Dietmar Dahmen

I found our guest speaker, Dietmar Dahmen, informative and entertaining. I wasn't sure what to expect when I came to class. I thought there would be another boring, monotone guest speaker, like I have encountered in many of my classes. I was able to relate to the information he presented because it was about the present, my generation. The facts he reported really caught my attention. For example, it took a long time for people to accept television, thirteen years, but it only took people four years to take to internet.Technology has really changed how the world works. A girl mentioned in class, when Dahman was lecturing about apps, that people don't go on the internet to find directions anymore, they just use their GPS app on their phone. I rely on my phone's GPS a whole lot. I use the GPS on my phone to guide me everywhere, especially because I am not from San Jose. Sometimes I think of different scenarios where my phone dies. For example, like how would be stranded somewhere with a flat tire and no one would be able to find me because I have no phone to contact anyone. Another thing he said that stuck out to me was how everything gets old fast because people are constantly updating. That is very true and it sucks that it is true. Overall, he gave me a lot of insightful information to help me navigate through 2013 and more years, as our society advances, to come.

advertisements: excites, disgusts, thoughts?

When I think of advertising, I think of all the annoying commercials and ads being thrown my way at every turn. For my philosophy class in high school, we watched a movie called "The Truman Show", and my teacher pointed out how the actors had to incorporate advertisements into the show itself since it was an on going "real-life" story. That is when I realized, advertising is pretty cool. Sometimes people do not even realize they are being sucked into an advertisement. After that day, I started to notice advertisements in everything; for example, a bag of Doritos being eaten by a main character in a movie, that is some sly advertising. I also find it very interesting that people make so much money off of advertisements. A big chunk of profits made are due to the fact that companies advertise themselves well. So now, when I see a commercial or the same ads posted at every street corner, it doesn't annoy me as much anymore.