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My inspiration came from the popular TV show Doctor Who, where the main character called the doctor is a space time traveler where he goes in search for anomalies in different time and tries to fix them before the history of the universe changes.  In this scenario I have 8 different locations with bread crumb trails showing the path of where to go next. Eight different stages with their own situation that would eventually come together in the last stage.

I made place to be a map stage where one part of the area is a stage to start the game, just like how Super Mario Brothers where they would have an overhead map of the world and each area is a stage.  This map that i have made more for a stage selection game where one area contains a side scrolling game.  each stage can contain different themes as i indicated it with different object in the filed, for example i have put a T-Rex that would indicate its a dinosaur stage, and the yellow balls would indicate where the next stage is and your progress in the game. 

Week 4


1) According to the text "Remediation" the author uses the phrase (in relation to Hollywood's use of computer graphics)
"remediation operates in both directions" - what is meant by this?

The diversity is even greater for hypermediacy, which always offer a number of reactions to the contemporary logic of immediacy. Remediation always operates under the current cultural assumptions about immediacy and hypermediacy.

2) What does Michael Benedikt, author of "Cyberspace the First Steps" introduction argue had happened to modern city by the late 60s, having become more than 'a collection of buildings and streets'?

The city became a center of communication, storage and transportation services

3) In his short story "Skinner's Room" William Gibson describes how Skinner watches a tiny portable 'pop-up' TV set. What can skinner no longer remember? (remediation in relation to television as an idea is neatly summed up in this sentance!)

He can't remember when he ceased to be able to distinguish commercials from programming.

4) Author of the famous pamphlet "Culture Jamming" Mark Dery paraphrases Umberto Eco and his phrase "semiological guerrilla warfare". What does this mean?

the freedom to read it in a different way

to try and see it or interoperate the reading in many ways other than what is put on the screen

5) From Mark Dery's pamphlet, briefly describe "Subtervising"

it is a form of cultural jamming. Like to block radar

week 3

1) In Paulina Boorsooks Book "Cyberselfish" she contrasts the development of technologies that were group efforts and thus stand in stark contrast to the myth of the lone 'hero' entrepreneur. Name two such more group-based technologies. (Under the heading "Closer to the Machine")

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a)   a)   Medical Buddha

b)   b)   Politically Correct Camp

2) In the section labelled "Human, Too Human" Boosook describes one type of technolibertarian - the "Extropians". What do extropians want or yearn for?

        

3) In her film BIT PLANE, Natalie Jeremijenko describes Doug Englebart as being a pioneer - of what? (view film via VIMEO link in separate post)

         a pioneer of PERSONAL COMPUTING

4) In "Silicon Valley Mystery House" writer Langdon Winner compares the Silicon Valley to the Winchester Mystery House. In what way does he consider them similar?

          they were the same as becoming a tourist spot for their architectural structurs

5) In Langdon Winner's essay "Silicon Valley Mystery House" he describes East Palo Alto as a very different kind of place from areas such as upscale Stanford and downtown Palo Alto. What type of area is East Palo alto, "just across highway 101"?

They said that Palo Alto is more like Hollywood everyone is in show business, everyone comes there to try to make it by showing off flashy products

6) In her Processed World article "The Disappeared of Silicon Valley" Paulina Boorsook's "Deep Throat" (inside information source) describes some unpleasant realities of most Silicon Valley startups and how they end up. List two.

There were shortage of houses

He left graduate school to fund his ideas but it didn’t work out in the end and he had to spend years to to pay his debt befor he returned to school

This, from an undergraduate,

7) What is the Long Now foundation and why was it formed?

         As pulled from the website’s ABOUT: ”The Long Now Foundation was established in 01996* to develop the Clock and Library projects, as well as to become the seed of a very long-term cultural institution. The Long Now Foundation hopes to provide counterpoint to today's "faster/cheaper" mindset and promote "slower/better" thinking. We hope to creatively foster responsibility in the framework of the next 10,000 years.”

8) In the documentary DOCUMENTARY - SILICON VALLEY - A HUNDRED YEAR RENAISSANCE (1997) Steve Jobs describes the joy of successfully making "blue boxes" which let he and his friends make free phone calls. What aspect of this experience does he say was so important to the creation of Apple computer?

         Steve Jobs says that the aspect of this experience was “the confidence to do such a thing, but as well as the sense of magic to influence the world. If it wasn’t for the blue box experience there would be no Apple.”

9) List three aspects of the work of the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) - (see the "Our Work" section of their website)

10) According to Richard Stallman's website, what is his status in relation to the social media site Facebook?

He suggest people to not support it by using it, that it’s unreliable when it comes to doing it’s task that it was made to do. It’s not being the social network of sharing information without error, or being as friendly exaggerating with it’s friend count of labeling yourself lonely. It’s becoming more of the anti-privacy and invading your life and friends. Overall, a bad idea to collaborate with Facebook let alone interacting 

week 1

1.  It would calculate tables and would also print out the answer so there wouldn’t be any errors, the analytical engine is also reprogrammable by using punch cards.

2.  She was called the first computer programmer, and an interpreter for the analytical engin

3.  By people disconnecting weirs and reattaching them in different order to do different task

4.  The use of 18,000 vacuum tubes to help the ENIAC perform faster

5.  They used binary system because it was the simplest form, on or off which the numbers goes from zeros and ones

6.  UNIVAC was shown in television and gave much publicity by trying to predict the 1952 elections.  After its debut it starts becomes more popular over the years.

7.  Lorenz was there to crack the natzi codes but was too slow and so they build the colossus

8.  He called them the universal machine

9.  I was ten years old when I first started using a home computer and used the computer for entertainment purposes by playing games and used little of that time to use it for school work.  At that time the internet was just coming in and so I was using the internet to use as another form of entertainment and also able to chat people from greater distance. 

10.  A personal computer are very restricted in terms of what they can do, if they weren’t restricted the limit of what a computer can do is limitless.  They are mostly used for basic home uses such as emails, computer games, entertainment. Etc.  If the computer weren’t restricted they can be programmers artificial inelegance and even be able to program operating system.

10) How restricted do you think computers are in terms of what they can do compared to how they are most often used?