==== Case-Study presentations ====

|12|The Gestalt Principles  |TUE, 10-29-17  |Grace  |
|13|Mind Hacks  |TUE, 10-29-17  |Vitoria  |
|14|The Zoetrope  |TUE, 10-29-17  |Junior  |

  * Hack 11. Why People Don't Work Like Elevator Buttons ⇒ Explain Pieron's Law
  * Hack 12. Build Your Own Sensory Homunculus ⇒ Run the [[http://www.sis.uta.fi/~csjaha/homunculus.html|java applet]] and explain what you see. Class experiment: Let's do Hack 12
  * Sony Bravia Motion flow TV's promotion. A [[https://vimeo.com/3349656|Zoetrope]] that was verified by Guinness World Records Book as the largest zoetrope.

=== Discussion ===

  * What do you think about ways of manipulating ourselves or others using a //mind hack//?
  * How can technology give our lives a greater meaning? What do you think?
  * What do you think about the future in the context of //Mankind and Technology//?

=== Reading Assignment ===

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In his book //What Technology Wants//  Kevin Kelly describes technology as a natural system – an extension of biological evolution. By mapping the behavior of life, we paradoxically get a glimpse at where technology is headed – or "what it //probably//  wants".

  * **Chapter 2: Inventing Ourselves**
      * What changed life substantially?
      * Please describe how Kelly retraces the development of the last 50.000 years…
      * Following John Neumann's determination about an evolution of technology: What will be the problems of the future?
  * **Chapter 3: History of Seven Kingdom**
      * What is meant with the term //Technium//?

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