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2004 Information Society Report to the Parliament of Finland by Pekka Himanen Week 4

 Resources: https://web.archive.org/web/20170221105053/https://www.eduskunta.fi/FI/tietoaeduskunnasta/julkaisut/Documents/tuvje_1+2004.pdf      After reading 2004 information society report to the Parliament of Finland by Pekka Himanen I just could not disagree with even one word. Seems like a man really saw what was coming and put his efforts to display it on the paper in front of Committee.     Changes we can do together is so simple and that it is funny just to watch 75% of the world to sink in the ocean. The distribution of money is very unfair. Gap between rich and poor people. With just simple distribution everyone can get education at universities and schools and have food at home. USA is printing so much money and invest in military trillions of dollars. The mentality still kills the world. Preparing army for "star wars" ? More than half the earth dies in poverty, even more the natural life is destroyed daily. Animals are dying, Trees are cut, Oceans are polluted, Ice

Multi-user online games week 3

    We all remember the enjoyable days of playing Warcraft sci-fi spin-off that inspired numerous imitations and development of modern gaming. Warcraft as we know consists of several expansions and basically it is a strategy game Blizzard's first creation. The success of Warcraft made Blizzard the most successful developer of gaming industry. Many of you maybe heard about eSports and unfished competition between millions of players worldwide. Well the funding would be without Blizzard.     Lets move on to next stage of Warcraft's creation. This is the period when strategy games were gaining the power of mainstream and gatherings tons of users daily making gaming enjoyable. But the birth of World Of Warcraft was beyond fantasy, It was actually the real world with magic creatures and dungeons and raids for players. Thousands of quests with exciting stories. It actually started in 1994, with Warcraft's :Orcs and Humans predecessor of World of Warcraft's first expansion &qu

Week 2

 FROM PHOTO BOOTHS TO MOBILE PHONES. Everyone has seen red booths on the streets in a form of a rectangular parallelepiped with payphone inside. A telephone booth, telephone kiosk, telephone call box, public call box, or whatever you may call was an essential monument to the history of the telephone and currently is just a tourist attraction or somewhere to shelter from the cold. Why did they become useless you may ask and the answer is quite simple- because of the rise of mobile phones. There's rarely going to be any need for a coin-operated telephone when you have one in your pocket.   Where it all started.  In 1889, William Gray constructed the first phone booth in a bank in Connecticut. Many people are still convinced that England was the home of the phone booth, however, they were introduced in London in 1903. The distinction between the model of Gray and its predecessors was that until after the end of the call, callers had to wait to pay. By 1902, payphones had gained such p

Week 1

 THREE IT FAILURES      Some of you heard about unfinished complaints from users to their mobile phones and I will try to discuss one of the main highlights from recent events. Samsung Galaxy Note 7 people who have not heard about it was officially released on 19 August 2016 and it was the first mobile device with C-Type USB connector. People loved that phone, for its' beauty and capabilities, the quality and construction "were praised". Of course the price was high due to its' "new level" hardware, but that was not the main issue with that. On 2 September 2016, first informal announcement about Galaxy Note 7's batteries, which generated excessive heat lead phones to fire. Undoubtedly, the stock of Samsung company plunged, but the consequences were inadmissible. The company itself was not typically associated with low-cost, low-quality components. Moreover, Samsung was supplier for Apple's Iphone and after that loyalists were surprised.      On the 7