2010年9月8日 星期三

wikipedia mean the end of the encyclopedias?

i think that wikipedia doesn't mean the end of the encyclopedias, but no doubt that wikipedia is becoming more important in our world now.

As we know that the encyclopedias, needed somebody to edit, to organize and needed time to publish since there are so many information. As a pack of encyclopedias is very expensive, once people bought one set, they will not want to buy another at a short time, however, nowadays, the information and technologies are changing so fast, many information may not easy to group and collect in a set of books. Besides, due to the limitation of the encyclopedias (human resources/ money/ the size of the books), the encyclopedias may not update as fast as the online wikipedias. Also since the wikipedia allow everyone edit the post, so as more information can be add to the post.

However, it is not to deny the importance of the encyclopedias, as the encyclopedias are much more accurate than the wikipedia. Since the encyclopedias are edit by the worldwide professionals, so the information provided is much more accurate and guarantee, compare to wikipedia, wikipedia is much lack of accuracy. So I think that while we want to check something which need high accuracy (such as chemical/ scientific/ language knowledge, etc.) and not popular, we should check the encyclopedias. If we want something which is more update and interesting and , than we should find wikipedia.

By the way, i think that the user should know how how to define and using the sources while using wikipedia, since everyone can edit it, we can't aviod the wrong information is found. We can find more source to compare and find the information which is closest to the real.

Can't deny that wikipedia's position is keep increasing, but i sure it can't replace the encyclopedias, the user should also keep a clear mind to choose when to use encyclopedias, when to use wikipedia.

Charlie Chaplin's "Modern times"- evaluating the effects of new technologies

I think new technologies such as the industrial machinery, feeding machine and closed circuit cameras shown in the film both have some common benefits, such as time saving, making people's living convenient, and also quite user friendly.

In the "Modern Time", it is obviously the machines are bringing those advantages to the boss, he can earning the money through those devices, however, those technologies are not benefiting the workers. We can see that Chaplin are working in a very tense mood while the time is saving by using the industrial machinery. Besides, while they are promoting the feeding machines, at first it is running smoothly, that really convenient and very user friendly, however once the machine is losing control, it start to bring trouble to people, that really very stupid and even the technician can't fix it, it will spoil people's life.

Nowadays, i think computers and technologies really have a great effect to our life, most of us can not live without computers, computers bring entertainments to our lives, companies using computer to work, helping us earn money, the communication network nearly is built by the computers and technologies. Computers and technologies are really amazing and essential. However, i do also think that we show pay more attentions in the disadvantages they brought. Such as the "modern times" shown, while the technologies become uncontrollable, finally it harms human lives or at last becoming stupid/ Or sometimes the technologies just benefiting particular groups of people.

2010年9月1日 星期三

a new start

I am Wanpy, or just call me 37
The title of the blog is quoted from a song
that is Plain White T's "Welcome to the mystery"
the lyrics which is very meaningful 
" This is the place where the mind can escape
all the problems today will go far far away,
this is the time where no history,
welcome to mystery"
so in this blog
I will share all the stuffs that i think theyre great,
with no time/ ppl / issues limit.
When you read my blog,
put down the subjectivbe mind and bias,
Just enjoy.