During this week’s lectures, we spent most of the class time watching “2001”, a science fiction movie that was based on this “Monolith” that was this symboling of technology that humans saw since the dawn of man. They had a few sequences with several different times. It began with early civilization as they portrayed it and then it went onto the ( Read more... )

In today’s class we watched Alphaville. This movie was filmed about the time of the cold war. It was about a place where it was solely functional through a super computer. This computer was said to be “160 light years” more advance than the present IBM. This computer (alpha 60) controlled everything from law to climate control. We see that the ( Read more... )

On Tuesday’s class we had people do declamations on the subject of learning chips. There were four people involved playing four different roles. I thought that this was a very interesting class because of the different ideas the different people had on the topic. Danny was the senator, Maria was a manufacturer of the chip, Ryan was a mother, and so ( Read more... )

In the past two classes we discussed two ideas. One describing the media with the commons from the time of serfdom and the other on the ideas from a man called Jenkins ( Read more... )

In the past few classes the class discussion was focused on the visionaries of the pre-computer age. Vannevar Bush described a futuristic machine that would hold every piece of information and connect to a mainframe. Forster, in his short story “The Machine Stops” portrays a world that has been controlled by a machine and that they have lost all ( Read more... )