The Next New Thing

We already have a popular site to watch things (YouTube), we already have a popular site to listen to things (Pandora), now we should have a popular site to taste things. We always see delicious foods on tv, books, magazines, etc. but we never really get to taste them. How do we know if that food is good? How do we know if it is bad? We won't really know until we try them for ourselves, and that usually takes time and money (if you have to go out and eat a certain food in a restaurant). To be able to taste things online will be a spectacular thing to do. With the rate that technology is improving, it would not be surprising that they would provide a special tab (clean of course) to put into our mouths and have a popular website that have a huge plethora of food that we can taste. The tab will simulate the food that we choose we want to eat by changing the taste of our saliva temporarily. If people can't afford these special tablets, the website can provide makeshift recipes which taste like a minute at most to prepare, like combining ketchup with mustard to get a 'taste' on how the food will taste like. We already have our sense of sight and hearing stimulated, the next thing that technology should tackle is the sense of taste.

Advice to Baruch College

Baruch College is a great college and it can be made even better in numerous ways. My advice for Baruch is to make interactive chatrooms with advisors, professors, departments, and offices like the Bursar. With these interactive chatrooms, students can talk to the person they need at the comfort of their seat. Also, students may be too busy to go to talk with their advisors about important issues because of work, family issues, etc., so with these chatrooms, students to schedule an appointment with them online and chat with them online. Not only should Baruch make interactive chatrooms with offices, they should be able to do things online, like drop a class and pay for their tuitions by credit card online. This makes the filing process instant and convenient.

Another feature they should add is to have interactive helpers for people who are roaming around the Baruch website. They can provide assistance to find what they need and direct to the appropriate site and person (which should be also be available to talk to online). With today's fast and demanding society, Baruch should make almost everything available online, while providing excellent services to everyone.

Old vs. New

Not a lot of people know this, but there is a various distinction between 'old' media and 'new' media. Old media consists newspapers, magazines, journals, etc. New media consists of blogs,YouTube and amateur videos,wikis, etc. Old media can be described as one-way communication because what we have on there is what we get, in other words it is static. For example, in paper encyclopedias, all of the information that we have from there is what we get, no new information can be added by anyone or yourself until a new edition comes out. However in new media, it is more dynamic and interactive than old media. An example of a new media version of an encyclopedia is Wikipedia, which has information as vast as an encyclopedia, but it keeps building upon itself every day and it is built by the people and yourself.