This class was not what I was expecting at all. I was expecting a class where I would sit down and learn about the history of technology. I was pleasantly surprised by the way the class was structured and what I got to learn about. I personally do not know a lot about computers or information technology so taking this course was something I was a bit concerend to take since I was not sure what to expect. I found that not only did I learn a lot about the digital past but I also learned about all sorts of software as well as how history has been affected by technology. This course was one I was cautious about taking but now that the semester is over and looking back on it, I am very happy that I took this class.

Today we talked about Two Forms of Compression. One which makes things physically smaller, mp3, and one that effects amplitude, volume. I never really thought about the forms of compression so that was very nice to know what’s going on in my everyday life. I really enjoyed talking about the Imitation Game since it’s a movie I am really wanting to see. I always enjoy talking about things that I am interested in my life outside of the classroom and bringing it in. In truth, I wish that could have been done more.

When we started talking about the range of human hearing I thought that was pretty interesting. The top range is about 20,000 hertz and I could hear not all the way up there but pretty high up. What surpised me was that the higher the hertz got the more it did bother me, but not nearly as much as I thought it would. I actually wasn’t too bothered by it and for some reason, wished I could hear more. After that we talked about Claude Shannon and how he worked with binary and created colored picutres. The way he did that with the ‘yes’ or ‘no’ concept just was amazing to me and really made me understand how binary acutally works. That being said, I still don’t understand it as most others do. The whole idea of disregarding what the information is and instead, you are ‘seeing’ the information is something I hadn’t really thought of before. All in all, this was a great class that made me understand the digital world more.