Symposium

To be fair I didn’t actually attend this weeks symposium. It is therefore very convenient that I can ‘legally’ stalk and ‘mention’ someone else’s views on the session and be able to tick my box next week. Cheers Rebecca! Your always on the ball (unless your like me and copy someone else’s).

Anyway according to Rebecca’s post During this week’s symposium, Adrian’s discussion “too-and-froed between databases and design, and it really wasn’t until about half way through until i realised just how interrelated they actually are. Network media now is simply just a mass of mega databases, and really everything we do with technology is dependent on it. For example; pretty much the only phones you see people with now are the iPhone or the Samsung. Whether this heated and business-vicious affair turns out to be just another fad or not, the point is that as a result of this, such a large proportion of society has now linked themselves in with the databases of iCloud or Dropbox. Why so? Is this really because of the technology that is being offered? Or is because of the way in which these fancy new phones are being marketed through the graphical design capabilities that are now available? When you think about the subject of ‘design’ now, it is now about creating something that is better than what is available now, but about creating something that is bigger,better and more advanced then the what people can already predict. Social technology is now changing and advancing faster than it ever has before and because of this databases are now becoming more and more crucial to maintaining security of anything you put online. Or are they? Perhaps the term personal databases would be more appropriate, given the recent celebrity nude hacks…”

Is this post cheating on my behalf? Perhaps. However I could equally argue that I am simply demonstrating my learnt knowledge of copyright laws. Cheers net med.

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