6 whats next
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LIVING IN A DIGITAL WORLDWhat’s next?
Information overload
Information coming at us from all directions
Information overload: Internet Web holds info for ready retrieval when you need it! You simply need to keep a record of WHERE the information is!
• Use your FAVORITES list• Use FOLDERS within your favorites list and
Categorize by what makes sense to you• hobbies• health• travel• weather
Information overload: Internet You might want to keep a notebook where you write the URLs
of websites you want to remember Be sure to write some key words in addition to the http:// address
Information overload: General life Turn off the TV and read a book! Turn off your cell phone when driving.
Studies say you are 5 to 12 times more likely to have an accident while talking on the phone (even if you have a hands-free headset)! And, you are 23 times more likely to have an accident texting while driving!
Turn off your cell phone at movies, theatre, dinner, etc.
Most importantly, prioritize.Your time and attention are your most precious “commodities”.
Information overload: Multi-tasking Living Faster: Split-focus PBS Frontline’s Digital nation (2/2010)
Stanford Study of Multi-Tasking Digital Nation (2/2010)
Information overload: “Going viral” When links to online videos
are e-mailed and forwarded, they are said to have “gone viral”
Often numbers of views outnumber views of traditional media, such as network news
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How do you manage “information overload”?
Virtual reality
Immersive, 3D environment Second Life
Internet’s largest user-created, 3D virtual community
Virtual reality
The avatar effect PBS Frontline’s Digital Nation (2/2010)
Assistive Technology
Technology that’s used to helpsomeone overcome adisability
Alliance for Technology Access Assistive Technology: Opening Doors to Independence video
Robotics
The Tech Museum www.usfirst.org robotics.nasa.gov
Robotics Japanese robot with very realistic facial expressions
http://www.physorg.com/news189528493.html http://www.geekosystem.com/japanese-robot-with-incredibly-realistic-fac
ial-expressions/
Robotics Big Dog
Boston Dynamics “Dedicated to the art and Science of How Things Move” Little Dog, RHex, Rise, Squishbot
Remote-Control War Taking out the taliban – home for dinner
PBS Frontline’s Digital Nation (2/2010) “Unmanned Aerial Vehicles are credited with killing 11 of Al Qaeda's
top 20 leaders in Pakistan.”The New York Times, June 2009
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What are your thoughts about virtual reality? What do you think about robots?
Would you be comfortable having a robotic nurse tending to you in a hospital?
Would you be comfortable riding in a remote-control vehicle?
How do you feel about remote-control war? Does it change how inclined a country might be to enter
a war if their soldiers aren’t at any physical risk?
Digital divide http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_divide Bridge the Digital Divide
http://www.bridgethedigitaldivide.com/ Internet World Stats
http://www.internetworldstats.com/stats.htm
Digital divide OLPC (One Laptop Per Child) Project
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Home http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Deployments
Technology’s impact on society… “ I doubt that the 21st century will pose problems for us that are more
stunning, disorienting, or complex than those we faced in [the 20th] century or the 19th, 18th, 17th, or for that matter, any of the centuries before that.”
“The human dilemma is as it has always been, and it is a delusion to believe that the technological changes of our era have rendered irrelevant the wisdom of the ages and the sages.” Neil Postman
Technology’s impact on society… “ In the next millennium we will find we are talking as much or more with
machines than we are with humans. What seems to trouble people most is their self-consciousness about talking to inanimate objects.”
Nicholas Negroponte in Being Digital
“I have no doubt we can adapt ourselves to talking much more to machines than to people. We may even come to prefer it. But adaptation ought not to be equated with sanity.” Neil Postman in Six Questions
Technology’s impact on society… According to Neil Postman there are six important questions we need to
keep in mind as society develops technology:1. What is the problem?2. Whose problem is it?3. What new problems will be created by solving an old one?4. What people and institutions will be most seriously harmed?5. What changes in language are occurring?6. What new sources of economic and political power will emerge?
“Its doubtful that you could think of any single technology that did not generate new problems as a result of its having solved an old problem.Of course, it’s sometimes very difficult to know what new problems will arise as a result of the technological solution.” Neil Postman
Conclusion
Please e-mail me your thoughts, comments, questions, concerns. I look forward to corresponding with you!
Sharon Gray [email protected]
Sources Staying Sane in a Technological Society: Six questions in search of an answer by Neil Postman Being Digital by Nicholas Negroponte PBS Frontline’s Digital Nation (2/2010)
Living Faster: Split-focus Stanford Study of Multi-Tasking The avatar effect Taking out the taliban – home for dinner
Susan Boyle on YouTube Alliance for Technology Access
Assistive Technology: Opening Doors to Independence video Robots
Living with (Robots (Honda) http://www.physorg.com/news189528493.html http://www.geekosystem.com/japanese-robot-with-incredibly-realistic-facial-expressions/
Digital Divide Bridge the Digital Divide http://www.bridgethedigitaldivide.com/ Internet World Stats http://www.internetworldstats.com/stats.htm http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Home http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Deployments http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_divide