According to Carlos Dominguez the way in which you become a change agent is by embracing the changes that occur in your life. I think what he means by that is to learn and adapt to what is happening around you. Technology is changing rapidly and we should adapt to that idea. The more that we know about the changes that are happening around us the better understanding we get of what is happening around us. Having the right technology accompanied with the right culture you get a winning company. It doesn't pay off just to have good technology to be successful. If you lack the motivation and dedication then the technology is practically useless. How do you think all this great technology was able to advance so far in only a few decades. It is because people came out with new ideas with the technology they already had, and made it better. Examples of this are everywhere. Originally the first of computers were huge and took so much time just to process simple messages. As time passed people made it smaller, faster, and efficient. This better technology made communication so much better, and the spreading of ideas so much easier.That is what is meant by technology and the right culture making winning companies.
The Web Seminar had three main ideas that it was trying to teach us. One is how quickly things are changing. Social networks such as facebook have skyrocketed in terms of users. In 7 years it went from 0 to 750 million users. That shows how many people are know almost interconnected with each other. Not just facebook but even twitter. These sites are the reason some dictators in the middle east have fallen. People would get together through facebook and spread the word. This has been very common these past years. the second idea is power of the people. As groups we have shown that we can do anything. As i stated before the overthrowing of dictators in the middle east is evidence of that power. The information we put on the internet is for us to control and manipulate. Third idea is that everything is going to be connected. Meaning that everything around us including where we live, refrigerators, desks, kitchen counters, etc. A really awesome commercial was shown where an example of how everything would look like if it where interconnected. There screens everywhere from the kitchen counter, mirror in the bathroom etc. the person was literally texting to someone on the mirror of the bathroom which is incredible. The idea of a house of the future being like that really motivated me to dedicate myself to make a difference in the field of technology.
What impacted me the most about this Web Seminar was the idea of how everything will soon be interconnected. That part of the Seminar is what really impacted me to dedicate myself to learning all i can about technology. I really want to be apart of that future idea and build into it if i can. I think that i could possibly follow into Carlos's footsteps in terms of making technology impact our lives much more then it already has. To the point where we literally can't live without technology. i believe that technology is priceless in terms of how much it benefits us in communication, work load, etc. Technology really impacts our lives greatly since we use almost all the time.
To summarize this the three main points given to me by this seminar have really opened my eyes on how beneficial and attached technology is in our lives. i knew before hand the importance of technology but this has shown much more. The idea of how quick things are changing, power of the people, and everything being interconnected, has really motivated me to continue learning about networking. Carlos Rodriguez is someone i would like to follow, in terms of his ideas, and hi views toward technology. Hopefully this motivation has spread to other people since more people would be more beneficial to succeed in the future. Just like Carlos's
main idea of power of the people. In groups we can do everything.
