Thursday, March 5, 2009
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.
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I never thought of relating it to humans like you do, about how it has its own mind and can "think for itself." Thats a unique analogy and it makes a lot of sense. Its like the site is in control when you are on it, not the other way around like normal websites.
ReplyDeleteI agree...Lexia to Perplexia was unlike anything I've ever seen. I think this is what made it so frustrating to me. I didn't know how to work it, I couldn't control it, and I felt kind of stupid, honestly. But, then I started wondering if that is what my mom feels like when she goes online. She gets really frustrated when she doesn't know how to work something, and this website sort of put me in her shoes.
ReplyDeleteUseless is the word I've chosen to describe Lexia. There is no flow, or path to the site at all. Just seems like a bunch of scrambled words. I don't know why anyone would waste their time creating this.
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