Week 3

Utopia and Dystopia.

Utopias ( Greek meaning nowhere)

'Technology itself has often been visualised as utopia'.

Is this a natural thing? Well, let's face it, not much about our society is natural anymore.

There has been a rash of dystopias where technology is used to dominate people"aldous huxley"

Language could be corrupted into 'newspeak' to obscure the truth. 'George Orwell'

New com tech has led to myths, about transcending death,nature,and humanity.

liberations from reality or just distractions?

Net or web a place to visit,socialize and play that is not constrained by the laws of the physical world.( Tim berners-lee )

Cyberspace is a real place. i am there. i am not here. the utopian possibilities become evident.

MUD's or multi-user domains, A MUD is an example of the 'consensual hallucination' (william Gibson )

Game playing can develop into complex domains of psychological exploration ( turkle )

Artificial Intelligence enthusiasts insist that if computers can be taught to phrase sentences and play chess, it is only a matter of time before they will be able to simulate the full complement of human mental activity.( Hans Moravec ) The human brain could be downloaded using high-resolution magnetic resonance measurements .

( mike Kelly ) Extropian movements , genetic engineering and nanomachines, cyber resurrections.

We are privileged to witness the dawning of a new kind of space. what history will make of this only time will tell. ( Copernicus )

THE HUNT
Onel de Guzman was the creator of the "lovebug" virus. http://archives.cnn.com/2000/TECH/computing/06/29/philippines.lovebug.02/index.html

Norwegian Johan Vaaler invented the paper clip. http://ask.yahoo.com/20031120.html

Ebola virus was named after an African river in the Congo. http://allafrica.com/stories/200712130029.html

The largest recorded earthquake was recorder in Chile in 1960 – Magnitude 9.5. http://earthquake.usgs.gov/regional/world/10_largest_world.php

1 terabyte = 1 073 741 824 kilobytes. http://www.ask.com/web?qsrc=2417&o=0&l=dir&q=how+many+kilobytes+in+a+terabyte

Ray Tomlinson invented email in 1971. http://itmanagement.earthweb.com/entdev/article.php/1408411

Storm worm spreads via email. http://antivirus.about.com/od/virusdescriptions/p/storm.htm
Some experts put the number close to 10 million, others between a few hundred thousand and a million. http://blog.washingtonpost.com/securityfix/2007/10/the_storm_worm_maelstrom_or_te.html

Write a letter to
The Hon Kevin Rudd MP
Prime Minister Parliament House
CANBERRA ACT 2600
http://www.pm.gov.au/contact/index.cfm

Stephen Stockwell was a member of the band The Black Assassins. http://www.griffith.edu.au/school/art/staff/stockwell.htm

Web 2.0 is the updated -A new developmentof services offered on the net that encourages more people to get on-line , user friendly applications. www.2020systems.com/internet-ad-glossary-r-z.html

week 2

'virtual reality' What is it realy?
The internet was created by the military.
What is cultural policy?
What is the practicality with the web?
What is the academic standard of work on the web?
1949>transmitter to message > degraded to listener.
"your communication will take on a life of it's own "
- steel yourself to all critique- (be hard).
Create a response and make sure you have a presence.
How do you debate constructively?
What are the differences in analog and digital?