Category: Future Design
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The Home of the Future
What are the “socialist values” in this area and how will they be applied, in what applications? In addition to robotic devices, the “android home” will have living interactive ecosystems ambiences.
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New Book Published: “Transdisciplinary Design”, edited by Alan N. Shapiro
My edited book Transdisciplinary Design has just been published by the Passagen Verlag of Vienna in their XMedia series. The Passagen Verlag is one of the leading publishers in the German-language countries of philosophy books, especially by “postmodern” and “deconstructionist” and “neo-Marxist” radical thinkers, such as Derrida, Baudrillard, Lyotard, Foucault, Deleuze, Badiou, and Zizek.
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Das Paradox, die Zukunft vorherzusehen, von Alan N. Shapiro
Die meisten Voraussagen über das, was geschehen mag, sind im wesentlichen psychologische Projektionen eines imaginären Zukunftsszenarios, bestehend aus einigen geläufigen Phänomenen, die sich tatsächlich bereits ereignet haben oder sich gerade gegenwärtig ereignen.
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The Paradox of Foreseeing the Future, by Alan N. Shapiro
In spite of my reputation as a science fiction theorist and futurist designer, I do not believe very much in the future. Starting from the psychology of consciousness, I would like to invoke the German-Canadian author Eckhart Tolle, who, in The Power of Now, emphasizes that it is good to live in the present.
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“Die Software der Zukunft,” new book by Alan Shapiro
My new book Die Software der Zukunft was just published by the Walther König Verlag in Cologne. Mit seiner “Software der Zukunft” pladiert der Informatiker und Medientheoretiker Alan Shapiro für eine partizipatorisch realisierte Neuausrichtung der Informatik.
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How Does the Changed Media Environment Influence Young People’s Attention and Education?, by Lena Neumann
The modern world is coming up with a plethora of new media which we all find ourselves faced with everyday. The notion of a change in modes of attention is a question that N. Katherine Hayles discussed in her essay “Hyper and Deep Attention: The Generational Divide in Cognitive Modes.”