Chi Wai-Blog Post # 11

For the blog post today, which is about the digitised influence people's lives. As my experience, from the old day to nowadays, there are a lot of thins changed. especially digitised is one of the important things that changed a lot in out lives. when I was young, when the digitised first come, most of them were focus on the medical and science perspectives. It was not a common thing for people to use things with digitised. In 1990s, to buy a computer which is a very expensive thing for people. Therefore, compare to the day now. It is totally different, digitised is becoming the dispensable things in our lives. 

In the old day, to use a computer was definitely an expensive tool. Most of the usages were in the medical and science way. Not all the people can interact with that. Also to use the digitized in the company which had to cost a lot. So not many companies or industries could be able to afford the big amount of money for supporting the digitized. But since the society changing everyday, now in the 2014, digitized is anywhere, digitized becomes a dispensable tool in people’s lives. For instance, Wifi, computer access, smart phone, etc. There are a lot of devices that connected to people’s lives and once people lost the connection with the digitized, their lives seems depressed. I have a story wan to share that is from some websites. The story talks about like there are many young people now need wifi to access internet. They would like to find a dirty place to eat dinner but have wifi rather than go to the clean one but without wifi. The most careful thing for people is the Internet rather than food. That seems ridiculous but I believe that something really happened like that.  

Blog#10-Chi Wai

For today's reading. I would like to talk about how the internet affected people's life. In my point of view, I feel like internet changed people s life a lot. Compare to the old day, the lifestyle now is totally different than before. For example, in my experience, when I was young like 15 years old, there was not so convenient to reach internet anywhere and anytime. I feel like I talked more to my family, like everyday after school, we talk and watch TV together. We like to share when we did on that day. It was a very great time I think. But now, because of the easy to get internet, there is a less conversation between my family and friends I think. Now, when we done with work or school and go home, then we will just focus on our own tablet or computer or even smart phone. We don't talk so much to each other then, like my bother just focus on his phone for playing games. My mom watches TV on her Tablet. My father watches news on his computer, and I would just go on internet and randomly searching. I feel like my family's conversation now is less than before.

Also, for my friends group, we have a lot of interesting experience about the internet, like one time when my group of friends went travel, every time when we find a place for having lunch or dinner, the first priority thing is the internet. My group of friends must to find a place that has free WiFi, they won't eat. It is a very series problem existing in my friends' group. I feel like we cannot just focusing on the phone all the time. I world prefer to hang out with them  and doing other something else rather than just play, chatting or even watching on the phone. I think this is one of the problem from internet  that makes people kind of being an internet slave.

Blog#9 - Chi Wai

For the blog post today, I am going to talk about how the digital grow in our society. I would like to compare digital in the education system and the family interaction between the old day and nowaday. About the education, as my experience in my country "China". I still remember when I was in high school. In my writing classes, we don't have any of the online dictionary or even google translate. The only way that we can use is the electronic dictionary, which looks like the very small calculator. We have to bring that to the class everyday. It was annoying sometimes, it was not so convince since that small dictionary is just for translating, and the translating system just supported English to Chinese, or Chinese to English. After a few years later, since the development of the society, all students are getting rid of that kind of dictionary. Most of the students now are using online dictionary or even google translate on computer or on their own phone. They don't have to worry about bringing a small machine and worrying that it might run out of battery. This is actually a very big change of one side of the digital technology. the grow up of the "Digital" Helps to convince people's life so much. Also, on the other side of the education system, in the old day, all the homework or writing that students do were on the real paper, students had to use the hand writing to finish their works or  assignments. But now, it is totally different, there are no students that using hand-writing on the work, all students are using computer to type or even using a tablet to type for finishing their work. This is actually a very good way to human's live, in the old day, because all the things that were using hand-write, it was hard for people to save the record since there are a lot of papers. But now, all the things are in computer and people can just hit save then it already saved the things safety in the computer. Digital technology is a very important technology in our life.

Also, for the family interaction, I feel like most of the families being closed after the high technology invented. In the old day, since the lack of the digital technology, people' s interaction might be not that close to each other. For instance, a student left her family and went oversea for studying, then they were hard to see each other in the next few years, they might have to wait till their child done with the school then finally can see each other. Therefore,  studying abroad was a very sad and hard thing for people. But in nowday, it is so easy to each other even a student left their family since the high technology like skype, viber, facetime, etc. Those apps are very easy to use and to contact to friends or families. students, or people don't have to worry about leaving their family or friends. Therefore, the high technology's invention is a very great skill for helping people have a better live. For my experience here, my family and I didn't talk so much before, our relationships were not so close to each other since my parents were busy on their works. In the old days, it was not easy to just chat with family or parents through the apps or text message since the low digital technology. But now, it is so easy to chat to family and friends anywhere and anytime. This is a very important way that made most of the family member becoming closer. Like in China, we have a few apps like wechat, whatsapp and line that are very convince for people chatting to each other. I am so glad that the grow up of the digital technology that make my family members being so close to each other.

Chi Wai - Blog Post # 8

For the part two of the book reading, I would like to focus on how the technology influence between family, friends or even relatives. As I am an example, I am an international student and I left my family to come to US to finish my bachelor degree. In the old day, this is a very hard thing to do since the lack of the technology support. It's hard to contact the family once we left them. Go back to the last twenty years, many people were just using letters or notes to contact each other. it was so expensive to have a telephone. Once the family member left, then have to wait for so long to see them again. Therefore, not so many people want to leave their family and go for study abroad.

Compare to the modern society now, no one never worry about hard to see each other or hard to contact each other since our high technology in the whole world. People can chat to each other anytime and anywhere. They never don't have to worry about how can we see again or how can we contact again. The only thing that people now concern is just wifi. Wifi is a good invention for convince people's live. But sometimes people over related on that, espically the younger people. They will feel super sad or disappointed when they live without wifi. Therefore, wifi is good for people but sometimes kind of hurting people to be a wifi slave.

Chi Wai - Blog # 7

Blog Post#6

For the blog post today, I also read about more writing system in the book. I would like to compare the first book orality and the writing in this book, we are going to explore which one is the most important. In my opinion, the oral in the very old day is already exist. The first thing for people to communicate to each other is language which is orality. Different area have their own languages. Like some of the area now, they don't have the writing system, they just live with orally styles ten during their whole life, people using the storytelling to be a record instead of the writing system. We can see that how orality important to people's live.
In the opposite way, I think writing is not so important. And as our society' a development. All the people will just talk rather than write. Writing is kind of fall behind

Chi Wai Lei - Blog Post# 5

for today's blog post, I would like to talk about the comparison of the old writing material and the writing material today. In the chapter 5 of the book, it talks about the old writing material people to writing words on that which is clay. Clay is a hard and dry material. it sounds like it's not so easy to write on. But according to the wisdom of the old people. They can make the clay in different shapes that they write things on. Basically, there are a few processes to work on the clay before people write things on it. The clay at first is pretty wet, people have to shape it as a flat things then they have to let it dry out a little bit and finally they can write things on it. It is pretty complicated process and takes times. Like every time when people want to write somethings down, they have to take an hours to work on the clay then they can write things down. Also ,the clay has just two sides on it, which means people really have limitation on words writing. Even it takes times and complicated, this skill really helps people to record their culture, languages or other stuff down and pasted to their next generations.

As our society develop so fast, now we never have to worry about the paper supply in our daily life. The papers are cheap and people can buy them anywhere. Also, when you just walk on the street, you will see a lot of different style papers with advertisements, they have big, small, also in any shapes. Also, as the development of the technologies, people don't even have to worry about the real paper anymore since all the record are now saving in computer rater than  areal paper.