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Take a look, you won’t regret it. In fact you’ll probably hire him for your next gig!
Flash.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JNvXKLFDb7U
This poem/short film is both moving, scary and saddening.
Flash
Aside from being slightly late to this class to grab some $9 asian food (CJ Lunchbar, Hardware Lane, ER MA GURD SO GOOD) when Luke Egan, #doyoueganblog and myself entered the room we were discusses, has technology made our lives easier, and the pros and cons of this. Unfortunately Elliot, our technological, articulate and cupcake master seen below only allocates us so much time for discussions each week and it is inevitable that we always go over time. I would have LOVED to have taken this discussion further because I have talked about it many times in the past and the varieties in opinion make it very interesting, especially in how many instances people can become quite aggressive on the topic.
What does Flash think? Are we slaves to technology? Of course we are, of course I think that. I am the biggest criminal of them all. I run a blog with my instagram, flickr, Facebook, smugmug, youtube, vimeo, wordpress and probably like 20 other things all connected. I have an iMac, iPad, iPhone, and Macbook all synced nicely in the iCould. Ew, feel sick even writing it, but its all true. I don’t know anyone my age of 20 who isn’t a slave to technology. Granted I know many who have there best attempts to make people ‘think’ they are immortal to these advances in technology but to be blunt they are just liars, its too convenient, its too easy. So what do we do because it isn’t going to go away, not is it? No. Its not, that is why these people are so wrong. You can’t fight it so don’t bother. I personally love technology and what it does for us but I know that there needs to be restrictions. I don’t like the fact that if I go out to dinner I can be contacted by anyone and everyone on at least 6 different applications all coming through one device…but I don’t know where the restaurant is, so I need google maps. Awkward yes, avoidable, yes again. Have a look at home before you go and then remember the directions, write them down on some good old fashioned paper.
Technology will always be there, right in your face, it is about how you deal with it, how you discipline yourself. Don’t blame society and the creators of this technology. No one is saying you have to use it. You run the technology, not the other way around. Anyway, I might do a separate blog post on this topic because I find it very interesting and this could go on forever. Back to the class!
The preparation has begun for our deadly HTML test which is only a mere 6 DAYS AWAY and it would seem that many of us are not ready for it. I would do a massive blog on it but Elliot was kind enough to email us the basic instructions on how to prepare. Woo! Essentially it was an extension of the previous week, now incorporating a program called Cyberduck, which may or may not be for the test itself, I can’t actually remember but we need to download it and create folders etc. However be warned, this is really all Elliot’s emails discusses. The actually content is not included so, please refer back to my last workshop blog which can be found in the workshop categories (linked below 🙂 ). Everything is basically there but again we have to write up some code that has a heading, link to another page/site, incorporates an image, line break, paragraphs and something has to be in bold. I certainly hope that is all. Happy studying, see some of you in class next week!
Flash
p.s. I have linked a really cool/moving video below about being a slave to technology. Everyone should watch this and I will also post as a separate video link.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JNvXKLFDb7U – Slaves Of Technology
http://www.mediafactory.org.au/luke-vanderzeil/2014/08/12/the-grey-space/ HTML Help Blog
Science. The future. Evolution. I liked this article because it causes you to think, to take existing technologies further in your own minds eye into the distant horizon that is the future and take them to a logical outcome, which is pretty awesome if you ask me. The article written by one of the scientists who worked on the Manhattan Project (big ass bombs, yea that one) explores the power of science and technology in everyday life, or more to the point at the article states, after the fighting has ceased. These advances in science allow us to mass produce creations and ideas, things that in the past would have been impossible. Scientists and inventors are in a constant struggle as they may have an idea in there head but due to the technologies of the present they cannot pursue such creations. The articles example of the Pharaoh best demonstrates this. Even when given the plans and ideas on how to create an automobile, the Pharaoh would still have to exhaust the majority of his kingdom and resources to make such a machine and even when it is completed it would break 100m into its first journey to Giza.
But what does this mean for technology? The article takes the idea of a camera through to a logical outcome of what appears in my mind to be a very advanced GoPro which is funny. This article was written in 1945, or so it says on the page. By taking the idea of the camera forward the scientist has practically described the latest GoPro to us. Isn’t that awesome?! What does that mean for us as human beings? What if you take the idea of a human forward? Are we destined for a genetic upgrade? Is all this talk of available brain space and cellular structure mean we will soon be part machine? Many people seem to think so. Below I have linked another Shots Of Awe video, which I may have linked before, I sure hope not that discusses, are we already cyborgs, and Jason Silva seems to think so, that we are destined to unlock our genetic code. Pretty awesome. After this post I will also post GoPros video of the week which is truly sick, very well shot, and is the best example of what this scientist had envisioned.
Perhaps one day we won’t need to carry around cameras and be aided by external pieces of technology, that we in fact could BE the technology. Purchase of genetic upgrades and cyborgs walking all over the place. I can see it happening, can you?
Flash
http://vogmae.dropmark.com/182742/3432611 – As We May Think, Article
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cUzFtWNOOOU – We Are Already Cyborgs, Shots Of Awe Video