The Avengers review

I saw yesterday the new , highly anticipated, Marvel's movie The Avengers. The movie had a lot of hype going on and to be honest it would be impossible that this wouldn't happen. It is a movie where you can see a lot of heroes fighting together and each other after all. So after watching the movies dedicated to each hero individually and enjoying all of them I was expecting that this movie wouldn't disappoint me as well. For what I think now after seeing it you will have to read a bit more.

Computer dependency. When enough is enough?

It is true that computers play a huge role in our lives. Their role was to help people with repetitive tasks especially calculations but now they can provide much more than that. They can provide us with information,entertainment even social interaction. I remember the times that something happened to my personal computer. I was completely annoyed until it was fixed. At those moments though I also noticed how much power that machine has on me. Now most people will say whatever I am not like that. Of course you are not until you realize that you cant live without your smart phone. They are little portable computers in a sense aren't they?

The perfect image showing this phenomenon is the following.

Education bubble

Recently I had a conversation with a close friend of mine about education bubble. How everyone has two or three diplomas, multiple masters but still can’t find a job. Is it possible? Supposingly when you follow a master’s program, you do it because you like it and because it will increase the chances to find a job, but why this is not the case?

In industry, you create a product, you make others believe it is mandatory to use and people buy it. The same rules apply to education. You create a variety of courses, you make others believe that your product is competitive and so, you get the money. Look England for example, they have a huge amount of Universities and every year they print tons of papers for degrees. Of course England is not the problem, the same rules apply worldwide, people pay to get a piece of paper that gives them a value.

The question is if this piece of paper really has value. From one hand when you print tons of papers you have inflation, meaning the value of the paper drops since you don’t have the unique privilege. On the other, when money flow to a direction bubbles start to appear.  Since people pay a lot of money to do a master’s program, it is obvious that more schools will appear to satisfy that need. The more schools you have, it is obvious the education level will drop.

So today we are talking about crisis unemployment etc. Except from the fact that global economy has fall in the mud, how is it possible to create jobs for all those people? The more graduates with a less ”serious” diploma you have, it is more likely for them to stay unemployed.

Wrath of the Titans review

Firstly I have to say that when I watched the first movie (Clash of the Titans) I didn't like it. It didn't have enough action,the impressive scenes were not as amazing as I would expect and the 3D part of the movie was so badly implemented that I was dizzy after the end of the movie. Generally when I leave the cinema wondering what more did that movie offer except from the scenes the trailer already provided something is wrong. So I was a bit suspicious when I heard about the sequel. The trailer left some promise, my brother insisted on seeing it and I had nothing better to do. Needless to say I went to see it and here is my point of view.