I am not a blogger

As you can tell from the medium that you and I are both using, technology has really changed the ways in which all of us communicate and share ideas. This has developed in to a sort of revolution in technology as well as in all other areas of life that can be affected by instant communication to almost every other person on the planet. Thousands of people around the world have grown in to millions in just around twenty years and the visions of just a few people have done all of this. For people like us, the college student, it has shaped the ways in which our curriculum is developed and our classes can communicate.

Web design and programming is now the area where I feel that most technology advancements are being made for those seeking wealth. Large companies hire young college graduates to design or enhance their existing sites in an attempt to boost sales. Other sites provide domain names and web site templates for up and coming businesses to get started on. There are people hired specifically to both maintain and build sites on these platforms, as well as to maintain the platforms themselves. No matter what way you slice it, there is something for everyone in there as long as you can find some kind of niche that needs filling. Things like search engine optimization make no real sense to many people, but this is where big search engines figure out how exactly they should direct you to the information you are seeking. This may seem easy enough, but there is really equal access to all users to create web sites and thus there is a great deal of information out there with little to no oversight around the content. This is just open example, but there are plenty of areas in which development and research still needs done to improve the services of the internet at large.

For the college student this can seem like a huge field which requires you to be some super genius with technology. This is of course not true. Currently the newest developments in technology seem to have more to do with anatomy psychology than that of actual technological advancements. So if you are the happy liberal arts student who is more interested in why people do the things they do or like the things they like then you may just have a place for yourself within the silicon valley community that you hadn’t considered yet.