Felix's Documentation of Teaching at NYUAD

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?