Session 5- The ICT

In today’s TWC lesson about information and communications technology, we talked about many issues in different areas of interest ranging from the definition of mass media to the internet to applying these technologies into everyday lives like wireless handphone charging to cars communicating with each other. We also talk a new term not commonly heard of.. the CKO, chief knowledge officer. Gaming was another interesting topic we talked about because of the amount of spin offs that can come out from it.

The thing I found most interesting and excite me the most was the convenience I will be experience in the years to come when devises communicates to each other. Automated driving from my car, when my car nears home, it signals to my heater, aircon, cooker etc. The idea of automation is extremely commoving, not that I’m super lazy but rather that it can save me so much time.

The next Idea that interest me is about knowledge management. Currently I believe the only course available in knowledge management out of the 3 big universities in Singapore is Masters in knowledge management in NTU. Perhaps not the biggest area in management, categorizing knowledge is still important. If one is able to categorize knowledge in our minds efficiently we will see vast improvement in 2 area: 1. Cognitive speed- being able to think much faster, we don’t have to search too hard to recall a piece of information. 2. Remembering information. In psychology we learn that if we have “folders” to store our “files” of information, we will learn much faster and remember better and longer. Knowing that knowledge management is growing, I might consider taking up courses on it.

Quick takeaways from the lesson:
-Change in mass media over the years: mass media evolved from uni-directional to multi-directional.
-What the second meaning of cloud, other than the ones we see when we look up.
-That Web3.0 is the all knowing internet, the world’s new god?
-Gaming technology have a lot of interesting spin offs.
-The technology of wireless energy is coming yay no need for heavy battery packs.

I will rate this class a 7/10. Simply it got me excited about technology again.