Virtual Human Interaction Lab

Recent studies have shown that the Stanford Interaction Laboratory where someone would watch themselves in the digital world physically geting slimmer by working out and going through physical activity in the virtual world would directly affect the way one would act outside of this. This studies says that someone would change their work out and eating habits if they watched themselves on the computer and seeing that it would actually work. I disagree with this study although it was proven true, I think that alot of people would not change their habits just by watching themselves. Another interesting point that was brought up was that after someone were to see themselves on the screen physically becoming more in shape they would mentally gain more confidence in the outside world. I think if you were to watch yourself enough on the computer as a slim lean and fit person this would change the way you would interact with other people, I feel you would gain a new sense of confidence because this has been put into your brain that this is how you look.

Hackers

Steve Wozniak
John Draper
Kevin Mitnick

Steve Wozniak is a computer engineer and a co founder of apple computers. He was one of the first hackers and established the base of these skills that are used all over the world today.

John Draper AKA "Captain Crunch"- captain crunch with the help of a blind friend helped Draper to figure out that if they could whistle into a phone at the same frequency that AT&T uses that they could hack the phone line and make free phone calls.

Kevin Mitnick- is a computer hacker and a convicted criminal in the United States because of his hacking. Mitnick was convicted in the late 90's of gaining access to computer networks and stealing intellectual property. He spent 5 years in prison.

Although at the time these three guys were "phone phreaks" they set the way for what is known today as hacking.

TED

Our generation today lives in a way where they read and write. Today the youth creates T.V. and remakes things from ideas they get from someone elses work. Kids today are living their lives illegally and the older generation needs to learn to accept this because their ways arent going to change they can just be monitored slightly and kids are going to do illegal stuff on the web no matter what.

Pictures

Net Neutrality & Android

Net Neutrality is what we have today that makes the internet public and allows anyone to visit any site on the internet. There is a huge debate today on whether we should have net neutrality, companies such as; comcast, verizon and at&t want to privatize the internet and want people to pay to visit certain sites.

The new google phone is called android. This phone will be an operating system that will be able to run on many different phones. Google is making this software that will be free and can run on any other phones. Google has 33 partners to help with this new software.

DARPA Contest

A Chevy Tahoe made by Carnegie Melon University (CMU) won the Darpa contest that was held in California. Carnegie Melon walks away with a $2 million grand prize.