CompInfoFuture Homework 9: Project Development

chrishota — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 03:20:31 +0000

In a new posting on your blog, post your current writeup. Add notes inside it in various places. Each note says what you would like to add in at the location of the note. If you are writing a story, this might not work – instead, just add some more material to it, or develop more plot description, or whatever advance seems best.
- Latest updates are always kept at my online document store.
Write and incorporate a new part. Ideally it should be about crime (or precrime!), or indeed any other idea from Minority Report or our discussion of it. But if that doesn’t fit, any other advance to your project will do just as well.
Write and incorporate another new part. Ideally it should be about cyborgs, mind hacking, ghosts, shells, ghosts in shells, therm-optic camouflage, or something else related to The Ghost in the Shell. But again, any advance to your project will be fine.
- Thanks to the remarkable cortical plasticity of the brain, signals from implanted prostheses can, after adaptation, be handled by the brain like natural sensor or effector channels. (Townsend, G.; Graimann, B.; Pfurtscheller, G., “Continuous EEG classification during motor imagery-simulation of an asynchronous BCI,” Neural Systems and Rehabilitation Engineering, IEEE Transactions on , vol.12, no.2, pp.258-265, June 2004.)
- Aimee Mullins blurs the line between prosthesis, augmentation, and art. [Video, 10 minutes.]
- Licklider, J. C. R. ”Man-Computer Symbiosis,” Human Factors in Electronics, IRE Transactions on, volume HFE-1, pages 4-11, March 1960.
- “Brain implants in fiction and philosophy” from Wikipedia discusses the “brain in a vat” scenarios from Descartes and Putnam through the themes of contemporary films like The Matrix.
Explain briefly what you did for questions 1), 2), and 3) so that I can decipher what you did for this HW.
- I am continuing an exploration into the current trends in prosthetic and augmentation design for the human body, as well as where the technology is headed, and what philosophical repercussions will occur. I have read the aforementioned journal article and watched the videos, taking notes (linked), to put into my presentation.

CompInfoFuture Homework 8: Minority Report

chrishota — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 18:39:45 +0000

In connection with my research topic, I’m making lists of future technology. For the first half of Minority Report, this is what I came up with:

Telepresence of witnesses to grant the order for intervening.
Quick laser cutting of a ball of wood.
Wood-grain hashing.
The tube that the wooden red ball comes down is quite anachronistic.
Human-Computer Interaction, including the stretching for three screens, time scrubbing, wipe-to-select, and lasso-and-grab.
Hyper-Cross-Referencing of different databases to find out the scene of the crime.
Precognition, including the dichotomy between “pre-meditated” and “passion” crimes, the erasing of memory, and the displaying of thoughts on the screen.
Flying police car and personal jetpacks.
The “Halo” restraint device.
Omni-surface screens, used for advertising a precrime PSA.
Drugs, including “Clarity” and “Neuroin.”
Voice Activated Mood for home (“I’m Home,” “Overhead”)
Transparent screen technology, with auxillary screens such as “Wall screen” and 3D projection.
Cars with no drivers and federated decision-making and traffic flow.
“Absolute Metaphysics.”
A paper warrant. (anachronistic)
“Optical Tomography”
Rapid Eye scanning.
Cryostorage for Jail.
Personalized advertisements while walking (futuristic Spam).
Live-Updating digital newspaper (USA Today)

Each of these poses interesting questions for “could it happen” and “what are the consequences,” which I hope to explore in my paper/presentation.

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CompInfoFuture Homework 9: Project Development

CompInfoFuture Homework 8: Minority Report