Hyun-Yong Kwon's List: Carol Morgan School - English 10 - Susan Waterworth

• link the virtual world and the real
• smart objects exist in the physical world but have some kind of virtual  counterpart
• a smart object is any physical object that includes a unique identifier that can  track information about the object.
• use for point-of-sale purchases, passport tracking, inventory management,  identification, and similar applications
• how it connects the physical world with the world of information
• can be used to digitally manage physical things, to track them throughout their  lifespan, and to annotate them with descriptions, opinions, instructions,  warranties, tutorials, photographs, and any other kind of contextual information  imaginable
• opening the door to a range of new interfaces
• Taking smart objects a step further, products like Tikitag (http://www.tikitag.com) and Violet’s Mir:ror  (http://www.violet.net) make it easy and fun  to attach scannable stickers to household objects. When the object is placed on  or near a USB scanner attached to a personal computer, the tag is read and the  computer performs whatever actions the user has associated with that particular  tag, like launching a game or other application, or playing a certain music  playlist.
• instead of a box under the desk, a computer may be all the objects on the desk.

  • However, digital information as such may not be able completely replace the real object itself. It is simply information about the object, not the real thing where you could make use of it.
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• iPod Touch

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• computing resources resulting from very large “data farms” — specialized data  centers that host thousands of servers.
• Image editors, word processors, social networking tools
• often free and come with huge amounts of storage space for whatever we wish to  keep there
• Flickr
• Google
• YouTube
• Cloud-based applications do not run on a single computer; instead they are  spread over a distributed cluster, using storage space and computing resources  from many available machines as needed
• Ning, PageFlakes, Facebook, and Voicethread
• Data storage is cheap in these environments — pennies per gigabyte — so cheap  that it is often provided in surprising quantities for free.
• For many institutions, cloud computing offers a cost-effective solution to the  problem of how to provide services, data storage, and computing power to a  growing number of Internet users without investing capital in physical machines  that need to be maintained and upgraded on-site.
• shift in the way we think about how we use software and store our files
• Instead of locking files and software inside a single computer, we are  gradually moving both the products of our work and the tools we use to  accomplish it into the cloud.
• Schools are beginning to take advantage of ready-made applications hosted on a  dynamic, ever-expanding cloud that enable end users to perform tasks that have  traditionally required site licensing, installation, and maintenance of  individual software packages.
• cloud-based applications are being used in schools to provide virtual computers  to students and staff without requiring each person to own the latest laptop or  desktop machine

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