week 2 readings

The Lynch article had some interesting points. definitely agree with him that we need to go out into the world prepared to handle the different kinds of technology. I also agree with that main point that he makes when he says that teaching information technology should be part of the curriculum. I feel elementary and middle schools should have computer classes that teach the kids the basics of how to use them. The article mentioned how important it was for people to need to have a good information literacy and now how to work the newest technology. While I do agree with that I also can't help, but think of older people 60+ who have lived most of their lives without the aide of technology and have no need for it now at and old age. That could the one exception where information literary and an understanding of technology is not needed.

The Lied Library was the one I enjoyed the most. I work at an academic library myself, but only as a student worker. Working in an academic setting I thought I knew how much I took to make a library function well. This article opened my eyes though to all the behind the scenes work I do not see going on such as up keep of the computers and updating them when needed. I also did not know how expensive it was to run a library that was as technologically advanced as that. When they said that for hardware and operating system support only the cost run into the tens of thousands I was shocked. This article made me appreciate the school libraries more know that I know how much they really do.

OCLC article touched on a very important part of the libraries today and that is digitization. What happems when people can get everything they need online and have no need for "containers" i.e. books, cds, journals. Will there still be a need for libraries. One interesting setence that I noted in this reading is that "Libraries need to find ways to deliver quality content to mobile devices. While I do think this is a very good idea I can't help, but imaghine how long it would take to get this to happen and at what price would it come to the libraires to maintain this type of system as well. In this ever changing digital world libraries need to find a way to keep up with it all.

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The muddiest point so far to me was this blog. I am new to blogging and do not know
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week 2 readings

I thought that I was fairly knowledgeable when it came to the various aspects of computers, but after reading the Wikipedia article on computer hardware I realized how little I really know. I did not know what a motherboard was or other items mentioned. The article was a good in depth look at computer hardware and covered a lot. Parts of it where confusing to me especially in a section on internal buses. They used many acronyms in that section such as PCI, AGB, and VLB that I did not understand.

The computer history museum website was interesting to me. It was interesting to see the history of the internet. I had no clue that predecessor of the internet started so early in the 1960's. I wasn't even aware that technology that advanced was being invented that early. I thought the arpanet wasn't being tested till the late 70's into the 80's, but I was wrong. The history of semiconductors was also interesting. This was also new to me so enjoyed learning something new.

The Moore's Law Article

This article throughly confused me. I had to read it more that once to fully understand it and also had to look at other sites as well as look up some of the words to completely grasp the concept. I had to look up the words transistor and semiconductor to understand what they meant so I could proceed in writing this. I did not read all of the blogs yet, but one or two that I did seem to agree with me on some ideas I had when reading this. One thing I noticed was the second sentence. "The number of transistors that can be inexpensively placed on an integrated circuit is increasing exponentially, doubling approximately every two years." I am wondering how big this integrated circuit is that it can keep getting these transistors placed on it? Will there ever be a point when it cannot hold any more transistors and thus Moore's law will be no more? The article seemed unclear on that as it seemed to make a case for both sides of the issue which left me wondering. I also found interesting the section on the futurists. In this section a man name Kurzweil commented on how some new type of technology will replace current integrated circuit technology. One can only image what that would be and it leaves me anxious to await all the new technological advances to be made in the future.