I do. I really love my chocolate crispy and crunchy, so I always keep them in the fridge. Lindt chocolate, Tim Tam, Kit Kat, Rocky road, Caramel slices.....etc.
I cannot stand ooooozy melted chocolate!
Here's something I often bake.
Chocolate and orange muffins!! hmmmmm.......
I am a chocolate loving student of Bachelor of Communication at Griffith Uni on the Gold Coast in Australia, and I am majoring in Media study and Photo journalism.
This blog is actually a part of my 'New Communication Technology' study project, and this week, I have to answer the following questions:
Q) How do we distinguish between old and new communication technologies? Under what circumstances will new communication technologies become old communication technologies?
A) I think a judgment to distinguish what is new or old is highly subjective. However, most people must agree when we say mobile phones, Email, blogs, social networking and Youtube are relatively new communication technologies. Although TVs, radios, landlines and letters still exist in our everyday lives, many people would agree that they are relatively old communication technologies.
Well, how do we distinguish then?
Mobile phones, Email, communications through the internet.............these all appeared in the last two to three decades. So roughly, we must be able to say anything that appeared in the last three decades belong to relatively new communication technologies.
However, to tell the truth, I am not comfortable with the above analogy in simplistec form. That’s why I used the word ‘relatively’ new or old above. Well, how about this instead: every new technology gets old as soon as something newer appears to the world.
I think many people would rather consider that the latest communication technology we can get in the current market is to be called new technology. When we see ‘new’ written down on the ads, we think "ok, this must be somthing new". So basically, manufacturers decide what is new or old, and we are just following. When they say it is new, it is new. Everything else is old. I thought that the iPhone is a pretty new communication device, and I cannot believe it is already iPhone4 has been launched lately. While people blink, Apple have already tried to sneak their hands into our wallets and encouraged us to upgrade the handsets 4 times already! Apple is so dominant in leading the mobile communication market now, and they have so much power to control what and how and when the new technology is to be released. Therefore, when Apple announces that the iPhone4 is the new communication device, many consumers feel like all other mobile phones except for the iPhone4 are old.
Now on the other hand, the latest technologies we can get in the current market can be also considered as old technologies. This is because new inventions are the real newest technologies (not just upgrading to an existing technology or something already released as a product). There is a mad scientist sort of guy called Dr Nakamatsu who claims over 3,000 new inventions in Japan. He already has a patent for a 'wrist-mobile' phone apparently. I don’t know if many people appreciate the idea that we can have a communication device on our wrist just like the old Thunderbird puppets did, but it might be a great idea for a person like me who always can never remember where I left my mobile. If I can put it on my wrist, I wouldn’t lose it. Oh, I should lodge a patent to make it waterproof to allow me to keep it wearing in the shower room, there's an idea! Well, how about it also dispenses M&M chocolate as well???? Anyway, we can say something like this wrist-mobile phone invention is new, and all mobile phones in the current market are already using old technologies. The new invented but not yet controlled by a marketing giant such as Apple is to be called as the real new technology.
What do you think???
Well, this is all for this week.
Cheers,
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