“For the last thirty five years, time after time, Apple has revolutionized the way we look at technology and dragged the rest of the industry kicking and screaming into the future. If we listed all the ways in which Apple has changed the way we interact with technology, we could fill a book, so here… Read More Connecting nuggets
“The MacBook Pro is the most expensive PC among the top 3, but if you’re looking for top reliability – the data is clear. MacBook Pro is the best Windows PC on the market.” I found this quote from this article that compared all the best brands of laptops out there from liability, speed to… Read More Macbook Pro Nuggeting source
Reflection Class has been getting more in depth with the readings we have been doing since beginning of class and we getting more and more involved as a group. The group work got us to think and reflect on what we could remember on the past blogs that we did on the articles. Honestly I… Read More Finalizing My Dream
The two students that I decided to review from our section was Srikaruniv200 and oweisad2. The two from other section I chose was frerichsjd and reynoldsme2. Srikars and oweisad was similar to mine except for the licklider article on computer symbiosis. Reason I didn’t add his article is because I wanted stay away from the computer part and get… Read More Mapping my dreamers (revised)
Mapping my Dreamers (concept experience): Select three of the new media readings and synthesize at least five conceptual bases for comparing them to one another. Select useful concepts or insights, summarize them briefly, and then relate them to each other in multiple different ways. The goal here is not a huge amount of writing, but… Read More Mapping my Dreamers (Concept Experience)
This class has been picking up speed quite fast, been a little behind on the couple the assignments due to midterms taking up majority my time. It has gotten much more interesting with the discussions we have been doing in class. Deciphering complex written articles has never been my strongest suit or had any interest… Read More Slow Progress
This assignment was fairly challenging but yet still interesting in a way which kept my mind thinking about which posts are relevant to this topic that I will be discussing about. Computer is food, a blog which I thought was appropriate to connect with the metamedium we read about. The blog title invites the reader… Read More Metamedium Concept Experience
What would happen in a world in which everyone had a Dynabook? If such a machine were designed in a way that any owner could mold and channel its power to his own needs, then a new kind of medium would have been created: a metamedium, whose content would be a wide range of already-existing… Read More extra extra 3D nugget
Another interesting nugget was that children really needed as much or more computing power than adults were willing to settle for when using a timesharing system. The best that timesharing has to offer is slow control of crude wire-frame green-tinted graphics and square-wave musical tones. The kids, on the other hand, are used to finger-paints,… Read More Alan Kay and Adele Goldberg, “Personal Dynamic Media” (nugget)
For this project I had some ideas on where to go with the topic, “Macbook Pro”. The topic is basically one of Apple’s top products, the Macbook Pro. The whole project will consist of different points and angles about the Apples top branded laptop. The direction I’m going to go with this project will be… Read More inquiry project proposal draft #2