Week 4 Reflection

This blog will focus on my experiences with both the "blown to bits" assignment and the computer hardware reading assignments. 

The first chapter of the "blown to bits" book gave me further insight into the magnitude of the technological explosion that is currently taking this world by storm. It helped me to appreciate the progress this world has achieved since the dawning of the technological era, but it has also made me wary of the extreme risks involved such rapid advancement. It is scary, but also highly fascinating to imagine the technological future of this world.

When it comes to bits/bytes/computer hardware, I learned most of this material either in my high school computer class, or in my sound/recording class (where we learned about binary, memory, as well as how CD's and DVD's work). There were a couple of things that I gleaned from the readings/animations.

1) I had never really seen much of the inside of a personal compter, and the configuration was never really explained to me.

2) In my sound/recording class, we didn't have time to learn how CD-R's, DVD-R's, and CD/DVD-RW's work. I found that information to be quite interesting.

I'm sure there are more things that I could site as things I learned for the first time through this assignment, but these two are probably the most significant.