What's in your Infosphere?

In Michael Vlahos’ “Entering the Infosphere”, he defines the info sphere as being “… the shorthand for the fusion all the world’s communication networks, databases and sources of information, into a vast and intertwined and heterogeneous tapestry of electronic interchange.” (Vlaho’s 2) The way I would describe it to make it clearer would be to say: picture your selft inside a giant bubble. Now think about all the internet sites you visit, all the social networks you chat on, and all the places you visit for just fun, or for shopping. Now picture all of those sites around  your bubble. This is sort of a picture of what Vlahos’ Infosphere would look like.

I agree with his definition of Infosphere. I do not know a whole lot about it right now, but from what I have learned both in the classroom, and out, the infosphere encompasses you and the things that you do each day. As it becomes more popular, more and more activities will be added to our infospheres because they will be available to us online. Vlahos’ opinion, of which I agree, is that soon our infosphere will be of great importance to our everyday lives, even more than it is now.

Vlahos predicted that in the future people will be able to conduct business, and do their work, and conduct their activities on their Infosphere. I agree with this however he goes on to say that eventually be able to meet with a doctor through our infosphere also, and I thought this was just absurd! How is a doctor supposed to make a diagnosis when you are not face to face with them? I do not see it working. But he is right when he said that people will be able to gather and share information on it, because that is sort of what we are doing right now. We are not far from most activities being conducted on and through our infospheres.