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Koan 4—Processing its Power (page 8)
The one thing I found interesting about Koan 4 is that “since 2001, processor speed has not followed Moore’s Law; in face, processors have hardly grown faster at all” (8). I have heard about the Moore’s Law before I read about it in chapter one. Gordon Moore observed that the density of integrated circuits seemed to double every couple of years. This is not the case anymore. There is more of a rapid increase compared to at least a three decades of increase. With how fast technology is growing it will get to the costumers quicker. Now we have face and voice recognition and new inventions have been formed. This is an intelligent source and so intelligent that everything is faster and quicker within days and months. In 1940, a computer could perform about five operations per second and over 70 years later, “the fastest today can perform about a trillion now”. A trillion. I did not realize this until I read this chapter. This makes me think about how every day we seem to move in a faster pace and move in a faster pace with technology.
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Tiffany,
Yoga and meditation I find as the main key in my life for over the past year or so now. It has helped a lot in many different ways. It’s always a great thing afterwards to regain some focus, if not all. -
Mike,
You are right about practicing Zen meditation. I have been doing it for over a year now and it has cleared my mind and made me focus more on many different things. I have seen a growth in myself overall with improvements that I thought were not possible especially with writing my book, but mainly studying and writing papers. -
Out of all of chapter one the one thing that stuck out to me was on page 39. It says that, “The part of your brain that you use to retrieve memories and keep information in your working memory is referred to as the “executive control” or “cognitive control” function.” We can keep up to seven chunks of information in our memory and if we want to work with more than sometimes we swap out current information in order to put the new one in. I found this interesting because 10 years ago I feel into a diabetic coma in which my mind swapped everything from the first 11 years of my life to the point that I only remember people close to me and it is as of today that I am starting to remember only a couple things but they are just blurry images.
Now, I have a memory problem that causes me to not remember as much or to really focus on certain things to remember as well as adding more at the same time. When it comes to the web, I can’t just be on one thing at once. I am always on different web pages trying to learn new things (and through books too). I have the lack of memory and attention span. Once I shift my attention, it is hard to go back on topic. Which is why, a part of my learning disabilities, I have to take quizzes and exam separately from others so I can just focus on the most important thing at the time. I know my brain does function and I actually remember a good amount especially when it comes to talking and I just spit out random facts.
I find the memory and attention to be an interesting factor. Your brain is always refocusing and filing out competing information in order to move from one thing to another. This chapter got me thinking to how I use the web every day and how processing those things are different than day to day things I might learn. Imitation seems to be a key role when it comes to attention and memory.
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Hi everyone, my name is Victoria Alexandra Madden. I am a senior at WVU with a major in English with a concentration of Creative Writing and Professional Writing and Editing as well as a major in History. I am also an author of “The Book of Darkness: The Cora Myers Series”. It it book one of five and has been out since December 2013. I plan to graduate fall of 2015 and hope to go into the field of fact checking with writing more novels as a hobby.
What I hope to get out of this class is to just learn more about Multimedia and gain knowledge of tools I might not have been aware of. I just want a better understanding of things electronically with making websites and knowing different ways of communication.
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What I got out of Koan 2: Perfection is Normal is that computers and networks are not perfect. There is always a glitch. Like it states, “when books were laboriously transcribed by hand, errors crept in with every copy” (6). There are still mistakes today and we see that all the time. Especially with it being on the computer; people are typing more and we all believe that whatever the document says is correct we use. However, we have so many different types of words that are similar that we just assume. There comes an extent to how perfect something really is when it comes to technology. It does not do everything for us. We still have to go back and make sure it is almost 100% accurate if not, all. With this, there is that bit in the networks that pass from one place to another. You mention about copies and even the book does. Today, it is easier to make the copies of songs, or whatever you need, then it was when all we had where audio tapes.
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Hey Tarin,
I found Koan 5 to be interesting and I completely agree with you. When you have something like technology, people always think they have something and it will never change. However, there is that one thing that will change it to be better. That is why we already have an iPhone6. Everything is constantly emerging and with things growing, I always ask myself what will happen if one day this growth just stops and everything crashes? We are so used to having everything new given to us that we start to forget about the small things. They could change into something bigger just like you said in your post, but sometimes those small things will stay small. Everything is being out dated before it’s even on the shelves. It is always challenging the way we think. To me, it seems like the technology is making it easier for everyone and then I think back to the question about everything crashes? What would be left? There is a fight out there that everyone needs the newest thing. Ever since I went to England, I notice the small things for not having this growing technology and thought I wasn’t always up to speed on things. Technology is a distraction and it will continue to be one every time something new comes out and grows more. We rely on technology, so much that they way we think is changing as well.
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Hi Justin, I saw that you like to write during your free time. What type of genres do you tend to write? I also noticed you are in the MAC Program here. What are you studying and focusing on?
