Revolution Reaction

After watching that video I am scared. I am scared of Google, Facebook, and the internet in general. Even as I type, there is something recording it, even as you read it, something is recording it as well. I am scared to Google something/anything ever again. This video makes me want to go live on a deserted island and live under a rock without a cellphone, internet, or any electric power at all. I find it completely and utterly devistating to find out that a ginormous server is tracking my every move. Overall, I can find some comfort that I have taken this course, and now know that the danger, and creepiness exists. That alone, gives me enough comfort to survive in this technologically ruled world.

Google Drive

The new program that Google has developed is called Google Drive. It is useful, but there are some problems with it. First, if you upload a document or other item, edit it on your desktop, and upload it again, it will upload the whole document again, taking up twice the space. 2nd, if a file is in Google Drive for more than 30 days, it becomes obsolete, and you can't retrieve it. 3rd deleted files take up memory in the Drive. If you upload a file, than delete it, the memory it took up is not available to be used for something else. 4th, Google Drive uploads a file twice, and it takes twice the storage space. 5th, you cannot upload or sync a file more than 10gb's. This is a real downer. A lot of the information that I use is much more than 10 gb. Anyway, these are the problems with Google Drive.

Operation: Internet Freedom and Revolution

Google, E-bay, Facebook, Amazon, and Wikipedia are all the top websites of the entire World Wide Web. And they are all free. Ever since the opening up of information and sharing of information of the 1960's, there has been a huge internet revolution. The revolution started with the hippie movement in San-Francisco, the idea of the time was that everyone should be free, open and sharing. And, coincidentally, San Fran. was the place where the first civilian computers came together under a server called The Well. The Well was just a server that allowed gigantic chat rooms, all linking the computers and thus the people involved. Soon, once people were designing software and sharing it, everyone was getting the same software, thus similar to the sharing movement of the 60's. But, a man named Bill Gates began to end the era of sharing software. He decided that if you designed something, and someone else wanted to use it that they should pay you for it. Not long after that, a young man in a dorm room restarted that idea about sharing information. He began by sharing music. Anyway, should the information we have amongst us be so free? Should Google, E-bay, Facebook, Amazon, and Wikipedia regulate their website's usage? I think that if they wanted to make much more money than they are making right now, that yes they should. People will never stop using Google, even if they charge only one cent a month, they would make millions of dollars more than they do already. But, I can say that, if...if... they decide to stop making their websites free, I will boycott using their information services. I do not have to have Google to write a research paper, and I would not give a single cent to any of those websites to use them. I think that those services should remain free and open to the public, and to the world.

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