my week 12 self
I made it! After beginning the semester quite sceptical about the model of learning for Network Media I am so happy I opened up my mind and enabled myself to speculate and create. In Letter to my Week 12 self…
Future Predictions
I found this interesting website that has a speculative timeline of future history. Part fact and part fiction, the timeline is based on detailed research that includes analysis of current trends, long-term environmental changes, advances in technology such as Moore’s…
Weird examples to help explain
Do you know of any racing car driver who doesn’t have a deep understanding of cars, engines, tyres, and of course driving – they don’t just drive. Do you know of any dancer that doesn’t have a deep understanding of…
The Last UnLecture
individuals in relation to new technologies are like sponges, we soak it up and can’t get enough institutions in relation to new technologies are like bricks, they put in more and more walls to prevent people from using it outside…
Ten dreams of technology
Interesting thoughts: The hope is that, in not too many years, human brains and computing machines will be coupled together very tightly, and that the resulting partnership will think as no human brain has ever thought and process data in…
w11 unlecture
The question was raised why didn’t Tim Berners- Lee patent the web? I found this interesting article with ideas about where the world would be today if the World Wide Web had been patented- • Rather than an open World…
Living with Robots
Currently working on an Artificial Intelligence Niki, I came across some interesting images that really made me speculate what it could be like living amongst Robots in the future. And how soon could this be our reality…
ANT in simple terms
I was left quite confused after the Latour reading and couldn’t quite grasp the idea of ANT. Deciding to investigate the web for a clearer explanation, good old Wikipedia pulled through with summarizing the approach in much clearer terminology. Even…
Foucault Refresher
This weeks readings mention Foucaults analysis of micro powers, to refresh myself on his theories I can across this interesting scholarly article. Micro Powers