Stephanie's Blog
Friday, February 22, 2013
Week 4
Video 1 Robbie
Here, the boundary between
human and machine is questioned - if Robbie is capable of experiencing
loneliness, happiness, faith and friendship. His voice is non-human, his material
make up is robotic. If the humanistic
principles of autonomy, rationality, self-awareness, responsibility, resilience
and so on can be held by an artificial intelligence within a mechanical form,
what does that say about the extent to which they rely on human cognition and
the flesh of a human body to give ‘human’ meaning to the experience of the
world. He does not seem to have a human
memory. He has to create a world to live
in in his mind.
video 2 gumdrop
A vacuum-cleaning robot
actress who doesn’t do hallucinogenics or nudity. Gumdrop will cheer you up.
She raises many of the same questions, but this time there are differences -
literally - of voice and of embeddedness in the human world. For once, the
vision of a post human future is not dystopic... She strives to be different. To have enjoyed her childhood, and recalls
most of it. She has ethics that she
follows. She is happy, cheerful, and has
the talents of vacuuming and acting.
Video 3 True Skin
The nature of mind, memory
and learning, and the ways in which technological mediation is positioned in relation
to it are that your body parts can be replaced like they do in Star Wars. We are just bodies, that can be altered, and
repaired. Memories can be stored just
like computer back ups. and we have
digital tracking devices inside of us that allow us to see others and others to
see us.
Monday, February 18, 2013
Week 3
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Artifact
Week 3
Who or what, in your view,
will define what it means to be human in the future? Who or what defines it
now?
Video 1 Toyota GT 86
as stated human emotion/breaking out
the opposition created
here is between digital technology as ‘unreal’ and de-humanising, and the
natural world as authentic and living; This opposition continue to be played
out in popular discussions about technology-mediated education. It takes the personal interaction out of education.
Video 2 BT heart to heart
- Cell phone. The aspects of ‘the human’ do you seen as being ‘re-asserted’
here is the fact that he started to email or text his girl, then he decided
against it. He decided to use the phone
and call and hear her voice.
Video 3 World Builder
- building a virtual reality on a time schedule – decorating and
coloring with a touch of a color
portrayal of a god,
creates sunlight – a female character comes out. It turns out is probably a
wife or other loved one and he is creating a virtual reality for a person in a
recovery unit – likely a coma.
video 4 they are made out
of meat; The conclusions drawn from this about the human body, is we are
destructible, maybe even malleable. They
portray the fact that we are flesh and all things inside of us are just a
worthless piece of meat. The body is a stable basis for defining what it means
to be human. Without a body we have to
be made of metal. We are just as God
made us in a definite and intricate way.
Our blood flows, our heartbeats, our blood clots, and our body’s
reproduce.
Saturday, February 9, 2013
Week 2 "Looking to the Future"
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Week
2
Video
1: A Day Made of Glass 2
Education is being visualized here by showing the teaching
capabilities of glass are endless. You
can have the teacher show hands on activities; transfer them to the students’
desk, glass tablet, wall format displays and more. Here they are using it for art. They showed a
color wheel, and then they were able to go to the glass top table, and choose
their colors. The show it in the picking out of clothes in a closet mirror,
automobile radio, and tinted glass, and solar panels. They used it in the medical field to share
patient information between doctors, and then consult on a patient. Then they used it to display x-ray data, cat
scans, state parks for teaching dinosaurs, footprints, digital dinosaurs, TV
displays – large screen, not heavy.
The nature of communication in these future worlds is also
endless. Inbuilt telephone communication is already in
the cars, it could lead to visual phones in cars, and more motion activated
things. This would clearly be utopian, a society of
highly desirable, perfect students, vehicles, and neighborhoods.
Video 2: Productivity
Future
The age of the subjects
suggests they already know how to use the technology. The video starts out with the lady-approaching
road from airport, in foreign language, hears in English due to glasses, shown
by the red dots on the side of her glasses.
While in the car, makes hotel reservation with language preference, and
valet greets with hotel room key. The phone
has no edges, boundaries, views proposal, man makes purchase order, donates a
pledge,
she transfers info from
phone to glass tablet. The second subject a man, receives proposal, has on screen interaction,
but visual is very 3 dimensional. The two
men together information is instantly transferred with the touch of a finger-
virtual keyboard. I have scene this type
of computer displays on US TV shows such as NCIS and NCIS LA.
Education is shown by the student using the technology in their
homework to do math, scroll through math game. The virtual fridge to see inside without
opening and wasting energy/wall calendar to rearrange, or add to the step-by-step
recipe with visuals
This also opens the possibility for future communication. Seeming easy to use but is only one step away
from chip implantation as seen in other videos discussed here.
Video 3: Sight
The man in the video has virtual
contacts that show everything in electronic mode.
Here even cutting
of vegetables is electronic with the glasses.
He acts like he is playing fruit ninja – the takes score, shows the
exact measurements. When he messes up he
waists the food by discarding it in the sink.
Even the reminders show up
on his television. It seems with this technology there really no need to leave
the home, no exercise, and no interaction with the real world.
When he does go into the
real world, he seems distracted, has no clue how to talk to the date, always
accessing apps while talking to her. This
seems to show her that he is interested in her and knows about her, when in
reality he is looking up things as they go along without her knowledge.
When they arrive at the
apartment he can portray anything that he wants, however he left the games up. The ending seems to suggest that these eye implants have some
sort of mind control, and he can control her.
How does this vision align and contrast with the ones in the
first two films?
Video
4: Charlie 13
The
video starts with the boys looking through binoculars for what they say are deserters,
who may have blown up a watchtower. They
make comments that even the birds have chips and are watching their every move stopped
or picked up by the police. The society
of anyone over the age of 12 has chip implants in wrist for identification, and
in their finger for payment. Those under
12 still have a birth ID bracelet.
While
at this look out place he meets his father, the man he had been watching as a
deserter. His father does not want
Charlie not to have his implant put in, and wants Charlie to go with him.
Charlie 13 seems hopeful to be able
to track people, but very bleak if all have to fall under the same standards.
Video 5: Plurality
The story starts with the society
being compiled into a system called the “Grid.” It takes all info and links to a person’s
DNA including bank accounts, passport, and etc.
The video shows a lady taking off
her wedding band, and bumping into the rail information system. This places an alert in the system that she
is a duplicate and duplicates are arrested for fear that they will mess up
the system or change something. The
idea that this grid had gotten so bad that the lady and some others traveled
back in time to try to fix it.
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Plurality’s
depictions of the impact of surveillance technologies seem almost communistic,
or socialistic. The idea is that people
are always watching, and have easy ways to track you. As far as educational practices today, it
would allow students to be very in touch with each other, but allow
administration to know their every move.
I do
not want to be in either Charlie’s or Alana’s society. Honestly, I do not like
either society. They are both
controlling and have too much interest in personal lives. It reminds me of the rumors of big brother
always watching. We know police can
track credit cards, cell phones and more, but usually they need probable cause
to do so. Here they are just doing it
regardless of permission or not.
Monday, February 4, 2013
Bendito Machine III
The movie shows that everytime something new comes they disregard the old, and replace the idol with the new. For example: the old bull radio replaced with the new TV – advertisements
It ends up looking like– storm, changes to eye that blows up, then TV turns to the devil. It gets horns, and a bad face. Other things, ½ way in guns, exercising, cars, and one character runs away and back up mountain.
INBOX
I think it seems utopian. The two bags are connected, when separated they provide a secret means of communication. When the video was created these new ideas of inbox, messaging, emails may not have existed. However, today they are the way people communicate. When the bag rips, there is no other way to communicate between the two.
THURSDAY
Bird imitates the street cleaner, then the ladies cell phone. Bird longing for food because of the advanced technology. It has taken away all sources of food.The lack of nature falls in the computer area. The bird in tern pulls the plug like a worm/nest builder, takes to a satellite to her baby birds.
It seems that technology is represented in everything we do. The cities in the video look electronic. There are losses of time, natural elements being blocked out, sun, space, individual-personal involvement.
The movie shows that everytime something new comes they disregard the old, and replace the idol with the new. For example: the old bull radio replaced with the new TV – advertisements
It ends up looking like– storm, changes to eye that blows up, then TV turns to the devil. It gets horns, and a bad face. Other things, ½ way in guns, exercising, cars, and one character runs away and back up mountain.
INBOX
I think it seems utopian. The two bags are connected, when separated they provide a secret means of communication. When the video was created these new ideas of inbox, messaging, emails may not have existed. However, today they are the way people communicate. When the bag rips, there is no other way to communicate between the two.
THURSDAY
Bird imitates the street cleaner, then the ladies cell phone. Bird longing for food because of the advanced technology. It has taken away all sources of food.The lack of nature falls in the computer area. The bird in tern pulls the plug like a worm/nest builder, takes to a satellite to her baby birds.
It seems that technology is represented in everything we do. The cities in the video look electronic. There are losses of time, natural elements being blocked out, sun, space, individual-personal involvement.
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