ha! i agree that it is pretty real. when i took bus on my way to school, one of my favorite thing was observing what other people were doing. i noticed most of them were texting and playing their i-touch. The first time when i took RTS, my impression about Americans are most of them are technology slaves.
My 6-year-old likes to watch a show on Nickelodeon called iCarly, which is about a girl who has a popular webcast. This clip reminded me of a recent episode where she's sending text messages using only her toes. Think of all the time I could save if I could do that while typing on my laptop!
http://www.accessgrid.org/ Here is the link and a basic Access Grid Setup. Your Digital Culture Word for the DAY: TELEPRESENCE. EVERYONE please google, research, copy/paste what you can find about the idea of telepresence and then place it in a comment to this post. I'll explain this more on wednesday!
Ascott argues that in art, just as in science, an observer is now always a participant because the observing process alters the art itself. This is very similar to a chemistry term called the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle which states that it is impossible to know both the position and momentum of any given particle since the observation process alters the very momentum of the particle. Thinking about how the human eye observes anything helped me understand this; to view anything, the eye needs to collect light that is reflected off an object. When the object is as small as a particle, this particle is affected by the light particles, or photons. These photons alter the trajectory of the particle when they bounce off into the human eye. So therefore, by the time the eye gets around to seeing a particle, that particle is already moving in a new direction, making it impossible to know both the position and movement direction of any particle at the same time. Now all that science babb...
ha! i agree that it is pretty real. when i took bus on my way to school, one of my favorite thing was observing what other people were doing. i noticed most of them were texting and playing their i-touch. The first time when i took RTS, my impression about Americans are most of them are technology slaves.
ReplyDeleteMy 6-year-old likes to watch a show on Nickelodeon called iCarly, which is about a girl who has a popular webcast. This clip reminded me of a recent episode where she's sending text messages using only her toes. Think of all the time I could save if I could do that while typing on my laptop!
ReplyDeletei don't like living in this way. I will feel like i am going to be killed by surrouned radiation.
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