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Aramis and Postcolonial criticism
Who would have expected that Latours examination of techonological innovation would be in line with postcolonial criticism?
Homi K. Bhabha
No mimicking without difference
Hybridity is essential
Latour
No translation without transformation
Concept of Hybrid is essential
Pretty amazing.
This is the Midterm project for Multi Media by Eline and Nienke.
Trailer from the movie In Time, now in the cinema's. It's a great movie, you should watch it! A lot of fun, and you can count it under schoolwork because I think it fits well into our projects of critical design and scenario planning :)
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“Fixing” Autism (by jlmelgarejo)
This is gonna be on the website! :)
Track your stolen car & even get a call when it is stolen
You are about to unlock your cart to drive to work, or your date, or that soccer game that you need to play and you find out your car is gone, stolen.
The solution is there. A GPS-tracker, if installed before the car gets stolen, can track down the location of your car until several meters precise within one minute. There are several versions of these car-trackers already. For example, the GPRS-Autotracker – sim-card is included in these trackers, which means that you can call the tracker directly to find out the coordinates of the location of your car.
http://blog.v-nix.nl/2011/07/20/de-gps-autotracker-vindt-je-gestolen-auto-weer-terug/
There are cars that have trackers built in when you buy them. You can also install them yourself or get it done at a garage. Some insurance companies even require you to have a tracker because it saves them a lot of money.
A relatively exclusive version of the tracker is Trackstar. This version does not only track your vehicle and contacts the police, if the vehicle is moved illegally without the use of its keys, the unit will notify the Trafficmaster and they will contact the owner immediately.
http://www.trafficmaster.co.uk/content/1/62/stolen-vehicle-tracking.html
This is a product (Sterling) with the potential of a Spime (Sterling). Imagine that the Trackstar “pinpoints the locations of a stolen vehicle every 20 seconds.” When technology like this gets developed further, and more widely used (not only for cars) we will have immediate access to information about where anything is at any time. The “informational support” will be “overwhelmingly extensive and rich” (Sterling).
Idea for tracebility project
Is another world possible?
I am really glad you showed us the videos and told us about what is going on in America. I was sincerely touched by the videos, at some points I literally had goosebumps. I think it’s an incredible, powerful, and beautiful thing that is happening over there right now. I’ve studied in America for the past two years, so I’ve experienced how things are over there. I was amazed by the naivety of the people – how badly they wanted to believe in that American dream, and therefore simply didn’t face the reality of what was going on. Maybe not even consciously, but because they were blinded by that image of the American Dream that everyone keeps talking about. Of course there were Americans who saw this differently, especially the ones who had been abroad and saw themselves that there is more than just America. Also, I experienced that throughout my time there it seemed like more and more people started to face the real situation of America, and I’m so happy and touched to see that now they put their fears aside and face that the American dream is not what they’ve been told, that equality is very far from what their society currently is, and that things need to change. I think it is amazing that so many scared people ignore the fears they have, get out, put their hands together, and demand change.
I do think that another world is possible. Normally I think I would have said maybe not within a few weeks or even several days, but the fact that these people put their hands together, stay away from violence, and just stand up for their needs changes things. I think for America, right now, another world is very, very close. If it will actually be there, we’ll find out soon, but if these people keep it up the same way they do right now, I think things will change, soon.
Singularity :)
Research Peak Oil
Basic information about and around Peak Oil
http://www.afterpeakoil.com/
http://www.postpeakliving.com/peak-oil-primer
After peak oil, are we heading towards social collapse? (energy bulletin)
http://www.energybulletin.net/node/52402
"Peak Oil" doesn't matter
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/andrew-winston/peak-oil-doesnt-matter_b_804132.html
Peak oil news, predictions, articles
http://www.peak-oil-news.info/global/consequences/
Sourcescan, handheld version in use.
Sci-Fi prototype: Sourcescan - handheld version
This prop can scan peoples brain and identify where information used for ideas/norms/believes/etc. comes from.
Ex. - Information received through resonance of the skull comes from Sonic Projector.
- Information received through eyes/ears comes from the environment.
- Information evolved in the brain represents self-made/developed connections/opinions/ideas etc.
Versions: Handheld version - for detailed use
Fixed version - for area scanning
Main function
It can determine wether people are 'manipulated' or not. Where people themselves can't tell the difference between the Sonic Projector and their imagination, this device can.
'Working' handheld Sourcescan in progress :)
Sourcescan, main-installation at HighEye.
SGCD Greet (seen in the reflection of the screen) is confronted with the unknown soure-code given by the installation.
The Sourcescan - Sci-Fi Design Project
Pick your Science and Build Your World
I chose the Sonic Projector Program from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency.
The Sonic Projector Program has been wildly used with success – making peace, getting criminals to confess their crimes, etc. However, except the sender and receiver, no one knows exactly how/when the Sonic Projector is used – this endangers the lives and privacy of citizens.
Faith of people is misused, especially that of strong believers from any kind of religion – voices are led into their heads, making them think that God is speaking to them.
Sourcecode has been developed to check the supposed work of the Sonic Projector Program, the fourth version of the device just got released.
CGCD (Commander Global Citizen Defense) Greet, head of Global Citizen Defense, is called to the field to evaluate a problematic signal from the recently introduced sourcescan 4.0.
CGCD Greet, initial founder of sourcescan and commander of Global Defense, is called in to evaluate what this sourcecode means, and what action will be taken.
The Scientific Inflection Point
A new source of information is found. This means one of two things – there is live somewhere that literally rules our world, or God exists.
Ramifications of the Science on People
CGCD Greet goes off to the HighEye of the concerned area. She hasn’t been out in the field for years, and is excited and curious what could be so important to call her in, a breakthrough?
The HighEye of the concerned area informs CGCD Greet of the fact that the sourcescan gave source-code EXTERNAL (the expected possible sources were limited to INJECTED, IMPRINTED, and CREATED).
The initial source-code came from a regular citizen, but in the little time between the departure of CGCD Greet from headquarters and her arrival at the working dock of HighEye the amount of observations of this particular source-code has grown exponentially and still does – even notifications of this source-code come in from people with high safety clearance, like the Commander of Global Police.
CGCD Greet contacts the CoGP to ask for his recent sources, explaining him the urge of the situation, but making sure that she doesn’t mention the actual issue.
His answers confirm Greets thoughts. He doesn’t mention any special sources Greet hadn’t taken into account. This means the CoGP’s mind has been manipulated. This on it’s own wouldn’t be something to be concerned about because it happened all the time under the motto ‘Global Security.’ However, this source code had a frequency not recognized by the system, meaning – there is live somewhere outside planet earth that literally rules our world, or ‘God’ exists.
The Human Inflection Point
Greet faces an unimaginable dilemma. Making this discovery public would change the world forever. Everything would loose its meaning because everything could have been or has been led, or at least influenced, by others.
If further investigation would show proof that God does not exist, millions of people would loose their faith, their hope, or, in their eyes, even their reason for living.
If the possibility that other life navigates life on earth would become public, the resulting chaos would be incalculable.
Greet can choose not to share her findings with anyone in order to protect humanity, but if science has gotten this far, eventually someone else will make the same discovery.
What did we learn?
The fact that Greet developed the sourcescan, and so thought she could check what Global Government institutions were doing and defend and ensure the privacy of the people, only proved that mankind doesn’t have any control at all.
Sourcescan was invented to defend and ensure peoples privacy. However, how far can we go to do this? Isn't the sourcescan itself a break into people's privacy - registering where people's ideas come from?
Scientific inventions are not always useful. Knowing more doesn’t make things necessarily better. People’s obsession with controlling things can be counterproductive.
This is my inspiritional (currently used) technology. Check out the first comment on the original article: http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2007/06/darpas_sonic_pr/
Of course you'll never know if this is true or not, but still, it blew me away.
This is the basic foundation of my prop for the Sci-Fi Design Assignment.
Assignment - Sketch 4 futures
