ICT 300 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Bread Crumbs, Killer Application
1 Sep 2018
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We really didn"t need to keep computers busy. It is as though we have become their killer app (p. 279) We are exhausted by the pressure of performance, but online we easily find company. We enjoy making connections but we hardly ever keep each other"s full attention. We compromise our privacy because we like what the internet knows about us. We work from home, but our work bleeds into our private lives until we can barely discern the boundaries between them (p. 280) The ties we form through the internet are not, in the end, the ties that bind (p. 280) We go online because we are busy but end up spending more time with technology and less with each other (p. 281) Roboticists present the idea that as our population ages, there will not be enough people to take care of our human needs, and therefore, as a companion, a sociable robot would be better than nothing (p. 281)
