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 +===== Men & Machines | Mind Hacks =====
 +Engineering Design Studio (A5, 015)\\
 +Thursday, October 13, 2016, 11:50 am – 13:05 pm 
  
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 +
 +
 +=== Foreword ===
 +  * Attendance
 +  * [[machine_types|Machine types Sandbox]] (please add/update your description)
 +  * NYU Classes: misleading homework of reading assignment
 +  * Tour to RAK and Sharjah is booked…
 +
 +=== Case Study Presentation ===
 +
 +| 18 | Mind Hacks  | October 13, 2016  | Hamza  |
 +
 +=== Discussion ===
 +
 +Hamza will lead through the 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/Men & Machines//?
 +
 +
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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//?
 +
 +=== Reading Assignment ===
 +
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 +
 +Mind Hacks\\
 +By Tom Stafford, Matt Webb\\
 +Publisher : O'Reilly\\
 +Pub Date : November 2004\\
 +ISBN : 0-596-00779-5\\
 +Pages : 394\\
 +
 +PDF available via NYU Classes.
 +
 +Please read the following:
 +  * Preface
 +  * the part about //Why Mind Hacks?//
 +  * From first chapter 1: **Hack 11.**// Why People Don't Work Like Elevator Buttons// and **Hack 12.** //Build Your Own Sensory Homunculus//
 +
 +=== Links ===
 +– [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nF-5CMozGWY|Kevin Kelly's talk at TEDxS]], 2010