CP102 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Eric Whitacre, Web 2.0, How We Think
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Chapter 1: using technology to change the world. Social networking tools: enables the gathering of groups of people to connect and exchange ideas, brings people together that are facing repression and censorship, poliicians have begun to incorporate social networking as part of their campaign. Crisis-mapping tool: collects informaion from e-mails, text messages, blog posts, and tweets then maps them instantly making the informaion publicly available. Health care: computaionally intense modeling sotware is helping researchers increase the pace of vaccine producion, saving lives, biomedical chips could also restore quality vision to the blind. Environment: tagged with geographical informaion, the data could alert scienists to new trends in our environment, we could protect ourselves from pandemics by idenifying outbreaks very early. Informaion and products were being served up at an amazing rate so the patern of thinking of future consumpion became a habit.
