SCLG2623 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Ubiquitous Computing, Mark Weiser, Deterritorialization
1 Dec 2018
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Week 12: 9 april: media, culture, and infrastructure. Readings (20): miller, part ii: a: the invention of fasbook (158-163); heather horst, aesthetics of the. Infrastructure to agori sms to data (units for morsels of information-allow the gov to make decisions and corporations. Data is telling us where the world is going not just what"s going on in the world-ibm. What are we to data and data to us?-relationship to data and to us. Think of data as a medium or as a form of media. Mark weiser computer for the 21th century -ubiquitous computing names the third wave in computing, just now beginning. First were mainframes each shared by lots of people. Now we are in the personal computing era, person and machine, staring uneasily at each other across the desktop. Next comes ubiquitous computing or the age of calm technology, when technology recedes into the background of our lives the most profound technologies are those they can disappear.
