I came across this article about a guy on vacation in Paris and wearing his digital enhanced eye glasses. Employee's were concerned about him violating privacy of them and patrons of the restaurant. I guess if he needs the glasses to see, let him have it. But I guess that's not the case.
I recently ordered a free card reader from one of the co-founders of Twitter Jack Dorsey, the reason being that I'm a music producer and one of my friends told me about this card reader to help me start expanding my clientele. It's annoying to have to make out a check, go to the bank, if you are right there ready to give something they want. I think this is an awesome technology and am excited about using it. I also saw this video of Jack doing an interview with Charlie Rose and he said something that I really admire about how he feels technology should be, aside from having it pushed to you, "The best technology reminds us of our humanness" and hopefully new technology continues to do so
A few weeks ago I was watching Death Race 2, a prequel-sequel to a good movie with Jason Statham. The movie is about a dangerous car race that prisoners take part in to win their freedom from prison. Death Race to shows how a famous race is created. His creation involves death so to say and the director of the movie compared him to Mary Shelly's Frankenstein. I don't think he's that much relatable, but what do you think?
So while researching for class I came across something when I was on wired.com: calm.com. The blogger mention how it reminded them of soma which is the alcoholic but has no effect drug in Brave New Word. It's an ok experience as far as being calmed down, but there is a cricket that makes noise the whole time and somehow I feel I was conditioned to want to kill it.
I heard of Julian Assange around the time he was either made famous for Wiki-leaks or when he got arrested. I don't remember which scenario I started to know about him on a regular basis, but Saturday Night Live cast member Bill Hader's impressions of Julian made me more aware of who he was, if not what he exactly does. After seeing a video from TED.com in class, I have some new found respect for Assange. Leaking information that comes from whistle blowers isn't a crime and all, if most, information is legitimate to release. The only leak that I question is the one of the US soldiers laughing at the death they witness on a daily basis. Some say its conditioning or that they have no human decency, but I just say, tell the truth about the situation. Was there laughing taken out of context or are they legitimate jar heads, as really messed up army men are called.
Anyway, below is a video of a hilarious Bill Hader skit as Julian Assange.
The documentary that was introduced row my class this passed week (if my spelling of its is right)"Malancholy" was not that bad of a story, a person loses their memory and tries to put the pieces back together. Ofcourse you think if someone would go to people they knew and asked questions and try to live with the fact that they have to learn things about a person they used to already know. The person in the documentary kind of did this, but created an imaginary world to help cope with things in the process that weren't going right. the last thing this person could have done, is a certain point be unsatisfied with their situation and take their own life. It's hard to say what would happen, but how many people do you know that lost their memory or have you ever lost yours? We as individuals strive for the best life possible, with all the things wrong in the world we just want a "Life, just right".
After reading "Brave New World" the first thing I
thought of the conditioning that the Director of Hatcheries and Conditioning
(D.H.C.) showed the new students to his (company/school not totally sure yet)
and immediately thought of those kids looking like the above picture. It's
scary to me, not as much visually as it does mentally. The prejudice that the
creators had (probably because the era they were doing this), they passed on to
the creations and/or altered the creations prejudice. When we in our time, successfully
clone a human, will we be able to do this and will we? Will robots be
programmed like this with some prejudice that aspect of the machine we wouldn't
like? This is the New "Brave New World" we're in.
