CP102 Lecture 1: Chapter 1
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Chapter 1: using technology to change the world. Social network tools enable the gathering of people to connect and exchange ideas such as: uprisings in the ukraine organized using facebook. Politicians worldwide have also begun to incorporate social networking as part of their political strategy: obama using facebook and twitter, beppe grillo gaining votes through facebook and twitter. Indian finance minister covered budget on google hangout. An advantage of social media is that others can immediately engage in a two-way conversation. Social networking tools are therefore providing a level of instant connection and information distribution that is reshaping the world. A crisis-mapping tool is a tool that collects information by e-mails, text messages, blog posts, and twitter tweets and then maps them, instantly making information publicly available. Health care: scientific visualization tools, computationally intense modelling software is helping the pace of vaccine production, retinal prosthetics.
