In the year 2064...

~Welcome again to another amazing blog post. Today, you are about to witness the future of technology...in newspaper article style! Well, of course, it's not an actual fortune-teller, but rather something fictional that's based off of predictions and real events. The news that they make up often interests me as a reader, for instance, there's a headline that reads, "Man found guilty of driving his own vehicle" Here's the picture:



Eeyup; basically how we drive our vehicles now will be considered illegal in the future. A lot of laws and rules will change because of technology. 
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~Well, the point of all of this is not to explain what is going on in the fictional stories; it's what I have to say about it all. So, in my opinion, I think that all of the stories behind what business corporations have in store for us is quite interesting, actually. I mean, can you imagine having a second life AND becoming immortal at the same time? Even in the year 2064, Metro decided to make that concept quite new as it told its interesting story. Here's that website:

http://metronews.ca/features/metro-2064/

~We obviously know that this plays an important role in the Business Industry because it's about a matter of when and how it will affect people for years to come. Anyways, that's about it for this post. Since there is only one source, I thought it would be better if you could just directly read it from the website instead of having me to summarize everything and remove the originality from their works. =/

~Jeff Ma

Advertisements Everywhere

~Advertisements. The gateway for linking the business company itself with its potential customers. Why do we see these annoying wonders everyday in any place possible? Because, my friends, this is how the Business Industries bring everything together into one place. It's art for every one of us to enjoy, and it is also the result of the hard work that companies put in to effectively sell their products. Let's take a deeper and more thorough analysis.




-The definition of advertising is a form of marketing communication used to manipulate an audience to take or continue to take some action. The word Advertising comes from the Latin word "Ad vertere" meaning "To turn towards." The purpose of advertising is mainly to promote a commercial offering, but it may also prove to the employees and stockholders that a company is successful. Advertising organizations often try to make more of their products get consumed. In 2010, spending on advertising totaled an estimate at $467 billion worldwide.




~So basically, advertisers are persuaders that manipulate their customers' life styles to their preferences. When they create their advertisements, they're looking for elements such as contrast between the image colour and the colour of the text, how appealing and relevant their advertisement is to their purpose, and the cost of making such an advertisement. Advertisers want something similar to a presentation being given out, so they balance between comprehensibility and detail. I bet that most of the advertisements that you see in your everyday life display the information that they want you to know in large and powerful fonts, and they display the rest of them in fine print...

Except for maybe this guy to the right. =/

On further analysis of this advertisement, I think what they are trying to tell us is that all of this is the reason "why street kids can't just get a life." The question is clearly readable in large and capitalized font, but the answer is in small and almost unreadable text. The point is not what the small texts mean, but how much of it has been written as an answer to the question above. That's why. 

As you can see, even though they've formatted the reasons to a point where no one will ever care about what it says, they were still able to deliver the message to me. 

Or, maybe it's just because they had advertising issues. They might've typed in too much information and realized that it won't all fit into one page. So they shrunk the long paragraph but they let the first and last sentences stay because they felt like it. Only the company Covenant House knows why it made this advertisement. 

Oh well. At least we know what it's about. Moving on...

Types of Advertising.

~For further reading on what each of these mean, see http://bit.ly/SU0Bno

1. Television/Music in advertising.

2. Infomercials.

3. Radio advertising.

4. Online advertising.

5. New Media.

6. Product placements (covert advertising).

7. Press advertising.

8. Billboard advertising.

9. Mobile billboard advertising.

10. In-store advertising.

11. Coffee cup advertising.

12. Street advertising.

13. "Sheltered Outdoor Advertising"

14. Celebrity branding.

15. Consumer-generated advertising.

16. Aerial advertising.

~Alright, so now I want your opinions on advertising. How does it affect your daily life? Why do you think they do this? Leave a comment for me to look upon below! It sure will help out this and all my other blog posts! Thank's for reading, and as always, have a nice day! =D

~Jeff Ma

The Future of Humanity.

~Have you ever considered life without this glorious planet? Or when Earth and all the life it contains will meet its end? There may be no one in the Business Industry who cares about all of this as of right now, but everything has to end at some point. We have the knowledge of creating backup plans in case if our first plan fails. And in terms of business, this is very important to ensure that corporations do not implode on themselves if tasks don't go accordingly. So what's the backup plan for humanity? Well then, I'm glad you asked, because there is more than one answer:

Mars, the bloody red planet. It's been rusting in cosmic silence ever since life abandoned this cold sphere. Yet it's the closest and by far the most popular host for mankind. They've been spying on his planet ever since they thought that life used to thrive on this planet. They've sent a lot of probes here to study its geography, but most of the probes have failed to even stick a landing. However, the probes that did manage to survive on Mars for a while sent back amazing data. Scientists have proposed to launch a [one way] manned mission to Mars in as little as 10 years! Of course, they will establish permanent residence there for them to live in. =)
Further reading: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars

Europa. No, it's not Europe in Italian; it's actually one of Jupiter's moons. As well, this amazing satellite appears to be made out of...ice? Europa is the smallest of Jupiter's 4 Galilean moons, and it has an atmosphere composed of mainly oxygen. It is believed that underneath this ice lies a vast ocean of water, where living entities may exist. In late 2008, it was hypothesized that Jupiter is the main cause of keeping the water unfrozen. Although Europa does contain tons of water, it is slowly losing it through periodic geysers of water vapour. We better save it fast! 
Further reading: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Europa_(moon)

Titan. As blurry as the picture may seem, it's not made up. This is the best view they could ever get from basically the Earth in deep freeze. That's right, what seems to be liquid water on this moon of Saturn are actually hydrocarbons, something that we need for our everyday transportation. But of course, there still is water ice on the surface of Titan. Anyways, the yellow-orange haze you see is made up of methane and ethane clouds, and the smog you see is nitrogen-rich! Any lifeform that exists on Titan would be chemically structured to survive on hydrogen instead of oxygen, and exhale methane instead of carbon dioxide! It's an awesome place to explore! =D
Further readings: http://goo.gl/wdUaCk   http://goo.gl/rP1IqL

~Now, do you see how much potential we have in making our existence eternal? Mankind has the ability to live on for billions of years to come, and we've only scratched the surface. Astronomers have discovered habitable places outside of our solar system hundreds of light years away! They are called exoplanets, and they are the jewels within the universe! They've found exoplanets that are far larger than Jupiter (and closer to their stars as well), they've found exoplanets made out of Diamonds, and they've even found planets that resemble the characteristics of planet Earth! This is definitely something that I think business companies should invest their money in, because of the limitless possibilities. It pays off really well in the long-term if invested properly, and it also makes a contribution to the development of science! 

~Jeff Ma

More information on exoplanets: http://goo.gl/DA5jdp