Archives for the Month of December 2005 on Living iPODless in an iPOD World
Nothing left to invent?
On a final note for this semester, I thought I'd share a small, yet very significant, concept that I've learned from this SAGES class. Before this class began, I thought we'd be talking about how specific inventions such as the iPOD affect our worlds- socially, politically, biologically, etc. We did learn this, but we also learned how to world acts on iPODs to bring its natural order about- the world imposes its networking habits on technology around us, or technology around us imposes its networking habits on the well-equipped world. This natural structure of the world makes it possible to go beyond what we've seen- to network invisibly, into our daily lives. If our lives are suited for networks, then we should be able to add computing into our lives discreetly.
So this all comes down to that one thing I've learned- that there is more to invent. I honestly, truly believed that there really was nothing left to invent. We can communicate from around the world. We can answer questions about every aspect of the universe. We can enjoy any of our interests through convenient means or through satellite, on demand viewing of or listening to these interests. But we notice all these things because they haven't truly disappeared into the landscape of our lives. The next task we have is to create technology that is ubiquitous- and we certainly have a lot more to invent!