Welcome to my new blog about the technology and media use in the future. This time I’m going to discuss the prospects about how technology is going to develop itself in the near future. For those of who think that technology is already far and for those who have difficulty to stay up-to-date with all new devices in the year 2010, the future is going to be hard. For those who are into new devices and who like technological developments, the future is going to be exciting and interesting. Microsoft is trying to develop the newest things and they are coming up with this so called “skinput”.
Within a few years it is possible to play games like Tetris with the aid of your own hands, just by touching the top of your fingers in stead of using a keyboard or a controller. Imagine that you try to call someone just by typing in the phone number on your hand. It sounds weird and unimaginable, but it is going to be the future. See the first video below for more clarity.
Or children, maybe even adults if they want to, can put together “moving puzzles”. In stead of a puzzle with a nice picture, Microsoft is coming up with pieces of videos which are going to be the puzzle pieces. Microsoft is developing kinds of interfaces which are probably going to replace old-fashioned devices. For example an interface for choosing a menu in a restaurant and with the same interface it is even possible to pay the bill. Just by laying down your credit card on the interface. You can decide how much you want to tip the restaurant on a touch screen and by picking up the credit card you just have paid. Or no more annoyance with cables when you want to upload your pictures from your camera to a computer. You can just lay down the camera on the interface and within seconds your photos appear at the interface. With the aid of the same interface it is possible to edit the photos by making them bigger or smaller with your hands. This all probably sounds unimaginable and weird, but you can see what I try to make clear in the second video.
To complete the set, the third video will give a more future perspective about what is going to be possible in the year 2019. I hope you all are slightly into technological developments, because the future is going to be very interesting. Please leave a comment and let me know what you think about these prospects.
donderdag 20 mei 2010
woensdag 19 mei 2010
USA against nuclear Iran
In this blog I would like to show you a form of advertising which I think is very impressive and striking. In one of my previous blogs I discussed the fact that the Dutch government has positioned big, live billboards in Amsterdam and Rotterdam to reduce aggression towards public service employees. In this blog I will also discuss media use by the government or better indicated as media use by a country.
My parents went to New York last week and as you all know, New York is the place were advertising is playing a major role in the daily life. Since my dad knows that I’m interested in advertising and media use, he took this picture of a billboard in the centre of New York.
The man on the picture is Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the president of Iran. He is the world’s leading state sponsor of terrorism. He flouts international law by developing a nuclear weapon. America is against nuclear Iran and America thinks that this should concern every American citizen. It is unacceptable for them that Iran is trying to develop a nuclear weapon. It could be very dangerous for the world, but especially for America and probably also for the West when Iran is in possession of a nuclear weapon. A nuclear Iran is a danger to world peace.
In my opinion it is very clever from the USA to position these billboards in all major American cities. This is probably one of the best manners to inform the public about the nature of the Iranian regime, their intention to develop a nuclear weapon and the role that Iran is playing in terrorism. Besides that, the government or America as a country makes other countries aware of the fact that Iran is trying to develop a nuclear weapon. Since there are thousands of tourist every day and they all go back to their countries with the knowledge that Iran is engaged in nuclear weapons. By placing these huge billboards with the striking appearance in big cities as New York, Iran’s plans are within short time a worldwide discussion topic. Better said, the USA is trying to create nationally and internationally awareness of Iran’s plans.
On the billboard is a website mentioned, so the billboard is to reach the attention of the people and to persuade them to go to their website. At uani.com people can protest against nuclear Iran, like the abbreviation UANI (United Against Nuclear Iran) actually says.
This blog is less based on the actual media use of America, but more on the UANI campaign. Because this campaign is a current form of media use with an interesting topic I had to make a blog about it. I hope you liked reading it en hopefully you will also read my next blogs.
My parents went to New York last week and as you all know, New York is the place were advertising is playing a major role in the daily life. Since my dad knows that I’m interested in advertising and media use, he took this picture of a billboard in the centre of New York.
The man on the picture is Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the president of Iran. He is the world’s leading state sponsor of terrorism. He flouts international law by developing a nuclear weapon. America is against nuclear Iran and America thinks that this should concern every American citizen. It is unacceptable for them that Iran is trying to develop a nuclear weapon. It could be very dangerous for the world, but especially for America and probably also for the West when Iran is in possession of a nuclear weapon. A nuclear Iran is a danger to world peace.
In my opinion it is very clever from the USA to position these billboards in all major American cities. This is probably one of the best manners to inform the public about the nature of the Iranian regime, their intention to develop a nuclear weapon and the role that Iran is playing in terrorism. Besides that, the government or America as a country makes other countries aware of the fact that Iran is trying to develop a nuclear weapon. Since there are thousands of tourist every day and they all go back to their countries with the knowledge that Iran is engaged in nuclear weapons. By placing these huge billboards with the striking appearance in big cities as New York, Iran’s plans are within short time a worldwide discussion topic. Better said, the USA is trying to create nationally and internationally awareness of Iran’s plans.
On the billboard is a website mentioned, so the billboard is to reach the attention of the people and to persuade them to go to their website. At uani.com people can protest against nuclear Iran, like the abbreviation UANI (United Against Nuclear Iran) actually says.
This blog is less based on the actual media use of America, but more on the UANI campaign. Because this campaign is a current form of media use with an interesting topic I had to make a blog about it. I hope you liked reading it en hopefully you will also read my next blogs.
maandag 10 mei 2010
Payment system in a social networksite
Welcome to my new blog! I also will pay attention in this blog to a new “phenomenon” in Holland, just like I did in my previous blog. In Holland we have a popular social networksite, called Hyves. Just to keep in touch with friends and to “find” old friends, like Facebook for instance. This site has recently added a payment system to transfer money to friends or to do micro payments to organizations.
They linked an application for a mobile phone to the site to make it possible. This application, called “My Order”, makes it possible to pay a drink in your favourite bar or to pay a pizza for example. I don’t know if this possibility is useful and if this is what all Hyves users were waiting for, but time will tell. Hyves guarantees that all payments will securely be processed. It is possible to guarantee this, because they make use of a digital wallet (MiniTix), developed by a Dutch bank (Rabobank). All Hyves users can make use of this payment system now, even though if they aren’t registered at MiniTix. They do not even have to have an account at the Rabobank. Users only have to make sure that their mobile phone number is linked to the payment system and that they have to deposit money on their Hyves account. This account does have a limit for people who want to deposit a lot of money. MiniTix does have a function which ensures that people have the possibility to deposit money automatically from their bank account to their Hyves account when their digital wallet is empty. The video below shows how the payment system works.
It is intended that Hyves users can do transactions to at least 30 percent of the catering establishments in the beginning of next year. Until today, users can only do transactions at 13 cinema’s and dozens of restaurants in 21 cities. Hyves in general is still very popular as evidenced by the growing numbers of members. There are almost ten million registered members of which nine million Dutch.
My doubts about the system
The future will tell us how popular Hyves’ payment system is going to be, but in my opinion there are quite a few snags to this innovative social payment system. Since (young) children aren’t responsible enough to “work” with this kind of systems. There are already too much kids with enormous mobile phone bills. I think this says enough about how kids think about money in general and about how they deal with things where they are simply not responsible enough for. Just because they don’t think about the consequences. It is simply incalculable for them and they shouldn’t even think about such matters. Parents cannot control their children all day long so they have plenty of time to figure out how they can use the payment system. The general conditions say that kids under 18 can’t use their system, but they can just indicate that they are above 18. Who is going to control if everybody who is using the system is 18 or older? I don’t know. So as you can conclude, in my opinion it is to “dangerous”, since almost all children do have a Hyves account, but I hope that Hyves has discussed all possible scenario’s before they implemented this system. Time will tell!
Please leave a comment and let me know what you think about this situation.
They linked an application for a mobile phone to the site to make it possible. This application, called “My Order”, makes it possible to pay a drink in your favourite bar or to pay a pizza for example. I don’t know if this possibility is useful and if this is what all Hyves users were waiting for, but time will tell. Hyves guarantees that all payments will securely be processed. It is possible to guarantee this, because they make use of a digital wallet (MiniTix), developed by a Dutch bank (Rabobank). All Hyves users can make use of this payment system now, even though if they aren’t registered at MiniTix. They do not even have to have an account at the Rabobank. Users only have to make sure that their mobile phone number is linked to the payment system and that they have to deposit money on their Hyves account. This account does have a limit for people who want to deposit a lot of money. MiniTix does have a function which ensures that people have the possibility to deposit money automatically from their bank account to their Hyves account when their digital wallet is empty. The video below shows how the payment system works.
It is intended that Hyves users can do transactions to at least 30 percent of the catering establishments in the beginning of next year. Until today, users can only do transactions at 13 cinema’s and dozens of restaurants in 21 cities. Hyves in general is still very popular as evidenced by the growing numbers of members. There are almost ten million registered members of which nine million Dutch.
My doubts about the system
The future will tell us how popular Hyves’ payment system is going to be, but in my opinion there are quite a few snags to this innovative social payment system. Since (young) children aren’t responsible enough to “work” with this kind of systems. There are already too much kids with enormous mobile phone bills. I think this says enough about how kids think about money in general and about how they deal with things where they are simply not responsible enough for. Just because they don’t think about the consequences. It is simply incalculable for them and they shouldn’t even think about such matters. Parents cannot control their children all day long so they have plenty of time to figure out how they can use the payment system. The general conditions say that kids under 18 can’t use their system, but they can just indicate that they are above 18. Who is going to control if everybody who is using the system is 18 or older? I don’t know. So as you can conclude, in my opinion it is to “dangerous”, since almost all children do have a Hyves account, but I hope that Hyves has discussed all possible scenario’s before they implemented this system. Time will tell!
Please leave a comment and let me know what you think about this situation.
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