Nov 19, 2021
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#4 TUTORIAL ?
1. With the smartphone in mind: in what sense is it (not) a phone? Here, consider the perspectives from pervasive computing and augmentation introduced in Friday’s lecture?
Nowadays a smartphone is more “smart” rather than “phone”. Most people don’t like to talk on the phone anymore or simply use much more his/her apps rather than any other functionality of the smartphone. And the way that the technology is advancing, with electronics components becoming more and more smaller and powerful, it is easy to imagine that in the near future, we will live in an environment in which everything or almost everything will have a some sort of chip to enhance its capabilities, making us in some way, connected 24/7, despite where we are.
2. What’s the point of having very high-speed broadband?
High-speed broadband can enable people and companies to connect in other ways that with slower connections wouldn’t be possible, such as video conferences (being for personal or business or even medical use) and to help people to learn more, through videos or online class.
3. What do we want these key technologies for? What do they want from us?
The same way that we, humans, create and change technologies to help us thrive, the technology change us in the way we think or enable us to see things that we didn’t noticed before. So we want these key technologies to assist us in our daily activities, to achieve the same or better results quicker and/or easily, and the technologies ended up changing us, demanding different necessities of us.
4. What do we end up needing them for? To what extent do they need us?
We need these technologies to help us thrive. And the technology need us as the same we need it.
5. Considering what we know from the 2013 mass surveillance disclosures (Edward Snowdon, the NSA, Boundless Informant, PRISM), what would it take for you to stop using your smartphone, and/or to modify your use?
I always tried to be careful with the information I put on the internet, so the mass surveillance disclosures didn’t change my way of using it. Even before this, we already knew that many giant companies did some sort of surveillance, taking notes of what we do, what we like, what we search for in the internet and uses that information to increase their revenues, or sell that information to people who are interested in them.