First of all, the most important thing of today’s unsymposium was that Eddie brought me chocolate Lindt balls. Thank you from the bottom of my heart.

Adrian demonstrated the power of online media through the example of The Faces of Facebook, a website that was started by a girl who ‘codes for fun projects’ called Natalia Rojas. Adrian pointed out that this girl would have received hundreds of emails with job offers due to her coding skills and all she did to put herself out there was create this project. I probably shouldn’t say ‘all she did’, as it would have taken a lot of hard work and skill and 9 programs to create (wow). But to get herself noticed she came up with something relatively simple and new and went out there and did it. Now even if I had an idea like this I wouldn’t know where to start. It really inspired me to start learning HTML in depth though. Back when I was 15 years old and blogging on tumblr I learnt a bit of HTML and would help other people with tumblr accounts edit their blog themes. I actually really enjoyed it but back then I didn’t think I could make anything significant through knowing how to edit a tumblr theme.

Adrian also spoke about a ‘small world network’. A network which has so many connections between things that it is simple to get to one part to an unrelated other part. He gave the example that Hollywood is a small world network. All the actors are in some way connected through movies they have acted in. Yet again he shows us another simple yet fantastic website called The Oracle of Bacon which demonstrates any actors connection to Kevin Bacon. At most the actors have only about 4 links. The most obscure actor has such a minimal amount of links to Kevin Bacon. Now when Adrian said that the most links he had found was 4 I took this as a challenge. I am still sitting here typing in the most obscure of actors and I can’t even get passed 3 links. It’s fascinating. “A structure will emerge”.

It was said that Technology is anything that isn’t nature for humans. And since we have advanced so far out of basic human nature like natural births without blood tests or ultrasounds, or food that isn’t  manufactured for us, is everything technology? Is everything about us now unnatural? Shaved legs, hair cuts, clothes, apples that were protected with insecticide, beds, houses, a letter, brushed teeth…