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Technology is portrayed as a god uncritically worshipped by human beings. Are we this vulnerable? Is there no free will involved? Or is this dystopian view just the normal panic response facing the enormous power we’ve invoked?

We are worshiping technology uncritically and in a fast consumerism way. We are building a urban universe that tries to ignore nature more and more, but still, this is the only planet we’ve got and there are a lot of natural resources that our technology depends on. In the end this is a suicidal religion if we look at it this way.

This is how the future looks like… the possibilities are endless and, at last, it leaves a kind of bitter taste to me. Why? I think that mi anxiety can be resumed in 2 questions:

Is this future for everyone, or just for some of us?

And, if the sustainability concept seeks the balance between 3 spheres: economy, society and ecology, then

Will the energy and natural resources still available on this over exploited planet allow the development of these technologies for everyone without wearing out?

In the end, I ask myself if it’s there, in the inner nature of high tech to be elitist and anti-ecologist… and then I think that maybe the answers are lying there in fantasy movies like Avatar or in the inspiring promises of biomimetic design… who knows?


In this PREZI, I am trying to represent the maremagnum of ideas that came to my mind during the EDC MOOC course.

This is a construction of images taken randomly from the internet using the google search tools. Each letter of the acronym is symbolized by the images that touch my heart when I was searching.

With them, I made a Picasa collage, then edited in Corel Draw, and presented in a Prezi. I also added a video of "The pros and cons of hitchhiking" from Pink Floyd, taken from you tube.

Please feel free to explore the images using the zooming tool. Thank you. CG.

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Even their brains are meat!!! M E A T
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De los videos que hemos visto esta semana, este es sin duda el que más me impactó. ¿Me impactó porque tengo alma de arquitecto? Quizá, es alucinante imaginarse trabajando en sketchup desde dentro... pero creo que el final fue la verdadera razón. No se lo pierdan.
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WOW! Dos impresionantes visiones de futuro según dos grandes compañías transnacionales: Corning y Microsoft.

 Así se ve el futuro próximo... las posibilidades son infinitas y al final me queda un sabor amargo. ¿Porqué? Creo que mi preocupación puede resumirse a dos preguntas:

¿Este futuro es para TODOS o solo para unos cuantos?

Y si el concepto de sustentabilidad busca el equilibrio de las 3 esferas ECONOMÍA, SOCIEDAD y ECOLOGÍA,  entonces...

¿Los recursos y la energía disponibles aún en este planeta sobre explotado permitirán el desarrollo de estas tecnologías para TODOS sin agotarse?

A final de cuentas, me pregunto si está en la propia naturaleza de las hightech ser elitistas y antiecológicas... y luego pienso si las respuestas no estarán de alguna manera esbozadas en la fantasía de películas como Avatar o en las esperanzadoras promesas del diseño de la Biomimética.

Estos son los comentarios de los tutores y sus preguntas generadoras:

These are two video advertisements - one from Corning, and one from Microsoft - setting out these companies’ visions of how their products will evolve and be used in the future. In both cases, the companies position their information technologies as completely integrated with daily life. Questions you might try to answer in the discussion boards, on Twitter, or in the form of an image are:
  • how is education being visualised here? what is being learned and taught?
  • what is the nature of communication in these future worlds?
  • are these utopian or a dystopian visions to you? In what way(s)?
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Interesante visión del potencial de la web 2.0, la web está vinculando gente de todo el mundo, gente común, como tú y como yo, sin necesidad de saber códigos misteriosos, sólo utilizando herramientas disponibles gratuitamente para todos. Sin duda esta es la versión que más se acerca a la UTOPÍA.

pencil - keyboard - hypertext - links - software - Web 2.0
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La pregunta generadora y mi respuesta a este hermoso video:

Inbox - Utopian or Dystopian? Jeremy KnoxINSTRUCTOR • 3 days ago   TAGS: Inbox, dystopia
We loved the quirkiness of this short film, and the original way it deals with contemporary social exchanges. How do you think it might suggest utopian or dystopian ideas about the nature of communication in a mediated world? What kind of educational debates can we draw associations with here?
I loved the happy ending of “Inbox”, but it make me wonder why it`s so difficult to connect with people we met in the traditional ways? Why are we so defensive to human contact? I think face to face communication is overloaded with prejudices. The acquired look and image patterns we learned and interiorize since childhood makes us” tag” people before even know them. Virtual communication eliminates this prejudice and lets us perceive other values and charms that we usually don`t dig to find if we don`t like the package.
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