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Adam Bohannon

Heidegger 2 Twitter: Technology, Self & Social Networks. - 11 views

  • Both object and subject are converted to a “standing-reserve”, to be disaggregated, redistributed, recontextualized, and reaggregated.
  • And human individuals, who were once reduced to resources (Frederick Taylor, and the authoritarianism of Human Resource departments), or “eyeballs” in the terminology of internet marketing executives; are now the creative engines of growth, innovation, and creativity.
  • This becomes even more interesting when we wonder about the context and meaning of start-ups intentionally exposing their office space’s ductwork - as if the open office with exposed pipes re-instantiates a manifestation of the hearth, or at least ‘un-hides’ the circulatory system of commerce.
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  • Postmodern technology uses the hyper-reality of simulations to get rid of the limitations imposed by reality. The limit of postmodern reality is not the total objectification of nature, but the replacement of reality by virtual reality totally under our control.
  • Borgmann’s antidote for losing our personality to the shallowness and superficiality of hyper-reality is to return to focal activities.
  • It takes commitment on our part to engage in focal activities, but the effort affords us a chance to maintain some sense of self in the technological world.
  • Thus technological rationality can claim that technologies are value neutral, and only uses are good or evil, despite the fact that the uses are shaped by the technologies.
  • And technology leads to new forms of domination. For the critical theorists history has always had domination, but in our time domination has changed from master over slave or lord over serf to the domination of humanity by economics and the market. We are given the illusion of liberty, but that is simply the freedom to choose between brands of mass-produced products.
  • Computer technology further de-contextualizes human experience by emphasizing information over understanding. And computers further domination by providing new means of tracking the productivity of workers to the corporation and depersonalizing supervision; very much a modern panopticon envisioned by Jeremy Bentham.
  • Foucault’s view allows for the possibility that information technology could be used to put people in more direct communication with each other and spread the concentration of power over society.
  • MS Word and freely available blogging software encourages us to constantly revise, so a work becomes a series of drafts, none of which is final (just like this post).
  • Gould’s attitude towards design finds philosophical support in pragmatism. Pragmatism recognizes that everyone is socially situated. Dewey taught that scientific theories or methods of logic are tools used in a certain social practice. Attention to the practices surrounding an object are important to understanding it. Since he viewed knowledge as participatory he argued that learning must come about by doing.
  • Metaphors provide us a way of understanding the world, by associating one thing with another. Powerful metaphors are like magic, and inform how we think of the objects described, revealing hidden aspects of the thing described. New metaphors for the forces in our lives will suggest new ways of living.
  • Metaphors interact with technology in several ways: technology serves as a source of metaphors, new technologies are understood metaphorically, and our metaphors in life pose problems to be solved technologically
  • By developing new metaphors, interface designers can suggest new ways of working with computers. If these metaphors are carefully chosen then they will provide a natural model which makes operation of the machine easy.
  • Just as metaphors can help us understand computers, computers can provide new metaphors for life. Postmodern theories of psychology suggest that there is no single unified “ego”, but that each of us is made up of a multiplicity of parts, while Minsky discusses the “agencies of mind” in his book “The Society of Mind.” Philip Bromberg claims that a healthy personality is one in which different aspects of the self can come to know one another and reflect upon each other.
  • This fluid multiplicity of personality is what gives us our flexibility and resilience.
  • Social networks allow participants to explore different aspects of their personality, to manufacture and evolve aspects of their personality depending on context and mood.
  • While some observers might see this activity as evidence of Heidegger’s disaggregation of the subject by technology, it can also be seen as a model for Bromberg’s self as being one while being many. This is just one way in which computer technology, the internet, and connected social networks can show us a new way of understanding ourselves.
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How Technology is changing the substance of World Healthcare - 0 views

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    Healthcare industry has been suffering from escalation and apprehensive situations over the past centuries and substantially the precautionary measurements which had taken for improvements in the healthcare industry. It happened because of the use of technology. There is a drastically intense tie among technology and healthcare industry. Innovation in healthcare sector accompanying with technology tools and it is reforming the social and personal lives across the globe.
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    NSF report on "Managing Nano-Bio-Info-Cogno Innovations: Converging Technologies in Society" 2006 Abstract: This introductory chapter briefly defines the "NBIC" unification that is rapidly taking place today among Nanotechnology, Biotechnology, Information technology, and Cognitive science. It then describes how the other chapters address the potential impacts of converging technologies, considers how innovation can be stimulated and steered, and provides a basis for an understanding of the societal implications of NBIC.
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Application of Membrane Technology in Dairy Industry - 0 views

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    Application of Membrane Technology in Dairy Industry Membrane technology in dairy industry focuses on membrane separation technology. Membrane separation technology has the advantages of low environmental pollution, low energy consumption, no need to use additives, avoiding thermal damage to products, and concentrating or separating materials while filtering, making it more and more used in dairy processing. Practical value and broad application prospects.
Mike Wesch

Gives Life Meaning: Homeless Mind - Modernity's Discontents - 1 - 0 views

  • As we have seen, modern technological production brings about an anonymity in the area of social relations. What we have called componentiality, which is intrinsically related to the manner in which modern technology deals with material objects, is transferred to individual relations with others, and ultimately with the self. This anonymity carries with it a constant threat of anomie. The individual is threatened not only by meaninglessness in the world of his work, but also by the loss of meaning in wide sectors of his relations with other people.
  • Furthermore, he is constantly in the situation of having too many balls in the air simultaneously. In the words of the classical American joke: He has "too many choices" all the time. The complexity of the multi-relational modern world puts a strain on all standard operating procedures, not only in the individual's activity but in this consciousness as well.
  • Once more the result is tension, frustration and, in the extreme case, a feeling of being alienated from others.
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    As we have seen, modern technological production brings about an anonymity in the area of social relations. What we have called componentiality, which is intrinsically related to the manner in which modern technology deals with material objects, is transferred to individual relations with others, and ultimately with the self. This anonymity carries with it a constant threat of anomie. The individual is threatened not only by meaninglessness in the world of his work, but also by the loss of meaning in wide sectors of his relations with other people.
Cyndi Danner-Kuhn

Teaching College Math » Blog Archive » Technology Skills We Should Be Teachin... - 0 views

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    If America wants to continue to be a world-leader, we can do it with a technology advantage - but only if we actually know how to leverage that technology to continue to be more productive. So, I began to write out a list of the tech skills that I think students should learn before they leave college. Ideally, these are skills that would be integrated throughout K-12 and college curricula.
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    Application of nanofiltration membrane technology in oily wastewater Emulsion-containing oily wastewater mainly comes from industries such as metal processing, petroleum, and docks. Its treatment difficulty is quite high because it has characteristics such as high oil content, high wastewater concentration, and difficulty in biodegradation. The problem of treating oily emulsion-containing wastewater urgently needs to be solved and has become a top priority in wastewater treatment. Nanofiltration membrane technology has a significant application effect in the treatment of oily emulsion-containing wastewater. So, what is a nanofiltration membrane? What are the advantages of nanofiltration membrane technology in the treatment of oily emulsion-containing wastewater?
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Sherry Turkle - The Colbert Report - 1/17/11 - Video Clip | Comedy Central - 4 views

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    MIT professor Sherry Turkle talks with Stephen Colbert about the subject of her book "Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other." She argues that we should exercise more restraint when using technology.
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Healthcare Information Technology - 0 views

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    The Healthcare IT or Healthcare Information Technology market was evaluated at $125 billion in 2015, and is estimated to reach $297 billion by 2022, with a CAGR of 13.2%.
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    While IFE ELEVATORS is developing rapidly, it has always spared no effort to carry out technological innovation, and has achieved good results in the development of energy saving and consumption reduction. With its self-developed "energy feedback regeneration technology", IFE has realized the transformation from "energy saving" to "energy generation". The application of this technology in elevator products has been sought after by overseas developed countries and regions. Singapore has become an international model of a green city-state with efficient environmental policies, and is known as the "greenest city in Asia". Therefore, more than 6,500 elevators delivered and implemented by the HDB project in cooperation between IFE and the Singapore Housing Development Board are equipped with energy feedback re-lifting technology. It can be said that this technology is gradually becoming a standard configuration for exporting overseas, and is listed in elevators by overseas customers. in the list of purchase requirements.
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    Globally the incubator model has emerged as an essential ingredient of the infrastructure required for the growth of high technology businesses such as Information Technology and Software development.
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Og så alligevel… » Ethnography and the design of new media - 0 views

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    More and more anthropologists are doing research on new media technologies like mobile phones and social networking sites. Some of them are even being hired by companies to do ethnographic studies to gather the sort of "actionable insight" that can help a better understanding of how these technologies are used, and help inform how new products should be designed.
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