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What company/business is having the greatest impact in the world today, either positive or negative?

Cloud services brought the greatest impact to the world. According to IBM homepage (2017), Cloud computing means computing as a service over the internet. Cloud computing often referred to as simply “the cloud,” is the delivery of on-demand computing resources – everything from applications to data centers – over the internet on a pay-for-use basis.

I consider there are six drastic impacts which Cloud services brought; Social network, E-commerce, Crowdsourcing, Crowd-funding, Working style and Education. Gratton (2011) described the Cloud becomes ubiquitous; rapidly developing technology will create a global infrastructure upon which are available services, applications and resources. Cloud allows anyone with a computer or handheld devices to use these services from every corner of the world.

As a positive opinion, developing Cloud services promote globalization and diversification. Additionally, it will be easy to receive services that could not be accepted due to constraints such as location and time. Works become speedy and efficiently. On the other hand, discretion or evaluation is left to individual from the organizational. Therefore, as a negative opinion, there is a fear the disparity due to individual ability will expand further. Moreover, Employment and wages will be culled, as labor will flow to AI and low-cost wages.  The opportunities for face to face are reduced and people may feel more lonely.

6 impacts Cloud services brought to the world

1. Social network

Social networking sites (SNS) have become the major personal networking platform. Statista (2017) showed As of the first quarter of 2017, Facebook had 1.94 billion monthly active users.

Ex. Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Linkedin, Google+, WhatsApp, WeChat, Pinterest, LINE

2. E-commerce

According to eMarketer (2016), total retail sales across the globe will reach $22.049 trillion in 2016, up 6.0% from the previous year and it also estimates sales will top $27 trillion in 2020.

E-commerce: Amazon, eBay, Alibaba, Rakuten

Online payment: PayPal

3. Crowdsourcing

Daily Crowdsource (2017) indicates Crowdsourcing is the process of getting work or funding, usually online, from a crowd of people. The word is a combination of the words ‘crowd’ and ‘outsourcing’. As crowdsourcing can outsource talent from around the world, not only to workers in their own country, it will change the form of employment and payment in the world.

Ex: oDesk, Eklnce, witmart.com, Freelancer.com, 99designs, ImageBrief, ZOOPPA, Local Motors, talenthouse, Million You, Design Crowd, crowdsRING, eYeka, Chaordix, InnoCentive, Amazon Mechanical Truk, Clickworker, CrowdFlower, collective bias, agentarything,

4. Crowd-funding

Crowd-funding platform offers entrepreneurs opportunity to generate funds for their new venture.

Ex. Indigogo, RocketHub, Peerbackers, Kickstarter,

5. Working style

Cloud computing brings the innovative tools. These permits to telecommute or work from anywhere in the world.

Sharing knowledge: Google Drive, Dropbox, Evernote

Teleconference: Skype, Google Hangout, Apper.in

6. Education

According to the Business Insider (2015), there are 37 best websites for learning a new skill. We can learn interactively at our own pace and at any place through the websites and apps. Khan Academy is a non-profit educational organization created in 2006 by educator Salman Khan with a goal of creating an accessible place for people to be educated. It provides short lectures by using YouTube videos (Khan Academy web site, 2017). edX, a massive open online course (MOOC), provides online courses from the world’s best universities. The MIT and Harvard University created edX in 2012. In 2016, edX has around 10 million students taking more than 1.270 courses online (edX web site, 2016). Coursera also provides world’s best courses, online, for free. It founded by Stanford professors Andrew Ng and Daphne Koller. In 2017, it had more than 24 million registered users and more than 2,000 courses (CardRates.com web site, 2017).

References

Business Insider. (2015). The 37 best websites for learning a new skill. Retrived 3 June, 2017, from http://www.businessinsider.com/the-37-best-websites-for-learning-a-new-skill-2015-8

CardRates.com. (2017). Education for the Modern Era: Transform Your Financial Life with Online Classes from Coursera and 149 of the World’s Best Universities. Retrived 3 June, 2017, from http://www.cardrates.com/news/learn-finance-online-from-worlds-best-universities-with-coursera/

Daily Crowdsource. (2017). What is crowdsourcing. Retrived 3 June, 2017, from https://dailycrowdsource.com/training/crowdsourcing/what-is-crowdsourcing

edX. (2017). Year in Review: edX in 2016. Retrived 3 June, 2017, from http://blog.edx.org/year-review-edx-2016?track=blog

eMarketer. (2016). Worldwide Retail Ecommerce Sales Will Reach $1.915 Trillion This Year. Retrived 3 June, 2017, from https://www.emarketer.com/Article/Worldwide-Retail-Ecommerce-Sales-Will-Reach-1915-Trillion-This-Year/1014369

IBM Homepage. (2017). Retrived 3 June, 2017, from https://www.ibm.com/cloud-computing/learn-more/what-is-cloud-computing/

Khan academy. (2017). Retrived 3 June, 2017, from https://www.khanacademy.org/about

Lynda Gratton. (2011). The Shift: The future of work is already here. [Kindle version]. Retrieved from http://www.amazon.com. Location No. 384-396.

Statista. (2017). Number of monthly active Facebook users worldwide as of 1st quarter 2017 (in millions). Retrived 3 June, 2017, from https://www.statista.com/statistics/264810/number-of-monthly-active-facebook-users-worldwide/

#BerkeleyX: ColWri2.2x Academic and Business Writing #Assignment Week1 #Pop-up Assignments

What type of writing I typically do?

Since 2013 I have written various papers at the business school. For example, as a journal, I picked up some workplace problems and how to improve reflecting what I have learned. As the other type of writing, based on case studies, I gathered data, graphed, analyzed and summarized the considerations. Finally, I wrote the business plan proposal with my co-founders. These were hard works and took a lot of time, however this experience was awoken my desire to learning academic writing return to the foundation. I strongly feel the necessity to cultivate my own writing skills so that I can send out an attractive and creative journal in addition to logical and easy-to-understand sentences.

What I think about writing? Enjoy? Dread?

I love to write and the dream from elementary school was to be a journalist. In fact, I am working at a broadcasting company in Japan. Because my department is an engineering bureau, I am not mainly writing articles or writing manuscripts for broadcasting. However, there are many opportunities to explain what kind of updating or new broadcasting facilities are necessary in the future.

Writing is one of the means of communication. I feel very rewarding when I can convey to people properly and share information through my writing. It is laborious to write when I define the appropriate theme, target and the genre of writing style but I enjoy it.

What area of writing I need to improve most

First of all English is my second language, so I must make sure to use variety of vocabularies and not to mistake words or grammar.

Secondly, in order to communicate clearly to people, it is necessary to keep in mind the logical writing. Specifically, it is to describe consistent story and structures.

Thirdly, this is what I need to improve most, but to draw attractive and creative journals and articles. I believe that technology and journalism are inseparable even in recent years, such as data journalism. Now I am learning the method of data analysis additionally I try to improve my writing skill so that I would like to write useful blogs that people in the world can access. In future I want to create a new journalism platform using data visualization and write the article what I want to appeal clearly.

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