Ideas into reality

What is the future to come of technology in the world, are we already aware of what is to look forward to through cartoons and futuristic movies. New ideas are what interest us from Superman and wishing you can fly to Star Trek and hoping to be alive when it happens. Is the production of film going to be the production on our life?

The first kind of futuristic cartoon for everyone was The Jetsons and the robot maid, the hover cars, plastic clothes, floating buildings. What's wrong with being on the ground, why should we float, is there exercise or just some sort of fat suction every time you gain a pound. There are realistic futures and just pure fantasies. This was set in 2062 so how far are we from this future?

It's always good to write a story not so far from your won experience or even that it draws from someone else's, but the imagination makes great movies. With the millions of movies about which one is in the right path; I think its going to be Pixar’s cartoon Wall-E. This is one of my favourite movies in the products and the fact that no one really speaks for the most part of the movie but this story line is what I feel if we carry on making rubbish the world will have to end and humans will have to leave to repair it. I think we just going be fat and live one with the sofa.

  

The worst out come of the future besides aliens and the world blowing up is if our body reproduction organs decides to fail, this was the idea for film Children of Men. The future of even nature stopping and life in Britain being so terrible is the mad fait that we could be waiting for.

The most current film for the future that I recently watched was Limitless and the clear pill that makes a human access 100% of the brain, this future is probably already here. 

All of these movies I have chosen are the destructive I feel that we destroy Earth because of all the materials being used the world has to end. The more materials to make this spaceship and creating piles of garage will destroy us and seems more realistic than Fifth Element.

         futureforall is the expected future to come for many things to come.

open source...freebies?

As a journalist you have to get your source from somewhere and whichever one is open, free and easiest to get with the same credibility is the one more expensive, round the world trip to Austria and back is not the one we go for. Many people like to count the pennies but they seem to make an exception with technology. It’s about the name of the label. 

 “You can’t have Reebok trainers; you have to have the Air Max 90 Nike, if you don’t your just not cool”. It is all a branding scheme and a whirlpool of money that just becomes a vortex of electricity. This was Windows Bill Gates might invention and now its Apple Steve Jobs millennium invention, that has created a power brand and a whole lot of money. The way he gets money is that the source has to come from Apple otherwise the device just doesn’t accept it; making the customer buy just Apple products. Like the iPod it only recognising one computer otherwise you have to delete everything if you want to change PC’s. That why he created the Apple store

Closed source is what it is and even to make applications (apps) the maker has a yearly sub fee for even developing it. Unlike the Android which is cheaper, it is free to distribute, it can be found on any website. Many people think like me, which means there are more users, but more likely to have more dodgy stuff and bad quality apps which means it could carry viruses. But who really wants to pay? I remember when MSN messenger was at its height of communication and they decided they wanted to make their members pay to use MSN. The new open source was Myspace and MSN had a big drought ‘whether it was a rumour or not’.

“As the majority of hobbyists must be aware, most of you steal your software. Hardware must be paid for, but software is something to share. Who cares if the people who worked on it get paid?”

                                                                                Bill Gates, 1976
(Click the link above and how Windows has become so big through the internet, from 1976 to 2011)

This was a letter to all the hobbyists but it was a rhetorical question that answer wanted to be ‘yes’. It could be the hackers but it’s the free in freedom that makes it for everyone. This could mean that we are all hackers, everyone that can access the internet. But truly without the internet is there an open source?

Just the knowledge that they will always be a brand on top, but whether people can get the information closed or open they will always get it. open sources are like simply talking to people,  instead of buying the book go to the library, whether getting around getting it from a judge or a witness or iTunes or Mp3 converter. Up to the person and how much they can take off the closed source.

Listen to O'Reilly and  Stallman

surveillance

Who is regulating all this information?

Being watched and scoped in the 21^st century has become normal, seeing people and watching them. It is all a conspiracy; a big fat Prison Break storyline with a messed up reason and big deeper meanings. The collection of data from online pop-ups to your passport is a general way for the government to find out who you are; making it only accessible through them to enter anywhere.

RFID tags is an identity card is used so you can access into places. Most work places and institutions have these for their staff or students. Monitoring where they are going but there are better reason than just getting into the library!

Transport for London (TFL) has devised the oyster card from 2006 and has developed the forms and identity of those that own one, but why! I thought it was just a device that holds money and travel cards: hear my conspiracy!

 The bus isn’t £2 for any reason; they want you to get an oyster card; just because it’s cheaper? If you think about it they cut the prices in half so that they can get your name, address, age, race, number, nationality, normal routes and journeys on one little card. The Government is a sly conspiracy, that why I hate ticket booths! I have told them to put money on, and they want to check my history, but why, you’re just TFL Officers! Oyster is in your hand.

NI number is your identification card, without this you can't get around as an adult in Britain.  Without your passport you can’t get out, without your Pin numbers you can’t get money, without your Clubcard you can’t get a discount etc. 

The visuals RFID are just the Big Brother camera and even in 1948 the author of the book 1984 got the future correct in his book about the big camera in the sky. But if it only for our safety, everyone isn’t safe because within your home someone is watching you.Even through nanny cams or baby monitor everyone signal can get transmitted somewhere else.

This song is from one of my favourite artist and she explains the surveillance in America through every lyric and how crazy being watched has become.

Globalization

The equation of globalization in the day and age has rapidly simplified, after Einstein’s great equation to just this easy formula:

Society + Geographical x Democratic-Culture =Technology?

Half the world has this equation and the other has no way to even understand.  Is that half missing out the joys of the equation?

The last tribe to be found was this February in the Amazon, they have never seen cameras, helicopters (up close) they were completed isolated from the world and was fine with it. Knowing their culture will change at these new discoverers as they become discovered themselves.  Most people believe technology comes with society, like New York Time Square where the millions of LED lights, bulbs, TV screen are there for everyone. Someone living in Long Island might not own anything about computers or big Tv screens and they have a good income.

Globalization isn’t so easily divided from 2^nd to 3^rd world countries but rather tribe, village, county, town and city. A fact is that everyone in the city owns technology or has good use of it. Poor parents might know that homework isn’t just about handwriting but typewriting but that city would have a library that has public use. Unlike a Kenyan village that might have one telephone or mobile between 50 people and a hospital 4 hours away; even simple globalisation of health is divided by technology.  These people would be 10 years behind technology if they don’t steal it from a tourist!

The majorly about who is in power and how they decided how to use their power. Example African country Sudan has political issues and instead of giving children education or medicine for diseases they give them guns. It could be the government faults, not saying technology is the answer but you can’t just throw a rabbit a bone; give the country what they need first. The UK has the power and the population has the right because of tax to ask more from the government.

Greece has lost its touch as coliseums become clubs and togas are just white cloths. I feel because of technology the who world is becoming western, notice that those who have no contact like the Amazonian tribe are true to their culture, rather to China who is still dying to try hold on to their great culture. It has all been washed down slowly as the growth of tech continues.

  Technology commences growth and as it grows, it is all about who has what! (High School all over) “You can’t have Reebok trainers you have to have the Air Max 90 Nike, if you don’t your just not cool”. It is all a branding scheme and a whirlpool of money that just becomes a vortex of electricity.

Hi-tech guys went out camping and packed over dinners.

Guy 1: We don’t really need a stove; give me gas pump and a lighter.

Guy 2: No, give me gamma rays in a box....                                                    

Guy 1: That’s the microwave, silly.

Guy 3: We might as well make a time machine and go back to the ice age and watch what they did, we could never make fire come out of wood!

Because of globalization the simplest things for people have now got complicated without the magic button.

Experience the real world; it’s just a game!

The reality of the gaming conditions

Within the Magic Circle you are allowed to do as you wish. It is only a game, is the actions you do in a game your actual personality in reality. This is for all those hackers, team killers, grievers and general cheats; but are you all snakes and thieves in reality?( I wished I had a discussion board.)  Flux balance is never resorted because there will always be a person to spoil the game, bending the rules.

These people disrupt the game world and this magic circle. Hackers are usually money objected and don’t do it within games unless something is in it for them.

 This guy is the hacker of Prison Break season 4, he is a criminal and has a device stealing information on hardware devices from 2 metres away. He worked with the leaders of the team but snaked them for money, and died because of it. Smart but Greedy!

 Aimbots and wall hackers are like this, they can get full access into the game and everything because they see most things become translucent to them, having all the power. The actions of a hacker within the real world is illegal because they are alliterating the game without being a creator, they are already labelled-Boys! They use the games art work to their advantage making good cheaters.

For team killers this would be converted as backstabbers; those who enjoy disrupting the system and spoiling the game, for everyone. Their intention aren’t usually by accident, I feel these people are anti-sociable. Don’t know how to communicate and if something I would have to study on, because what is the advantage they get? Well, no illegal activity and it sure doesn’t get into your player into the game any further just pure shit stirrers. Objectives change become a doctor in real life can make you a murder in the game world.Irony!

Grievers are those who are just snakes, and this is the closest characteristic values that will share in the magic circle, boxing ring, football pitch, chess board and just normal day. People seem to bring their exact actions into the environment created. 

(If I am wrong- do tell) the reason for this blog is to see if being a snake, shit stirrer or cheater , affects your real life, and if the games is that important why take the fastest and easiest route. If you prefer the game life why not stay in it longer? If it’s just a game, this whole Digital Culture thing could implode inside out, why do you make avatar that sound and look similar you? These little things I can’t answer it will just be a rhetorical blog. But is it just a game; or being a spoilsport?

Steve Johnson great words -Everything good is bad for you!

games

WHAT KEEPS SOMEONE PLAYING?

As a child, games where you life; being apply to use your imagination making up the area, rules, and action as you go. The change has begun when you get older, even playing with board and card games there are sets of rules. But do we ever abide by them if we want to play?

The reason for games (which I play) is usually for the challenge and because I was bored, but once you start playing it gets so intense that you just have so much fun with the people around you. It the social aspect that draws me in. That board game becomes that ‘magic circle’ and the people involved become your competition. By playing video games the magic circle is just between the player and the screen; mostly without any light pauses or interaction, just having their object.

But what makes the game fun?

Monopoly gives the players that trust and I can say that I am a spoilt-sport always wanting to be the banker but no one knows (but I am different from the theorist Salen and Zimmerman definition.)I cheat on a sly usually for a laugh, but within the gaming world it is a very serious view. The rules of the game change to the surface like the change of the traditional game to the online version. Does it still have that fun impact as if you were in the magic circle of someone’s living room?

Paida is when the rules change as you go; the wild free form and improvisation e.g. Hide &Seek is finding a new places and able to change you position once you don’t get caught.

Ludus is being aware of the rules, and having to abide by them but it changes on the surface e.g. Blackjack rules in a casino is different to a no money game, or Boxing in a ring to street fighting.

I prefer paida just because I never liked to be told what to do. This is why video games don’t get me, the rules have to be followed, and each button has an action and control and cannot be changed. This doesn’t make it fun! The only video game I can play is Street Fighter and Super Mario; these are the ideology of Roger Caillois from his book Man play games and what necessary for a successful game.

Agon means the competition, what prize you achieve whether if its points or just pride of betting others.

Alea is the chances you are allowed to have and how many lives you can use, some games you can die endless but it doesn’t create a challenge.

Mimany is the masks and new characters you can play

Ilinx is the vertigo (is like Mario Kart when you get hit and you spin out of control and you can’t do anything about it till you stop.)

None the less the reason games should be played is for fun, challenge, good narrative, objective and how you interact. However that happens you’re the only person that will keep playing.

hypertext

Does the hard back book matter?

The only way people could communicate on earth was through animate pictures, then language came into use with skilful writing, the only purpose of writing now is through text typing. Language has been the meaning of my life and is important to most humans in telling stories or making interesting stories keeping the book alive.

Writing and reading is a personal pleasure of mine through my mother’s personal library full of encyclopaedias, novels, biography, educational books, text books, (she’s a teacher) and my collection of magazines. I have always loved the look of my collection, the age, the colours, the different texts and images, has totally been wiped away with the lazy generation of a 290g Kindle. It takes the word minimalism to another level just needing a conventional chair;and don’t  even really need the table! These inventions are the e-readers- iPad, Sony Reader, Kindle, nook , Logic Que.

The collection of a great CD’s or movies are just epic. Going through someone home and see their personality its just like a perfume bottle collection just because the fragrance is finish doesn’t mean the bottle isn’t pretty. Everyone horde’s!

This e-reader of buying books online and keeping on one flat book is supposedly better than physically turning the page. The first time I read (well half a novel)on my phone, I just couldn’t do it. Scrolling down, every three words got annoying and the change of colour on the bright white screen didn’t help.

Cons

• ·         smaller saves space, lighter to carry

• ·         Having to charge it and more money, target of a thief, losing books by author

Pros

• ·          sight smell, cost, book stores, borrowing, cheaper, makes you look smart

• ·         Economical not good but it’s been around too long to notice

Hyper text has changed the meaning of literature from Aristotle simple matter of beginning, middle and end. Different theorists have different ways in the story structure and what belongs in a normal story (which is a representation of real life.) Even Propp’s list of characters is in all great stories and always will be in a great story. The natural structure of the simple nursery writing had evolved to Todorov’s Equilibrium, disequilibrium and new equilibrium breaking up the narrative.
Even though the story stays the same on the e-reader using the web can evolve the story. Games usually make the player go in one certain path, where as Heavy Rain the user has the option each time to make a new path, creating a whole different story. As I don't know much about games, this is a writer view on the game and its plots. But I find the plot brilliant in terms of a story and how it never ends; it just won three video game Bafta for its plot. This idea for a never ending story. Thumbs up to a good story line.

George Landow has a point made in 1989, “Designers of hypertext and hypermedia materials confront two related problems, the first of which is how to indicate the destination of links, and the second, how to welcome the user on arrival at that destination. Drawing upon the analogy of travel, one can say that the first problem concerns exit or departure information, and the second, arrival or entrance information.”

The web makes the narrative non-linear as it doesn’t have to be read or put together in the order to make sense. Barthes stated that the birth of the reader becomes the death of the author even with his semiotics codes and enigma in the 1950’s he understood how the evolution would change the new audience. 

The end of the book will not change but the lazy mind of the reader (evolving) will stop the imagination of the people, being too lazy to make their own story. The Truman Show film is a metaphor for the media and how instead of imagining a story, following a subject through is life and the story become real and never ending. This is includes hypertext and the media, and I feel that old-fashion can be good; stories can stay the same, because great text have no ending. The methods of how we read the story has change but can hypertext but the stop of the imaginative author.