Week 10
It was my presentation week. I presented on Marshell Berman's "Modernity: the experience of space and time".

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There will always be contradictions. I used the growth of cartoons to animations that human now experience modernity. Cartoons started with only moving visuals on our television screen, as time past, sound are add on and visuals are improved. Until today, cartoons are almost being replaced with animations because of its good quality where the modern people preferred.

According to Berman, to live in modernity, is to live with contradiction. There will not be a any one-sided; when there is benefit, disadvantage will come with it. Humans will tends to think more of their own personal benefits which they had already predicted that contradictions do need to happen.

Week 11
Economics, ownership and culture of information

Copyleft was indeed a smart act in the copyright law. I understand the benefit one will ensure from its master piece but copyleft had able their master piece to go beyond their expectation.





The creator of a software is considered a genious, but what if they are others who re-write his software and came out with better version of it? The copyright law will protect the rights of the original creator but copyleft had enable his software to achieve better performance with the help of others. There are many people out there might able to help us and make it better but because of us worried to much about our individual benefits, we do not dare to take the next step and allow others to help improve ourselves.