Thursday’s class discussion was very interesting. Michelle and James did a great job with their presentation and getting everyone involved in the readings. I left class quite disturbed though. There are so many new advancements in technology that I wasn’t aware of. Prof. Halavais and Michelle discussed the site where you can look up your street address and actually zoom in to your house or apartment. In a way I thought that was a cool new idea. On the other end, I thought about stalkers and predators. Prof. Halavais pointed out that down the road, you will be able to see things in real time with that site. That function would allow a complete stranger to see whether someone is  home or not just by clicking on his mouse.

Today, I was at work and I went on the internet to look up the rainforest cafe. I was going to take my daughter there after I finished getting some things done. She asked me if we had google. And I asked her how she knew about google. She said that you can look things up there and that at school, they had visited the site. I thought that was funny. We had just talked about the power of the google name and now my 8 year old daughter was asking me to go on google.com.