It's Superman Fast Internet

The Government is planning on giving us all SUPER fast CRAZY speed internet in like 8 years! Bummer its such a long ways away. BUT, imagine we got this super fast crazy speed internet tomorrow! WOO HOO! Now what? Discuss the implications for:

a) Your School

b) Your Home

c) Nationally

To give you an example, you could download a regular 5MB mp3 in about 3 seconds, or download a 10 minute YOUTUBE clip in 10 seconds.

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Take a side!

Downloading music and software for free...is it bad? Is it ethically right? It's ok as long as you use it only for your self? Choose your side and defend your argument while referencing to copyright and ethical issues. (1/2 page)

Buy me a PC!

John is an average Aussie bloke who is interested in purchasing a PC for his family. Mary his wife loves to sit on Facebook chatting to all her old High School friends. She occasionally checks her email and looks through some photos. Lilly their daughter tends to play lots of music, and would love the ability to stream the music to her room somehow so it wont disturb the rest of the house. And then there is the son Sam - a mad apple kid! He loves everything Apple, and is trying to convince his dad to by an Apple computer. Sam likes to twiddle around on Photoshop, he checks his emails and likes to take thousands of digital photographs.

Given that John doesn't earn lots of money, he is having a hard time justifying why he would purchase a Mac when a PC is so much cheaper.

Discuss 5 positives and negatives for purchasing a PC, and discuss 5 positives and negatives for purchasing a Mac. John will then use this information to make his final decision. (1 page)

Information Publication

Newspaper and TV shows have been our main source of news for many years. Discuss how the internet, mobile computing and latest trends in information publication (blogs, wikis, twitter) will have an effect on these 'older' technologies. (1/2 page)

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