A Presentation in the Works....

Well, like I said, it's that time of the quarter, LOL.

Indeed, projects and presentations are in the works everywhere and deadlines are fast approaching.

I am part of a group of 7 students working on a class presentation that we have been asked to summarize our portion of here in our blogs by our professor, Andrew Fry. I'm not going to give it all away, but I'm excited to share a bit of what I've personally got in the works.

My group is reading a book, World Without Secrets: Business, Crime and Privacy in the Age of Ubiquitous Computing, written by author, Richard Hunter, VP of GartnerG2, a division of Gartner Inc., the worlds largest technology research firm. The book, in a very small nut shell, discusses the effects of the technology based revolution that began decades and decades ago and how it is creating a transparency not known before the power of technology came about. It investigates the pros and cons of this phenomena from Hunters valued prospective.

Our group of 7 has chosen to divide the contents of this book so that as much material is presented as possible without overwhelming any one persons work load. With 14 chapters, each group member simply chose 2 chapters to cover.

I am excited and enthusiastic about the two chapters I will be presenting to the class, chapter 6 which is titled Software Without Secrets and chapter 7 titled The Rise of the Mentat. Chapter 6 gives an in depth wealth of insight into Hunters few of the "Open Source Movement" and his take on how it affected business and the marketing and growth directions of software. Hunter was actually a sceptic of the movement initially, so it was interesting to learn of his opinions of how successful open source code actually was and is. Chapter 7 is interesting as well as it talks of, as it's title might hint, the rise of the Mentat, humans trained and genius enough to act as and perform duties of computers. Hunters prospective on this fascinating rare ability is of course in depth and articulate.

I don't want to say too much more, don't want to ruin it for the actual presentation, but I'm excited and nearly done putting things together. It'll be great to really get to finally put everything together some time in the next two weeks when my group and I make our presentations to our class.

Check out another outline from one of my group members, Oksana.