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From Technological Determinism to Calm Technology

From Technological Determinism to Calm Technology . IML 101: The Languages of New Media. Technological Determinism .

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From Technological Determinism to Calm Technology

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  1. From Technological Determinism to Calm Technology IML 101: The Languages of New Media

  2. Technological Determinism

  3. We should note the force, effect and consequences of inventions which are nowhere more conspicuous than those three which were unknown to the ancients, namely, printing, gunpowder, and the compass. For these three have changed the appearance and state of the whole world. –Francis Bacon

  4. Inventions themselves are not revolutions; neither are they the cause of revolutions. Their powers for change lie in the hands of those who have the imagination and insight to see that the new invention has offered them new liberties of action, that old constraints have been removed, that their political will, or their sheer greed, are no longer frustrated, and that they can act in new ways. -Colin Cherry, "The Telephone System: Creator of Mobility and Social Change”

  5. The important waves of technological change are those that fundamentally alter the place of technology in our lives. What matters is not technology itself, but its relationship to us. -Marc Weiser & John Seely Brown, "The Coming Age of Calm Technology” (1995)

  6. Calm Technology: Mainframe - many people share a computerPersonal computer - one computer, one personInternet - Distributed Computing. . . transition to . . .Ubiquitous computing - many computers share each of us

  7. Calm Technology: Facilitates our ability to process peripheral information Allows us to focus on centered technologies Enables smooth transitions between center and periphery

  8. Calm Technology

  9. Calm Technology

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