CEC Semenster Undefined
The Man-Machine Interface
Jon Gabay -
May 5,
2014
Machines of the Past & Advances That Changed History
We will begin by looking at how we developed as a species in conjunction with our machines, examine driving factors and necessities that spawned inventiveness, and look at the early inventions that helped us survive and advanced us significantly. We will review inventions that pioneered the user interfaces and how machinery has evolved to become safer and easier to use, and to provide improved productivity.
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May 6,
2014
Modern Advances & Electricity Changes All
We will look at how the electronics age has rapidly filled our modern-Day lives with machines and interfaces that we depend on. The machine we already live inside sustains us and our ability to interface with it helps us advance. While early machine interfaces were large, bulky, electro-mechanical assemblies, time has given way to streamlined and efficient technology for presentation and display of data, as well as clever ways to interact with machines.
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May 7,
2014
Research & Futures
While researchers and select vendors may have access to some of tomorrow's technology, for the most part, the next generation is in the wings. Modern processor densities, performance levels, and communications links allow high-level distributed processing environments to surround us each within our own little electromagnetic bubble. These Personal Area Networks will continue to interface and graft as we become electro-bionoids, providing us with ever-increasing levels of control and information.
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May 8,
2014
Security, Identification & Virtual Presence
We will look at ways in which security, identification, privacy, and individuality will be affected. We are constantly being surveyed, judged, evaluated, classified, etc. The technologies that will be "marketed" to us will seemingly solve problems and have desired features, but will require us to be an even more tightly coupled part of the machine. This includes physical control of the outside world with our minds, as well as the outside world being able to control our minds.
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May 9,
2014
Ethics, Dangers, Perception & Control
We will discuss how we control and manipulate this technology, and how this technology will be able to control and manipulate us. Very few of us could survive a real societal, social, or environmental meltdown. As many of us embrace the new awareness and consciousness that will be direct neural connectivity to an even more vast machine, our individuality may be overcome with the need for connectivity to sustain our jobs, and even our lives. Welcome to the Machine.
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Instructor
Jon Gabay