What More I'd Like to Learn

I would like to learn how to edit videos, but it's a very low priority in my life right now. Actually, any additional learning on computer-related doings is at a pretty low priority.

I also would like to know how to use Photoshop for "professional" photo editing. I can do basic things and make pictures look considerably better than they did before, but there are little tricks and such that really make a photo, and I would like to learn those tricks.

I wouldn't mind knowing CSS or some other advanced language for the web. Actionscript for Flash would be really sweet, too, since I can do a lot of the graphical stuff in Flash (or at least I used to be able to. I haven't had time to mess around in it in a while).

Basically, I know way more than I need to at this point for my life, and I'm satisfied where I'm at, though I'm sure I will find something that sparks my interest and causes me to research and learn more about some other aspect of computers.

Viral Videos

Viral Videos are countless in numbers. What they are, essentially, are videos that gain widespread popularity through the inter connectivity that the web offers nowadays. With high speed Internet and blogs and sites like youtube.com, viral videos have become the new email greeting cards. I often get links to funny or interesting videos on the web from friends -- no longer those obsolete FWDed msgs, but something with multimedia pizzazz.

So many of my friends know and joke in real life about the videos (viral videos at that) that we have all seen. Some that I can think of right away are the Noma Noma dancer, Super Mario Twins Flash video, and the laughing kitty.

Viral Videos have made internet celebrities, caused huge controversies, gotten people fired (the "Mickey Mouse Orgy" at France's Disneyland), disrupted, and changed lives. With the technology to upload something straight from your cell phone to an online host, video blogging and viral videos spread like wildfire and the debate about them is currently raging, especially with elections and such going on.

Computers of the Future

I have read a lot of articles in the past duscussing the future of computers.

There have been a lot of exciting concepts.

One of the most interesting ones I've read about (and this was a while ago) was bio-computers. They are searching and searching trying to make a living computer -- since living things are able to transmit and store data more quickly and efficiently. It is very interesting to read about.

Another cool concept that I have heard about more recently is something from a guy that works at Google and it's a screen that you touch to use the computer. Now, they have touch screens, but this is different. You can do everything you normally do on a computer, not just select buttons. The interface is desinged to give you more freedom than a mouse, pad, or any other input device has ever given you. Panning, zooming, and switching programs were all done with ease by the demonstrator in the movie I watched on the news. I can't find a link now.

There is talk that in the near future we won't have to wait for our systems to boot up. That'd be nice.

Computers already go beyond what most people use them for, but all of the advances are exciting and I can't wait to see what comes out next!