Visions of the Future BBC4 series- Dr. Michio Kaku

Last November BBC 4 ran a three part series called “Visions of the Future” presented by Dr. Michio Kaku. Here he discusses a range of emerging future related topics from robots & brain pacemakers to in-vitro grown organs and meat to the theories and practices of Neil Gerschenfeld’s self fabrication bits & atoms [...]

Robots/careworkers?

‘Monitoring vital signs or mediating loving care and connection: the social codes of new care technologies’

Ingunn Moser and Jeanette Pols - University of Oslo/University of Amsterdam:
Download power point presentation> Telecare_IMJP

The Icat by Philips
Notes written by students of Theo Vurdubakis -Department of Organisation, Work and Technology, Lancaster University:
Ingunn’s presentation focused upon the growing recognition of the need for a deeper understanding of care technologies and the complexities of material, social, [...]

Discussion

Why did Aibo go out of production? We don’t know.
Do carers really care? The Eros-Thanatos relation is more complicated. Hate is also mediated through these technologies. There are times in care when this happens.
To what extent does the telecare offer surveillance of care-work? What kinds of pre-emptive effects arise? Do they displace protection or [...]

Design - Introductory workshop - 4-5 Oct 2007 - Day 2

Design session
Cindy Weber introduced the design speakers from RCA, LICA &Imagination@Lancaster, Lancaster University, Department of Computing, and Department of Organisation, Work and Technology.
Fiona Raby on critical design
Fiona Raby of Dunne + Raby discussed feral nature of critical design, and the accidental political nature of what it does. It works with the mismatch between official [...]