A DISCOVERY OF NEW KNOWLEDGE IN URBAN AND REGIONAL PLANNING: ARE WE ABSORBED TO ICT FACILITIES OR ICT FACILITIES ABSORBED US?

Sunday 7 March 2010

ARE WE ABSORBED TO ICT FACILITIES OR ICT FACILITIES ABSORBED US?

Last Thursday, I read a few PhD theses, not a recent theses but theses wrote in 15 - 20 years ago. I wondered how they are managed and searched for the latest information. I imagined how they used typewriter and hand writing to keep their information in their note books (I mean not a laptop). However they can complete their thesis on time.

Today in the world of IT, we are as a PhD student has an advanced facility to search latest information related to our research and managed your information. I noticed every university students, undergraduate and postgraduate have laptop or desktop. There are so many search engine such as Yahoo, Google etc to assist us to search and download information on university, government and company website, latest journals, book review, newspaper online and etc. However why we cannot complete our thesis on time. Is it the research methodology is too complicated or there are so many university's requirement to fulfill? ICT should expedite our research not make our research difficult to complete.

Furthermore, ICT also absorbed us to spend more time to search and download irrelevant information to our research. I used a word absorbed because we spend so much time unnecessary to :

a) searching information for entertainment... gossip, films, song, movie stars etc;

b) reply email;

c) Yahoo messenger (YM)

c) read, update and reply facebook;

d) read and update blog;

e) read and update twitter;

f) You Tube;

g) Download movies and songs; etc

One of my friends said.. facebook make our networking widen and meet new friends. Did I need this? You tube..you will not miss anything, watching video etc. Email...exchange information so easily. The above entertainment and social websites really attracted us until we forget that we have more important thing to do. How much we spend our time to update our facebook or reply our email or download movies or song in laptop? What ever it is...up to you to assess which one good and bad. We should wisely think which one more important...complete our research or entertain ourself....

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A DISCOVERY OF NEW KNOWLEDGE IN URBAN AND REGIONAL PLANNING

Sunday 7 March 2010

ARE WE ABSORBED TO ICT FACILITIES OR ICT FACILITIES ABSORBED US?

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