SPEAIT2021K Carlos Rodriguez

This is my review about the paper CHALLENGES OF THE GLOBAL INFORMATION SOCIETY written by Pekka Himanen. I read some comments on page 13 about the problems in countries like Singapore and China in the long run, since they are not democratic and limits the freedom of people. I agree that a creative person needs this freedom of speech and also to develop his mind and skills but in my view they have both. They are very pragmatic, so they allow some of their best talent to move specially to the States so they can develop and some day come back and be a leaders there. By other hand controlling people, you make sure the factories and production centres, they still rely heavily upon to develop at a 10% rate, are running without any strike or quarrel. Also having this proportion of citizens, you generate a high competition between them and also due to that, people is sometimes prone to move abroad which also is beneficial for the state. Also it is worth mention that the benefits that USA can o...

This week, I will talk about web searches and how they have influenced the internet therefore the World and in particular Google. Let’s start from the beginning. I think when internet started and some thousands of websites where active, the needed for a web searcher could not be seen so relevant, but at some point, the fact of the exponential growth and endless amount of information online, a filter that can drive us to the answer of our question had become essential. It is important to remark that Google started making the money out of adds. The owners of these adds had to pay for the number of clicks received on their website, a model of business called cost per click (CFC), and in fact patented by goto.com, company bought later by Yahoo. Yahoo and Google had a legal battle between them, finally resolved with an out of court agreement where Google agreed to share some of its share values in exchange for its perpetual licence to use, so they bet hard for this model which is still t...

  For the second week task, I will talk about 2 technologies in the history of the Internet such as Aloha that has become obsolete and Ethernet technology that is currently used even though the media used has evolved. First of all, I think it is important to remark that the World Wide Web didn’t come up from nothing but it was the result of multiple steps forward, out of the necessity, to search for solutions to unsolved problems.  Therefore, for instance the ARPANET group wanted to provide remote access to their main computer  system and they were using telephone lines to do so.    By other hand, The system known as Aloha and created by Norman Abramson wanted to do it through shared radio network to overcome the terrain barriers and being able to communicate between the different islands in the Hawaii Archipelago . I took this example as a technology that is no longer used even though it inspired the new wireless technologies that are valid today. The main...