Schlagwort: Technologie

The Problems of our Time.

  • 2018-09-09

The other three sides of the tower are displaying the correct time, which is decidedly confusing for city dwellers and tourists alike. A special company has been hired to fix the broken clock, but it is expected to take around a week for all sides of the tower to display the same time. If the software error is not fixed by the end of October, then that clock face will actually become the correct time again due to daylight saving time.

The Northern Times: Martini Tower clock displaying wrong time

Gedatenrausch.

  • 2018-06-11

“Does it fuck up your brain?” Hiro says. “Or your computer?” “Both. Neither. What's the difference?”

Neal Stephenson: Snow Crash

Rationalinking.

  • 2018-05-18

And I make no apology
for linking my thinking
with computer technology.

Faithless: Reverence

Smartphattention.

  • 2018-03-23

With today’s smartphones, you usually get a minimal set of functionalities out of the box and go through installing diverse applications for your different needs. Usually those applications are proprietary and are designed around their own unethical business model; hence they compete against each other for your attention and have their own set of features to be used within the scope of the application only.

This can lead to a lot of redundancy and confusion in terms of functionality. A particularly blatant case is communication applications, where we see each application handling their own contacts logic, their own locked down and isolated protocol, and where a ton of applications will implement the same things for the same purpose (making calls and sending messages), with the focus typically being the flashiest application to attract and retain the most users.

François Téchené (purism): Design report #4: symbiotic applications 

Yeah, that didn't happen.

  • 2018-01-13

Wir brauchen in einem zukunftsorientierten Bildungssystem auf allen Schulstufen und in allen Schulformen eine gestufte, kritische informations- und kommunikationstechnologische Grundbildung als Moment einer neuen Allgemeinbildung; "kritisch", das heißt so, daß die Einführung in die Nutzung und in ein elementarisiertes Verständnis der modernen, elektronisch arbeitenden Kommunikations-, Informations- und Steuerungsmedien immer mit der Reflexion über ihre Wirkungen auf die sie benutzenden Menschen, über die möglichen sozialen Folgen des Einsatzes solcher Medien und über den möglichen Mißbrauch verbunden werden.

W. Klafki: Neue Studien zur Bildungstheorie und Didaktik: Zeitgemäße Allgemeinbildung und kritisch-konstruktive Didaktik. Beltz Verlag, 2. erweriterte Auflage, 1991.