens to make the password even more secure and unique.

Passwords are important because protect our personal information, such as bank account information. It is important to not to disregard the importance of making a good and secure password because you never know who is out to get you!

1. Since 1982, our society has undergone many technological advances like the cellular telephone becoming pervasive, as well as the implementation of the home computer.  Yet, we are still using the CD, which is now 30 years old.  Why hasn’t this medium advanced at the same speed as other areas of technology?

Currently we are on the verge of the CD becoming completely obsolete. We have various ways to store data, obtain music and play video games. Flash disks or drives are soon to replace the CD by being better in every way. They are faster,smaller and can store crazy amounts of data. The CD has not evolved as did others technologies, i think, because we had no need to advance in this are. The CD quenched our thirst for awhile. Now a days, our new technology require new and more powerful products that can support new technology.

2. How soon until CDs and CD players become obsolete?

CDs and CD players are quickly becoming useless in this new era of technology. I figure that by 2014 or 2015 CDs are going to become the new vinyl records. 30 years of a single technology without evolution is very impressive, but I’m sure it won’t reach 40. SSD(Solid State Drives) are relatively new technology that soon will be standard in all computers. This tech substitutes the older Hard drive technology which in some ways are kind of like CDs. SSDs are the new waves of the 21st century. All in all, CDs and CD players are soon to be extincted.

-Pedro Dalcolmo

           Philippines like any other developing countries benefit from technology in many ways. Since the rise of the computers in the Philippines had started, the people had greatly benefitted from it in a sense that advances in computers and telecommunications would mean more access to networking from within and outside of the country, and also getting more updates in terms of information to the public. More specifically, I have noticed a big boom in telemarketing jobs in the Philippines which opened many opportunities for many working college students to earn money. And in a political point of view, computerization of election processes has made it more efficient and convenient for a voter which leads to better understanding of how accurate the government would work. If this keeps up,  perhaps the advances in technology could expand to the agriculture of the country which in turn could help the economy grow. If this could be done, then Philippines would fix many problems from within such as less inflation and poverty.

– Jose Fuentes

          Cellphone companies today face many problems, but perhaps the most prominent one is the threat of losing services for millions of users in the amidst of a hurricane. To deal with this threat, the service carriers usually prepare much equipment that either acts as protection or backup if the first fails to protect. Some ramifications used include sand bags, impact-resistant windows, hardened concrete, and reinforced steel roof grids (money.cnn.com). But once the hurricane proved to be too powerful, carriers make temporary cell towers, generators, and diesel trucks as backups. The most important one of al are the batter backups, which could power the cell for a day or two as well as diesel generators once that battery dies.  Strong winds from hurricanes aren’t the only ones carriers have to worry about; towers located in below-sea level areas are also at risk of flooding. Unfortunately, the only way to prevent flooding is to relocate.

– Jose Fuentes