I didn’t quite grasp this concept in the beginning of the lecture, however, the idea that we will continue to connect everything to the internet if it will increase capabilities made me understand. The first thing I though of was the app controlled colour bedroom lights, you can program them to turn on, strobe or be a certain colour. The simple concept of light from the sun, to a candle, to a lightbulb and now this! Then I thought lets think larger and smart homes, entire homes that are revolutionised as Things of the Internet. Voice controlled, interactive and connected.
The further I got into this lecture I started thinking, wow, humans could be totally connected to the internet one day and as soon as I said it out loud I realised that we already are! Our thoughts and consciousness is recorded phones and smart watched, the amount of steps we take in a day. There is an algorithm and sata that knows when we happy, depressed. Check out this Forbes article about Target knowing a teenager was pregnant before her father did.
Imagine if all your data over your life was collected from what you watch, what you write and what you read to create your own artificial intelligence that acted independently. It’s a super scary hypothetical but honestly one day I don’t think it will be that far fetched.
LAURA 
This is a super interesting read and I really like your remediation. You spoke about revolutionising our homes with the internet of things which reminded me of a women (I can’t remember her name) who’s come up on my Tiktok fyp who has a chip in her hand that connects to the internet which allows her to unlock her home. The idea that we could one day upload our entire existence seems very sci-fi and futuristic but honestly, I don’t think we’re that far away from early prototypes of that existing
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I thought the exact same thing from the lecture, how our homes can become smart homes! It is so interesting to see where technology is heading, i really like your thoughts on this topic!
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Hey Laura, I liked reading your blog post for this week. It poses a lot of questions and makes you think of the future for technology in our society. I wrote about a similar thing, how we are dependant and does this mean we will rely on and develop technology to the point, could it ever be sentient? Will Alexa ever say no if we ask her to read us the schedule for the day? We already do so much and publish so much information to the internet, is it at the point of no return? Overall its a very existential topic to think about but integral to think about how we are connected to the internet.
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Hey Laura,
I really like the way you’ve made this remediation, I feel it is very fitting to the topic and well presented to get the message across and it has really stuck with me. It is quite scary to think of how much of our data collected already, I can’t even imagine how much more intense it will become in the future. I used my remediation for this week to ask my Google Home if it knew what an IoT was, but now all I can think about is the data it is constantly collected and possibly, but hopefully not storing, due to it’s positioning in the middle of my house and the conversations it has the possibility of recording.
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