10-29-17
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 java applet and explain what you see. Class experiment: Let's do Hack 12
- Sony Bravia Motion flow TV's promotion. A 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
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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