Ergonomics (one off post, Just beacuse i feel like it lol)

I Thought, as i have a study period, that ill write another blog article. I also realised id been promising a blog, for a long time on ergonomics. Ergonomics, according to wikipedia, is the application of scientific information concerning humans to the design of objects, systems and environment for human use. Get it? If you didnt, basically its when man uses machine to enhance their performance, from anything to integrated weapons, to computer chips in the brain. So why have i taken an interest in this? Well some of you may have seen the James Bond film, Die Another Day, One of my personal favourites. There is a scene towards the end of the film where the Villain picks up and puts on a glove, that enables him to shock anyone that he touches. This is one such example of what simple ergonomics is. The Mergance of man and machine. However, what im interested in is not for human demise, but for the greater good. I read somewhere, cant quite remember where though, that some scientists growing were limbs on Mice? nothing new? But with a difference, they were using robots and machinery to recreate from scratch, animal limbs. So effectivly creating life from one simple cell, from the process of cloning and grafting. Obviously there is a question of ethics here. Some believe that the hunman race wil fast become a race of enhanced beings, where babies can be effectively made to order. Fancy an athlete? the Superchip 1000 can enhance your child to make him run faster than any olympic athlete!. Mabye an advert of the future. At the moment i havent heard, apart from films and computergames any sign of chips influencing the brain, perhaps due to the completxity of it all, but no doubt this is the next step and the evolution of what ergonomics is today.
Anyway i found this all interesting, and thought id persue my interests, and writer an article, after one of my school teachers assemblies on the subject of "love to learn". Anyway, if you have taken the time to read a article of personal interest to me, and you like what you see, make sure you leave a comment, tell me your feelings. Sweet.

The Game of Life........

Hello again,
I just thought i'd write down my thoughts about some thing that interested me. Today, i was in a contemplative mood when I was on the bus today, just gazing out of the window with my MP3 in, wondering where i want to be in the future. I was just thinking of various different things i could be doing with my life in the future. Banking?....Boring, Teacher?.....Too many bratty kids, What about an stock market job?....24Hr day, No play. So what can i do with my life? Then came a revelation, i started to think about a game that i used to play, called StarWars Galaxies (with expansion pack). What a Geek, i know, but i really loved it, Why?. In this massive online world, i existed not as Average Joe from Ilford, but CARBONATOR, A ruthless Bounty Hunter from the criminal underworld of Nar Shadaa. I was thinking once again.... That person is me? i have created him? he is modeled in my Image and plays by my rules, even if he is only an online creation. But its funny how noone creates Joe Blog's, a human from London, Earth who walks around with a kebab instead of a blaster rifle.
But the crunch is? This game, for me, got addictive, beacuse i started to become someone, notorious within this galaxy. beacuse of my hunts, I had an online Bank with around 10,000,000 republic credits in (which is a heck of a lot). Similar things have been said from players of games such as the world of warcraft etc. Who start to love their online identities. People seem to become facinated by themselfs, in online gaming worlds in which they know they will never be in, but yet provide some joy i knowing they are someone. To cut a long story short i think that the market for online gaming will become popular, quickly. Now as a Media studies styden i realise that a lot of this is comercialised and about making money but regardless, It may end up more popular than anything we have ever seen before.

I am predicting a Playstation 3 for christmas, and critics have rated the online community already as one of the best features of the system. I Will investigate this further if my prediction comes true. I will speak about the online Gaming side of things which is what i have decided to focus my Blog on. I also want to post a blog about Ergonomics which will come along shortly as a kindof one off blog for anyone who's interested.

Tell me your thoughts on my articles please, comments much apreciated.....

Recent Home Study task (13 December 2007)

Coded Vision- Future/Fantasy


Hello Again,
Once again ill say sorry for not having this task up and sorry to the others of you that are fans of my blog for not having a more recent Post. However i will keep you up to date and intend (Homework task or not) to have update the Blog with a new article every ten days.
Thanks ...........Joe

My Teacher put this interesting article on the General blog a few days ago.... I have edited it down to about 300 words so if it seems some Bits are missing then thats probably why!

The Article.......

It is my honor to appear before you today to discuss the future of the World Wide Web. I would like to offer some of my experience of having designed the original foundations of the Web, what I've learned from watching it grow, and some of the exciting and challenging developments I see in the future of the Web. Though I was privileged to lead the effort that gave rise to the Web in the mid-1990s, it has long passed the point of being something designed by a single person or even a single organization. From its beginning, it is a medium that has been created and sustained by the cooperative efforts of people all over the world.
The testimony I offer here today is purely my own opinion and does not necessarily reflect the views of the World Wide Web Consortium or any of its Members. The special care we extend to the World Wide Web comes from a long tradition that democracies have of protecting their vital communications channels. (So thus the internet is a communication device?)We try as best we can to nurture and protect our information networks because they stand at the core of our economies, our democracies, and our cultural and personal lives. I am gratified that the United States and many other democracies around the world have taken up this challenge.


Joe's Thoughts = So to cut a long story short would i be wrong in saying the Internet is Alive ? To care and sustain it? To feed and nurture it? Sounds like the Internet is more than just a way of simply communicating. It sounds, to me, like it has its own intelegence and it is learning from us and our inputs into it. What interests me is how we can make movies such as the Terminator, where a computer takes over the U.S. military, I-Robot, where a computer that thinks for itself takes over a whole city and finally the daddy of them all, The Matrix, where man and machine are one. Ergonomics (The mergance of man and machine) could be the future so my next post has just found its title.

Much Love........ I Thought id Leave you with a very relevant quick vid
Its Worth Watching..........