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.

Folksonomies (storage) and tagging

Has meta-data actually helped?

The general way to collection information has ceased from having to categorize by subject matter and then alphabetical filed. The internet has created a different form of categorizing, when it comes to social networks like Flickr, Tumblr and Twitter. Folksonomies and taxonomies is the new storage structure but for technology it could never be done.

Online storage has become a problem with sites that the user has the control to create the way the information is stored. Being able to tag people to this that have no connection to it; some pictures might be your leg and strand of your hair which is connected. Something’s that could be approved as random tagging is your mother, boyfriend or cat, because it has a straight connection. Tagging someone name into an update or link that has a benefit to that person, but silly pictures or events in Shanghai's has a complete irrelevance. This is the meaning of folksonomy; a total irrelevant way in a database. One thing I do like is the keywords on Facebook like typing in ‘Brighton’ and your friends that recently mentioned that word, will come up. This is how the search engine begins.

Google has the same ranking system which works well with one keyword but a more words cause problems. Instead of following the question exactly, it takes the words from different paragraphs in a site and just highlights the words even though there plenty of...  The problem when making a database is how general it has become like Pink Panther and the words would be pink, panther, cat, cartoon, yellow eyes, tail etc. YouTube can sort who it was made by, have a time frame of when it was uploaded to narrow down the search. 

Taxonomies have a rigid structure and which can’t be changed and facts and categorising stays the same. With websites things are set in a plan; fashion shows would be under fashion and beauty, not a scattered mess. Folksonomy are creative, but unreliable and creates an overload; tagging in blogs is important. I could tag to this post metadata, tagging, Facebook, totally brilliant which is my idea of how I would sum up this blog post. It’s being able to see the bigger picture and going beyond the normal collection of the human mind, which is the same for hash tags on Twitter.

This storage system in technology would have no point making life so much harder. This encrypted database would have no clue how things would work. As the user, I can make files to my use, but what the phone has filed I cannot change the filing. Example would be trying to store a MMS in Pictures just because it link doesn’t mean it will work.

This idea will never become redundant because it has a wider value on the internet, because it’s too big of a place to organise.  Just have to work with the storage plan; it isn’t Big Yellow.

snog, marry avoid...Immersion?

Immersion

What fake and real, is everything cloned?

It is whether gamers become to like the things that are fake or can’t differentiate what is real, because everything is copied in technology. I am going to look at this from an art angle, because games and being into things that are fake isn’t me. Fake human beings, like enhancing their body, skin colour, hair length and colour, piercing, too much make-up and strip it bear. There is a show ‘Snog, marry, avoid’ which is a make under show, but it’s funny how they go to a critical machine that is completely artificial itself and is not real to find advice. But when do machine make mistakes? 

It this virtual reality that make people believe that in real life they don’t look a certain way and creative avatars to compliment them. The movie Avatar was a look at how the people transfer their thoughts and movements to another body, being able to lose reality and be so immersed into that life that your real body is being neglected. I found this website of a guy collecting pictures of bad avatar calling themselves the second life fashion police. 

When immersion was first done in more of a scientific arty way, Osmose by Char Davies is an art instalment of being immersed into another place, kind of like Matrix but without all the wires and men in black. Char Davies says “Immersants often feel rediscovered aspects of themselves...interface boundaries between machine and human”.  The suit takes the gamer somewhere else and there breathing controls there movement, making the suit record them. Breathing in makes them float, out fall, lean to go left or right, but I don’t understand why there was 25,000 people in 1995 doing it now millions. 

Sims being able to creative a virtual mini me on screen, feed, eating, sleeping, is silly because I already control my movements in real life, so why is the computer telling me when to feed my avatar.

Everything is a copy of everything, playing games like chess is not required for the virtual reality but online chess there is a fake player; changes the idea. the youtube clip is an example how people would turn things from games into real life, even though this is a scientific test.

This is why I fully avoid immersion because it can draw you in. I would rather play with people in a concrete games like monopoly because the online copy doesn’t have that fun and interacting, still fully immersing someone. The difference with things liked Osmose is that there are no distractions from the real world. Once you have the experiences does take over and copy your life on a hard drive. I can full can agree getting away from being you, is being an avatar ‘you’.

Robots Ai Artifical !

Meaning to be a living entity or AI?

Can the new evolution of technology change the way we could interact as humans?

The entity of thing that are man-made, are the trickery of things that are made to believe that they aren’t. Robots AI (artificial intelligence) are created to have certain action and movements that humans aren’t able to do, or have lost the affect to do so. This does not make them living or capable to do the seven senses that living things have to do to be classed as living.

Robotic online programs like Alice which is an online therapist, has a set way to answer questions. The program is set in a way that the question always flips back on the writer. But why would they think someone would go to a therapist who feels no emotion, pain, happiness and therefore have no ability to mentor others.

'Bicentennial Man' robot wanting to be human

Those who believe that there phone is their best friend, have issues, and also those who love (in the literal sense) objects like building, planes or car. This also goes for people having robots as company have created the ultimate partner or pet.

Slowly games have taken over people minds by immersion, taking up time and stopping others from communicating with others, beside via the web.  Soon there is nothing stopping someone from marrying a robot and having intelligent conversation with them; like the movie Bicentennial Man with Robbie Williams. The other AI robot Eliza, has a programmed personality of a young female being cheeky, polite but her questions are every limited, it doesn’t have the tendency to ramble on or make verbal mistakes. Unlike Alice, it answers with more therapist questions!

The unemployment rate has gone down with the sales of robots boosting, instead of the hard labour for a man; making this man-made is more valuable. The intelligent creators clarified the down side of man, but some human are seeing that being a cyborgs is powerful, stopping limitations from the body. The option from being disconnected from a machine is now available like game controllers like Wii and Kinect, where you have the join to be immersed into the game. Robert Stelarc has envisioned this in his art work, being able to be with the robot to control the movements where the destination starts and end with both of them as one.  The option to disconnect the controller is still there unlike some who rather be fully connecting placing artificial matter into the body (because he wants to) Kevin Warwick, cybernetics scientist. 

Everyday entities that always come into our like, making an appearance then off again is phone conversations humans have decided that is better to talk to a robot rather than an automatic service.  Like a drug helpline called Talk to Frank when it just started, drug addicts would be talking to robots about their addictions and problems, which wouldn’t seem real if I was high! This new decade has become the life, where people can’t be bothered to use their lips and connect by buttons.

Hold on.....is that a remixed: Remixes, Samples & Copyright Clearances

In music, sampling is the act of taking a portion, or sample, of one sound recording and reusing it as an instrument or a different sound recording of a song. The wide spread use of sampling in popular music originated with the birth of hip hop music in New York in the 1970s. This is typically done with a sampler, which can be a piece of hardware or a computer program. Sampling is also possible with tape loops or with vinyl records on a phonograph.

THIS IS THE TERM FROM WIKIPEDIA DOESN'T MEAN IT IS TRUE>>>Thanks Jimmy Wales

I am going to see whether I feel that Remixing and sampling of music should be allowed because of the downloads (usually free from the internet.) Watching a documentary movie about remixes and about this Canadian DJ called Girltalk and how he was in danger of being charged for all the music he has sampled. We should blame it on Mickey Mouse because of the Mickey Mouse Protection Act in 1998 made by Warner Brother. This has happened in the US, EU but this movie was made in Canada they still have the waging war of copyright, just not illegal downloads. 

I don't understand that artist make music to share and help other people to their inspirational music. But no, as soon as the song has been used as a sampe by the public it's their song and you can't feel attached to it. Art is for the people to live life, so what is the point? But is technology an art form because this is thh only way legal terms and laws are crazy.

Some legal people are talking on the money involved in remixes from artist and the sampling game.

This is a clip from Radiohead Album that was given out free and how people should respect and the choose what to pay the artist and see what they can do withthe music. People online did some sampling on Youtube clips, getting fined for music that they got expenses free from the artist. Radiohead was unsigned, therefore that company was not allowed to do that.

Many people in the music industry are really business minded but forget that music is an art form and technology is apart of life aswell as experiementation of the two.