Unit 3 Exploring topcs:GVRL

Research Journal Unit 3 Exploring Topics: Gale Virtual Reference Library

 The topic I chose for unit 3 was the internet.I chose it because not only because I'm a huge fan of the web but also because the internet is the kind of topic that acts as home directory for other topics.Whether it be security,privacy,information,education,and communication.The very idea of the internet sometimes amazes me.I started researching the topic using the Gale Virtual Reference Library found from the Clark website. 

Keywords I found: Web,World wide web,TCP/IP,privacy,network,protocols,digital,copyrights,intellectual property,internet marketing and services,communications,electronic messaging,the cloud,cyberspace,cyber culture,community,social networks.

 

The article that I seemed to enjoy the most was an article about predicting the computer revolution,it was written over 20 years ago,and explained how PC's will become as ubiquitous as the telephone was back in those days,and how mail will compete with e-mail,and how internet chat rooms will have a lot more communication than through the phone.(Even though he probably didn't predict the whole social network aspect)And how using the PC as a gateway into a new virtual world will change the world we see here today.

Source citation

"The Next Computer Revolution." Peled, Abraham. Scientific American 257, no. 4, October 1987, 57, 59, 64. American Decades Primary Sources. Ed. Cynthia Rose. Vol. 9: 1980-1989. Detroit: Gale, 2004. 604-607. Gale Virtual Reference Library. Web. 12 Oct. 2012.

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