"Incantations for Muggles: The Role of Ubiquitous Web 2.0 Technologies in Everyday Life" - 7 views
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Perhaps the magic is not in the technology, but in the practices that emerge from the seedlings we put out into the world? Perhaps our technologies are nothing more than pitiful efforts to replicate the magic that we do not fully understand.
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Liu He on 24 Oct 11Look at history. Mankind has not changed biologically. But human society has been undergoing continuous development through the harnessing of information and knowledge in the form of various technologies. Can the technologies affect our value systems, power structures, everyday routines and environment?What drives this development? Will future society be divided between those living in either physical or virtual reality?
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alperin on 25 Oct 11JPA: Some would argue that we have started to change biologically. Our brains are adapting to technologies, we've been thinking of the wiring of our brain in a different way as it interacts with technology more and more. I would also say that the answer to the question "can the tech affect our value systems, power structures, ...?" is a resounding YES. But the technology is not developing itself, we drive this development and I don't think it will ever be possible to disentangle those living in physical and virtual reality.
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Liu He on 25 Oct 11Yes, you are correct! So does that mean even we don't fully understand the potential of ourselves? What does the author mean when he say the "magic" of technology? Is it by adapting to technologies that we "re-wire" our brain and discover the "magician" in ourselves?
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If you want to understand the success of a social technology, you can't stare at the technology. You need to understand the social practices that make it flourish. Technologies succeed when they support what people already do, what they want to do, and what they're required to do. Technologies become ubiquitous when people stop thinking them as a technology and simply use them as a regular part of everyday life.
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Life stages are not simply biological - they are socially constructed, legally enforced, and architecturally bounded. Life stages are generalizations - they do not apply to everyone, but at the same time, they are constructed as "normative" by society. This is why Hollywood can make movies called "The 40-year-old Virgin" and everyone laughs. Because life stages are primarily socially constructed, they are bounded by culture.
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