Blog assignment #2: Will we be known?

I can make it easy for myself and say that there will be no more humans 1000 years from now. A lot of peoples think that humanity relative soon will be destroyed by diseases, wars, technical development (as artificial intelligence) or by climatic changes.

We have in many thousands of years leaned on our ability to evolve into what we are best suited for. But that time is over, I think. From now we are forced to use our brains to fit in and survive. Our technical knowledge will be our perdition or our survival, however we will not stand long without develop and usage when we live as we does today.

To know our history is important but it is irrelevant if there are no ones alive to read about us. According to the current storage mediums, like CD-ROM and hard drive, and their short lifespan. Information will always be copied into newer mediums, and with the electronic file systems we have on our computers there will not be difficulties to transform a text file from an older computer to a newer one.

/Anton

Video game addiction

My knowledge of video games is more or less restricted. I have never come in contact with the heavier games like World of Warcraft, Conan and CS (counter strike). The type of games that are closest to me are sport games, I don’t know how many hours I’ve wasted on the ice hockey game NHL. I guess that’s some kind of addiction.

It doesn’t matter how you look at it, it will always be a problem. However, if you can be able to “handle the addiction” there is a lot to learn from it I think. I’ve some friends that played a lot back in the days. One friend was forced to quit high school because his addictions to the game counter strike. But when I ask him if he have some regrets from it he says that it wasn’t just bad for him, he made some new contacts and most important, he learned English very well.

The development in video games goes forward and the means of communication becomes better and better. Today you can have a lot of friends to play with and you don’t even have to meet them eye to eye. This is and will be a major problem, especially for the younger ones. Humans need to be social and get together with other people.


//Anton Möller

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