QUESTIONS FOR DAI227 WEEK 6 LECTURE
1) Steve Mann describes his wearable computer invention as a form of cyborg blogging for one person (fill in the blank)
(see youtube link to Mann interview in web resource page)
2) Steve Mann's concept of opposing camera surveillance with "Sousveillance" is described as a form of “reflectionism”. What is meant by this? To mirror and confron bureaucratic organization. meaning to do the same thing to them as they are doing to the public.
(in ReadingsF)
3) In the section of "Sousveillance" called "Performance Two" Steve Mann describes how wearing his concealed device becomes more complex when used in what type of spaces? It becomes more complex In public places such as a shopping mall, it becomes semi complex as security would tend to be watching him. The more places he goes with camera the more often he is being watch.
4) The final paragraph sums up what Mann considers the benefits of "sousveillance" and "coveillance". What are they? Sousveillance It is a conceptual framework of self-empowerment in opposition to modern technolog and surveillance through a series of performances. Coveillance is the data collected with interactions in their daily lives.
(ReadingsF)
5) In William J Mitchell's 1995 book "City of Bits" in the chapter "Cyborg Citizens", he puts forth the idea that electronic organs as they shrink and become more part of the body will eventually resemble what types of familiar items? They will become more of clothing - soft wearables that conform to the contours of our bodies and they have to be fitted for each person
(ReadingsF)
6) From the same book/chapter, list two of the things that a vehicle that 'knows where it is' might afford the driver & passengers. The GPS on the car that gets its information from you and can also be a tour guide as it can pull up information highlights of the area. Artificial intelligence that knows where the car is heading and is able to drive itself
(ReadingsF)
7) Mitchell tells the story of Samuel Morse's first Washington-to-Baltimore telegraph message. What was it? "What hath God wrought?"
(ReadingsF)
8) Donna Harroway in "A Cyborg Manifesto" argues that women should take the "battle to the border". What does she say are the stakes in this border war? territories of production, reproduction, and imagination.
(in ReadingsF)
9) Harroway posits the notion that:
"We require regeneration, not rebirth, and the possibilities for our reconstitution include the utopian dream"
What is this dream?
(in ReadingsF)
10) Many have argued that 'we are already cyborgs' as we use devices such as glasses to improve our vision, bikes to extend the mobility function of our legs/bodies etc, computers and networks to extend the nervous system etc. What do you think? Are we cyborgs?
to me my idea of what a cyborgs are is a combination between man and machine that is put together as one like how they would show it in movies and tv’s such as the Terminator, it’s a form of a man but it is completely robot. A robot mind with a human flesh.
1) Steve Mann describes his wearable computer invention as a form of cyborg blogging for one person (fill in the blank)
(see youtube link to Mann interview in web resource page)
2) Steve Mann's concept of opposing camera surveillance with "Sousveillance" is described as a form of “reflectionism”. What is meant by this? To mirror and confron bureaucratic organization. meaning to do the same thing to them as they are doing to the public.
(in ReadingsF)
3) In the section of "Sousveillance" called "Performance Two" Steve Mann describes how wearing his concealed device becomes more complex when used in what type of spaces? It becomes more complex In public places such as a shopping mall, it becomes semi complex as security would tend to be watching him. The more places he goes with camera the more often he is being watch.
4) The final paragraph sums up what Mann considers the benefits of "sousveillance" and "coveillance". What are they? Sousveillance It is a conceptual framework of self-empowerment in opposition to modern technolog and surveillance through a series of performances. Coveillance is the data collected with interactions in their daily lives.
(ReadingsF)
5) In William J Mitchell's 1995 book "City of Bits" in the chapter "Cyborg Citizens", he puts forth the idea that electronic organs as they shrink and become more part of the body will eventually resemble what types of familiar items? They will become more of clothing - soft wearables that conform to the contours of our bodies and they have to be fitted for each person
(ReadingsF)
6) From the same book/chapter, list two of the things that a vehicle that 'knows where it is' might afford the driver & passengers. The GPS on the car that gets its information from you and can also be a tour guide as it can pull up information highlights of the area. Artificial intelligence that knows where the car is heading and is able to drive itself
(ReadingsF)
7) Mitchell tells the story of Samuel Morse's first Washington-to-Baltimore telegraph message. What was it? "What hath God wrought?"
(ReadingsF)
8) Donna Harroway in "A Cyborg Manifesto" argues that women should take the "battle to the border". What does she say are the stakes in this border war? territories of production, reproduction, and imagination.
(in ReadingsF)
9) Harroway posits the notion that:
"We require regeneration, not rebirth, and the possibilities for our reconstitution include the utopian dream"
What is this dream?
(in ReadingsF)
10) Many have argued that 'we are already cyborgs' as we use devices such as glasses to improve our vision, bikes to extend the mobility function of our legs/bodies etc, computers and networks to extend the nervous system etc. What do you think? Are we cyborgs?
to me my idea of what a cyborgs are is a combination between man and machine that is put together as one like how they would show it in movies and tv’s such as the Terminator, it’s a form of a man but it is completely robot. A robot mind with a human flesh.
(one paragraph)
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