IMHO: Software and applications for holograms will be the next big thing

I wrote previously that getting acquired by Google, Yahoo or Facebook is still a next-big thing. But of course, we all want to know what will be the next big thing similar to Google, Yahoo and Facebook.

We all want to know what is the next big thing. So what is it?

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In my humble opinion, software and applications for holograms are the next big thing. I have always envisioned the future without much of the present hardware for phones, computers, and other gadgets. I am all for a paperless and hardware-less future. This has been my dream since I watched Star Wars. Those who can create technologies with this framework can be the next Steve Jobs.


In the next generations, people can watch FIFA through Avatar's (the movie) technology.




Paulyn Duman
Blog #14
(for September 17)

IMHO: ICT will make this generation's teenagers millionaires

When this 16-year old kid got his first million after 2 years in his business, we know that in this generation and probably in the next one, there will be more young millionaires. Of course, this is not unprecedented. Mark Zuckerberg, founder of Facebook, launched his website in 2004, when he was just a sophomore student at Harvard. After some years, he has become one of the youngest billionaires around the world. I can't help but think of Malcolm Gladwell's book Outliers whenever I read about these stories. In that book, he said:

"[T] he biggest misconception about success is that we do it solely on our smarts, ambition, hustle and hard work."

In Outliers, he hopes to show that there are a lot more variables involved in an individual's success than society cares to admit, and he wants people to "move away from the notion that everything that happens to a person is up to that person".

Am I just rationalizing through Gladwell's theory these people's success that in my humble opinion, if the Filipino people are born in such an environment, with more access to these things and with a government that supports ICT as an integral, if not fundamental, aspect of education, maybe, just maybe, the young millionaires will sprout across the Pearl of the Orient?

It just makes me restless and frustrated to see our country so behind in ICT and its integration in education and governance. I believe, given the same opportunities, our kids can do equally well in making their millions. These days, it is quite clear where the money is going. In my humble opinion, access to ICT resources and opportunities will largely determine who will be the next big thing in Forbes Magazine. And that next person may just be 9 years old making apps for your Smartphones.

Paulyn Duman
Blog #13
(for September 10)

IMHO: Media diet is healthy for students and teachers

When one of our ICT classmates (Rania J) posted about Droste effect and the problems of Wikipedia as depicted by XKCD Comics, I concluded I need to media diet -- cutting on gaming, watching TV, listening to the radio, microblogging, blogging, texting, emailing, and my favorite appetite, surfing the internet. This kind of surfing is not making the waves for my acquisition of discipline and productivity and better grades.

As a usual consequence of this "fascinated clicking", I will need to digress (as always). These are some of the reasons why I go on board and surf. You may want to try them too. Disclaimer: They might not be healthy for you.

SELF-MEDICATE YOURSELF.

I don't go to doctors right away. Below are safe sites to go to when you don't feel like going to the doctor because you think you're not dying anytime soon anyway (these sites are based on an issue of Reader's Digest):


www.myhealth.gov.ph
www.moh.gov.sg
www.webmd.com
medicineplus.gov
www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov
www.cochrane.org.au/library
scholar.google.com
www.patientslikeme.com
www.labtestonline.org


DON'T FACEBOOK WAY TOO MUCH.

Instead, waste your time reading other stuff. Below are sites that sure will waste some hours. I'm not even talking about RPGs or browser games which can waste days and lives.

Am I right or what?

Professional Heckler will sure give you that sense of political correctness, or the lack of it. You need to read this like SCRA.
Mental Floss knows you want to.
Maddox says you can't disagree with this.
27bslash because the kitten is lost.
Tunay na Lalake ka ba?


What's out there?

Dark Roast Blend
Mashable

SCRA should illustrate this way!

Questionable Content is a favorite!
Death Note
Cyanide & Happiness
PHD Comics
Order of the Sticks

So you BitTorrent? Then you should know the Subpoena Defense! Downloading movies for free sure is fun but illegal.


And now back to topic. See how much one can binge on one medium alone? This media-binge can cause short attention spans. But the irony of it all is that, although it lessens your attention span, it still makes you stay online for hours, but only for a few minutes per web page! So finally, why is media diet healthy? In my humble opinion, because it can spell much difference between productivity and stagnation. You don't want to rust on things that really matter in real life (like memorizing the Rules of Court). It can improve your coherence and mastery of a subject too!

I will read on media diet later. Ooops. I meant cases. I wonder if the government can implement a law which regulates media consumption. Unconstitutional? If not, really, how?


The girl with ADD:
Paulyn Duman
Blog #3
Go Germany!

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IMHO: Digitized sins are forgiven
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It's Not the Sword, It's the Man

I have a defined study routine in which the use of my laptop is essential and central. I feel crippled whenever I'm studying and I couldn't hear the quiet hum of my laptop's cooling fan.

Last sem, I lost my laptop. With this, the error of my ways became apparent: I have created an inflexible pattern which incapacitated me for a few days.

I was lost. Then came a bit of pop-tv wisdom from my forever seatmate, Jason: "It's not the Sword, It's the Man."

There's nothing wrong with using ICT breakthroughs to improve our lives. There's a risk, however, of being too dependent on ICT and other technological advances and lose our core competencies.

So, if we liken our consciousness to a desktop, it would be prudent to have permanent system tray notification reminding us that at the end of day, everything is ultimately dependent on flesh and blood.