The
fist video caught my interest, in that it seemed like something out of science
fiction. It reminded me of a television show
I used to watch called Continuum. In it
was a police woman from the future who used a database of video cameras to
create a 3D image of the crime as it had occurred. However, she had to use a piece of machinery
from the future, plugged into a modern computer to achieve this as our
computers did not have the power to handle all the data, as it scanned the
internet, much like the presenter, to find relevant images or videos two what she was looking for. The program represented in the video was much along these lines. I would like to know how it can handle the amount of data it uses. I would also be interested in how much of the process regarding the image of a cathedral was manual, and how much the computer did automatically. The software regarding how the computer could recognize what the picture entailed, and where the picture is also very interesting to me. In conclusion, I think that kind of program, being open to the public, would be a marvel of modern computer engineering.
The second video was also interesting, but I disagreed with some of it's contents. Firstly the presenter focused on the physical form of the internet where I think the marvel is the information it can hold and the number of hours people spend world wide interacting with it.
