Lunes, Nobyembre 25, 2013

Reaction Paper - GDAYX, 11/23/13

               The 21st century, The Age of Computers, The Technological Era, The Techno-savvy Generation; these are only but a few of the nicknames we have come up for the modern day. At present, our world revolves over the concept of technology; computers, gizmos, and the internet to be more specific. A vast majority of professions and businesses, if not all, are linked to a computer in one way or another. Computers are nearly omnipresent in our daily lives as well. Whether they may be used for advertising, scientific research, management, playing online games, or for just simply posting a status on Facebook, computers play an undeniably important role in today’s society.
                The GDAYX event held in Xavier School, Greenhills last November 23 gathered business people, budding entrepreneurs, students, and various experts in order to share knowledge primarily focused on using computer technology in one’s business. The speakers discussed the uses and potentials of Google and various Google applications in the fields of business and management. I attended the talks on “Blogs vs Websites”, “Google Analytics”, “Google+ for Business”, and a talk on educating through Google. These talks explained how one can use various applications in Google, such as Gmail, Google Drive, Google Analytics, and Google Maps, for marketing, advertising, or for improving one’s business. They also presented ways on how to take full advantage of the internet, like using blogs or by taking advantage of the search engine in order to attract more customers. A speaker also presented the various projects on education started by Google such as the Google Glass (a pair of eyeglasses with a built-in computer), Project Loon (a mobile Wi-Fi hotspot flown by balloons), and the integration of Google applications in the learning system of different schools.
                The dawn of advanced technology has certainly influenced modern day society. Almost everyone has a gadget; it may be a smart phone, a tablet computer, or any other high-tech gizmo. We use them to keep in touch with friends through calls, texts, and social networking sites, we install various applications in our smart phones for our entertainment and our utility, and we use them to make grueling tasks like document making easier and faster. The GDAYX event showed only a small portion of the near endless number of applications and software in the internet available for use at a whim. Not only Google has applications that people can use, there are millions upon millions of other sites with applications that are closely similar to those offered by others. The event also got me thinking, with all of these options on software and hardware, which device is the best? Which one is the perfect program? Which should I choose?

                In my opinion, there is no perfect program nor is there a perfect device. Nothing can satisfy everyone’s wants and needs. There is an old saying that goes, “the tools do not matter, but it is how you use the tools that matters more.” Simply put, all these modern-age technologies are merely just tools for our use and there is no perfect tool that can satisfy everyone’s needs. So, which device or program should you pick? The answer to the question comes from a speaker at the event, he said: “pick the one that suites you best, the one that solves your needs and the one that you are most comfortable with using, because what matters at the end is how you use the application” (non-verbatim). In our world where almost everything is possible with a click of a button, we should always remember that only our own personal efforts, not computers, can provide us with the happiness we constantly seek for.

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