Personal Dynamic Media

To think that the Dynabook was just a starting point for our technology now, and to see how far we have come as creators is amazing, and to think that they were afraid how people would accept this new technology. The drawing and painting aspect of the Dynabook resembles what we would call photoshop, or any other online website that allows you to manipulate photos now, and for free. You were also able to read books through the Dynabook, which now we can do on pretty much any tablet or kindle. Although they were worried about the Dynabook being "too many different tools for too many people", technology always needs a starting point and now ideas like the Dynabook have now been refined, and will continue to be developed throughout the future of technology.

Kay and Goldberg; Personal Dynamic Media

I find it really interesting how important children were to the purpose and creation of the dynabook. It shows how important learning and teaching was to the design process and overall purpose of the program. It makes me wonder why programming was ever taken, or never placed, in the curriculum of high school, middle school or even elementary school settings. I think had it been incorporated today's youth be more interested in creating their own platforms rather than the social media obsessed youth we have today. What i mean is today's youth is prone to using platforms such as social media, programs that have been created as a input/output cookie cutter function, rather than using the technology available to them to create their own programs and really utilize such technology in a more unique, artistic way. In addition I wonder how different my work, and myself as a person , would be had I been taught about computers and programming at a young(er) age.

Kay and Goldberg Article

The more into the future we go, the less human interaction we create and more we will really on the dynamics of technology to do some of the basic human functions. The data that was explained in the article goes more towards the computers than the people. For this article to be dated decades ago, it reveals how technology uses the same formula as they did then as they do now.

Kay and Goldberg_PierceH_Week11

        When reading this piece by Kay and Goldberg, I get perplexed at when Kay says, 

     "the interactions of humans with their media have been primarily nonconversational and passive in the sense that marks on paper, paint on walls, even "motion" pictures and television, do not change in response to the viewers wishes." (Pg.393)

              The reason this confuses me is because it is a complete one-eighty from Vertov's prowess and manipulation over his viewer. Not to mention, in Television we experience emotional reactions when a politician does something stupid or when your favorite sports team does poorly, to name a few. Maybe I'm taking this to a more literal sense than what Kay had in context. While I do agree that our interactions with media are nonconversational, I think that for the most part, we aren't passive to any degree.

Week 11

The Dynabook is helpful in many different fields, but it is also decreasing the amount of human interaction. Instead people would be interacting with the Dynabook because that is where all of the information is held and stored. I thought it was interesting to read this article because it was written in the late 70's and when computers were being released to the public. From it being written in the past and with the current knowledge about the present, it is interesting to see how successful the personal computer was and how it continues to grow as a product.

Kay and Goldberg

The meta medium of computers causes it to help you be able to learn, solve problems and to work on assignments that might be coming up.  This therefore puts a reverse on the human interaction causing us to mover further away from face to face interaction. The idea of having a "two way conversation" instead of face to face. The dynabook stores information and data just like your brain stores information in order for you to remember things and keep track of certain events. The two connect in the way your brain works and in the way you interact with others, making them related and going off of each other.

Week 7 | Dziga Vertov

Up until this class I haven't really given much attention to film. With the occasional cinema and an abundance of YouTube binging. Of course I "Netflixed and chilled", but I never really sat down and thought about the work, the mind set, the continuous editing shot after shot. It's incredibly impressive to say the least. Reading the excerpt of Dziga Vertov gave me a glimpse behind the artists train of thought. It was as if every frame was thought of like a painting. The carful planning that goes into a shot even before you begin is amazing. My favorite line from this excerpt is, "The main and essential thing is: The sensory exploration of the world through film. We therefore take as the point of departure the use of the eye as a kino-eye, more perfect than the human eye, for the exploration of the chaos of visual phenomena that fills space". Is it appropriate to close my thoughts with a hashtag? I don't really care. #brilliantasfuck