Class 03 | Assignment: Reading Response
The Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace by John Perry Barlow
The Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace by John Perry Barlow was written in 1996, more than 20 years ago. I doubt that his point of views on the subject matter in regard of regulations of the cyberworld remained the same.
His writing claimed that the world of the internet does not have any physical presence in the real world therefore no government nor state have authority to impose any jurisdictions on what is happening in the cyberspace. Although, I must say I agree to some of his statement to a certain degree, but overall I don’t entirely agree with his writing and my reasons are as follow:
“Your legal concepts of property, expression, identity, movement, and context do not apply to us. they are all based on matter, and there is no matter here.”
1. Internet do have tangible and physical presence. For example, routers, cables, deep sea fiber optics(maybe not 20 years ago), and servers.
2. Internet require human to maintain and operate certain tasks. For example, setting up the systems and maintenance so it does not break down.
“We are creating a world that all may enter without privilege or prejudice accorded by race, economic power, military force, or station of birth”
“We are creating a world where anyone, anywhere may express his or her beliefs, no matter how singular, without fear of being coerced into silence or conformity”
3. There should be some law to protect ourselves from hackers and especially abuses online. Everyone is not tech-savy. Different levels of censorships should be imposed on the cyberworld. For instance, young kids and teenagers behind closed doors should have some kind of protection against bullies and abuses because just like Barlow stated, cyberworldis a place where parents are unfamiliar and that “anyone may express his or her beliefs, no matter how singular, without fear of being coerced into silence or conformity.” this statement easily backfired when kids kill themselves due to stress.
A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace by John Perry Barlow.
Amusing ourselves to death, Chapter 1 - The Medium is the Metaphor by Neil Postman
The first chapter of The Medium is the Metaphor by Neil Postman discussed about the concept of several mediums human has created like television, clock, or eyeglasses.
Newspaper was used to deliver news before the creation of television. Postman stated that the birth of television, humans had created physical expressions for the content through the people who read the news and that if you look good you are more likely to get the job in front of the camera, be the face of the content. As a result, television, the man-made technology has a power to take control of the culture and what’s being delivered. Just like facebook holds the power nowadays. Facebook drives todays culture in nearly all aspects of our lives. It can favor one particular kind of content and suddenly its trendy and eventually became a culture.
Class 03 | Assignment: HTML Javascript DOM | CSS Styling
As I was doing my homework this week, I came across this problem several times [screenshot below]. According, to Stack Overflow it’s an issue of the port: 3000 is still running and that I might not close the terminal properly. However, I am sure I did do all these commands listed below in the terminal:
- ctrl + c
- exit
- as well as restart the computer
This problem still came up from time to time. I found that after I left it for a few hours and returned, the server works fine and I did not change the code too.
After I finally got the ‘POST’ and ‘GET’ HTML form to work, I added some CSS styling to it. The page still got a lot of work to do though. But, I’m very happy with my progress so far since this is the first time I’ve really dived into HTML & CSS. (ICM last semester didn’t really count). Tutorials from Codacademy was quite helpful.
The Button "ENTER" just don't wanna move to the center....whyyyy?
