IS 215 Class Blog

The future if IT promises to be an interesting one. Technology is rapidly expanding and very little can be done to slow its growth. In my ...

Eastern Michigan University seems to be the only college not going up on their tuition fees. Michigan State, U of M, Saginaw Valley etc. ar...

When we talk about singularity in class we saw a dividing line. I notice how a couple people say this is good for society while others felt ...

Ethics is a word we as people use to decide what is right and what is wrong. Yet, we cannot explain what being ethical means only because ev...

I cannot believe how fast the semester has gone by! I literally walked into this class not knowing a thing about information systems and now...

The information technology develops so faster that many experts even the common people feel afraid and worry that one day the computer will ...

In the last two weeks of class, we've been learning with a different approach: case studies. Case studies are a great way to approach a...

In the beginning I really didn't know what to expect from this course. I don't know that much about computers in general. I thought ...

As a benchmark for the importance of reverse engineering the brain, and the time needed to do it, we discussed how quickly the human genome ...

Well this is my final blog of the class, I never thought it would end lol. At first when I heard that we had to do all these blogs I was sa...

When I think about our little heated discussion that we had the day in class about things like the future and what it had in store for us te...

Is the Singularity really coming and how will it affect us? These are two unanswerable questions so far, unfortunately. Let's assume t...

I have found the case studies to be very interesting. There are things that I didn't know before reading them. I really liked the one ab...

These three words; integrity, commitment, and truth I believe play a large role in ethics. I believe that all people should be ethical, not ...

Webster defines technology as " The discipline dealing with the art or science of applying scientific knowledge to solve practical prob...

One of the questions asked in class Tuesday was "why be moral"? Well, to answer this question, it would take well over 100 years t...

According to Thomas Friedman, the Dell Theory of Conflict Prevention is a theory he presented in his book The World Is Flat . The theory sti...

I have never had or been apart of a blog before and I thought it would only be appropriate to blog about my experience. I always looked at ...

Over the past few discussions in class, the idea of accountability and data collection has been brought up several times. While the collecti...

Recently in class we discussed the issue of privacy. Do we have a right to privacy or is it something we must be willing to forfeit for the ...

While in class there was a discussion on how everything is starting to be electronic. Weather you're shopping, checking your bank state...

The idea of having a computer chip embedded into your brain will probably scare you at first, but take a look at the pros and cons before yo...

With the end of the semester upon us, I suddenly realized that I was quite a bit behind on my blogging for Dr. Drake's class. Partly due...

So for this final blog, I had to think about what I was really interested in and wanted to write about. I decided to go with the topic of th...

The in class discussion today left me with much to consider. The implications of brain chip implants? I am dubious about any type of invas...

In class on Thursday we discussed the idea of implanting a brain chip that will increase your intelligence. After some research on this topi...

For my final Blog Post, I wanted to talk about how technology is being used in my field because it is an area I feel most people know nothin...

In class on Tuesday we discussed the implications of incorrect data collection and I brought up the example of The United Kingdom National D...

The last few class periods have been full of discussion based on case studies and analysis that Dr. Drake issued to us. These cases created...

The new iPad went on sale the other day and Apple can not keep up with the orders that are coming in. I think Apple was smart and to let A...

On Tuesday one of the last subjects we discussed was Precautionary and Proactionary. More often than not Proactionary people and thinkers c...

Seen on the news today that the new Samsung 3D TV may be harmful. And my question is, is technology helping or harming us? The news repor...

Well this is new, nearly 800,000 households have dropped their cable company. Don't worry though, because cable companies still have abo...

Well were finally here. We've made it to the end of the semester and with that said, I would like to talk briefly about this semester in...

There have been many advances in technology for the retail industry. Due to all of the advances, the National Retail Federation created an o...

In class today we looked at what the future could hold for technological advances and many people have very different opinions on thi...

One thing that we talked about in class on Monday was whether or not certain things should be private. I, personally, think that to some ext...

A topic that was discussed in class not too long ago was offshoring. This is a type of outsourcing, it is the relocation of an organizatio...

Everyone likes to get things for free, and free computer applications and software are no exception. So, what sorts of computer application...