Final Thoughts

The most important thing that I learned in this course was a basic conception of how the technology I use day to day actually works. I think it is becoming more and more common that people take for granted all of the wonderful technologies we have. As I have said previously, what would people do if water stopped coming out of their pipes or their refrigerator turned off? No one really knows how to grow their own food or make their own clothes. I think that one day this knowledge is going to be very important and you can observe it’s up coming importance in the rising cost of labor services like construction.
I wish we could have gone more in depth on this subject of functionality. I would have really liked to understand the working parts of the internet. Fiber optics fascinates me simple due to the fact that they run across oceans and through countries. We are connected by wires but most people don’t know this and believe that the Internet is this elusive technology that has simple sprung up out of no where.
Politics will never be a subject that I enjoy because of my own viewpoint. Unfortunately, I think that politics is a red herring. It is set up to be the center of power and also specifically deceit. I believe that today, politics detract attention from the atrocities committed by multinational corporations. Therefore, it is more interesting to me to learn who is in control on the Internet, than how the Internet is helping those “in control”.