ENG 1100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Unforgotten, Loopt, Etha Engomis

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: English
• Course: ENG 1100
• Professor: Mel Sexton

Document Summary

Kevin slavin is cofounder and managing director of. Area/code, a company that creates cross-media games and entertainment. in just a few yearv we"ll see the first generation of adults whose every breath has been drawn on the grid. A generation for whom every key moment (for example, birth) has been docu- mented and distributed globally. Not just the key moments, of course, but also the most banal: eating pasta, missing the train, having a bad day at the office. These ski trips and puppies are not simply happening, they are becoming data, building up the global database of distrib- uted memories. They are networked digital photos three billion on flickr, ten billion on facebook. They were blog posts, and now they are tweets, too (a billion in eighteen months). Further, more and more of our traces will be passive or semi- passive. Consider loopt, which allows us to track ourselves and our friends with gps (global positioning system).