Ihde and the WORLD!!

One of the interesting things from the reading is the relationships of how Ihde decribes of the human to the world and the machines. I like how we discussed in class about the relationship of the cane to a blind man because thinking about it, the cane is the only tool for the blind man to experience the world. Actualy thinking about it, there are many tools out there that we the human use without thinking about how it effects our experience with the world. I think that everything that we use are changing our experience with the world. For me, i think one major object would be cars because when cars were introduced, people did not observe the world since cars go by places at a fast paced and before that, people rode horses or walked which they were more observative.

WEEK B4 SPring BREAK!!

well well well spring break is at the corner and this past week went by really fast especially with all of the presentations on monday. With all the new technologies that i have learn from the presentations, it is a great advantage for the future. I was on youtube and i saw this about the iPod touch and it seems very interesting.

A Machine that has a mind of its own?

Lexia to perplexia is the weirdest program or sight i have ever been to. At first it looked like a normal site of clicking an icon and something else coming up, but as soon you you start getting into the program itself, it does things by itself. The program does not follow a same situation like a power point where you control when a slide or object appears on the slide but the program itself comes up with its own ideas and topics to pop up as if it has its own mind to think for itself because the material or programs in there don't repeat themselves like how humans are and it is always changing. Also the reading before that was interesting too, it was kind of interesting when Hayles comes up with these new vocabs like technotext or like *.fect and it is suppose to mean other meanings as if it is a symbol of another language.