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Future

To speak or write about how things may be in the future. According to me it is very hard to say, because everything, especially technology, is developing so fast that sometimes you feel that you cannot catch up with it.

But I can imagine the development of TV. As I have read one interesting book I have to admit that this could be very interesting issue. I imagine that viewers of TV will be actually taken as a part of broadcasting itself. Users/viewers will participate in the broadcasting in the way that they will create their own films or short series. Then I imagine a committee of some people to evaluate such projects and the best ones will be aired. I have also read that there could be a possibility to place such projects on the web site specially created fot his purpose. In this way there is a possibility that ordinary people could actually vote for their own projects. This would draw people more in the world of TV and could improve the relationship between TV and the audience. It could also draw back the audience, which TV is loosing-the teenageres and youngsters. But who knows? Maybe everything would work in different way and maybe TV is out of place even today…

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To comment on this article more, I would like to mention that there are advantages and disadvatages as everywhere else. I do not really understand why do people create more and more similar things. In the Czech Republic we have a webpage called ''Spoluzaci''. This basically means schoolmates and it works in a similar way as Facebook. There is already a closed group of people but other people if permitted can access as well.
I feel also an certain danger in such an activity-Facebook. As written in the article, there is a danger of having your personal data exposed to everybody, based on filling them in and also the tiring push of advertisements. I feel this as an illusion of control and exposing yourself to the people you even do not know. In my opinion people usually can not think such things to the end...

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The 2nd article

It is generally true that people go with the time. It means that people also develop with the time passing and it also goes hand in hand with the development of technology. The time we live at is developing so fast that we are almost unable to catch up with it. In the means of entertainment it is so as well. People want more. They actually might not want more but the society force them to. Everything is conected to everything. We developed into the consumer society and the turning and driving force is business! There are inventions and everything is going so fast. It almost seems that once you get accustomed to one thing, another one emerges. It seems crazy and some of us go even beyond that...There are people that want to be faster than their favourite TV serie. They try to find out what is going to happen in the folowing episode. They even have their own websites or chatting rooms where they discuss these things. Those people take it as an advantage and they are really obsess by it. I guess that is the way people will live in the future. Everything is going to be only for some time and then there will be something new. The question is, if it will make people satisfied. My opinion is that there are lots of dissatisfied people. But in such a society? Why would anyone care?

The 3rd movie

The story continues with the fear of the Xerox PARC company. They wanted to stay in the market and came out with the idea of printer, Enternet and even a mouse. Ideas were great but there was no understanding for them. Only one man became involved- Steve Jobs. He changed this ideas into reality. The only problem was the price of such PC. This was the reason why Macintosh was finally created. It was still more expensive than IBM's computers but it meant a revolution. But another problem emerged. It was very hard to print exactly the same thing which was on the computer screen. To improve this new situation, Xerox came up with laser printer. In the same time there were changes in the Apple company and Steve Jobs left.
Microsoft, feeling the right time, emerged by steeling (as Apple said) ideas from Apple's GUI for their Windows, meaning another sucess for Bill Gates. He was again at the right place in a right time. Windows 3 is taking the leading role. However, there are some critiques saying that Windows is not as good as it should be. But Microsoft opposes that they are still improving it by new versions.
Conclusion of the movie and the whole series is that technology is moving so rapidly that nobody is able to predict what the future or even tomoroow will be like.

The 2nd movie

This movie is dealing with the dividing line between young boys who are having fun with creating PC and the real business. There are no more amazing stories about creating PCs in a garage.
In 1980s it is Apple, the company which takes the leading place. Another great company IBM is going its own direction, gives the contract to Bill Gates and Microsoft and creates new PC. IBM is very successful and is becoming a monopoly covering 50% of trade. But there is a problem, the PC is easy to copy. Under the reverse engineering Compaque creates a portable computer and other rivals emerge.
IBM and Bill Gates (Microsoft) are at the turning point. Microsoft decides to go their own way and creates Windows (for PC to be more user-friendly). Gates is driven forward by his incredible desire to win and to be the first one with new idea because he knows that in business you have to be in right place at the right time. Final version of Windows (created by Apple) blows away all rivals.

The 1st movie

It was very interesting to see the beginings of the personal computers. The inventors, young interested white boys from middle-class families, were kind of unreal to me. But I can understand their desire and I believe that it is possible for those children to be ''in the thing''. Young children are very adaptable to new things and it is much more easy for them to learn new things.
Why nerds? I think that those people, ones who are interested in computers, are different. I do not mean generally. But it seems to me that these people do not fit into society and they try to find something to be good at. If somebody says a ''computer expert'', I always imagine a person with glasses and without communication abilities. In this case I see the computer as a friend who never leaves such people alone.
Another thing is the typical ''boy thing'' (it has to do lot with gender) to have a field which they are good at. This is not so important for girls, so this is maybe the reason why there were no girls involved. Another reason is that girls usually do not appear in the technological sphere.
I would like to look at this issue from the psychological aspect as well.

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