19 Jun 2020
Review of Exploration We started the conversation as before, with a brief review of what we explored last week: “This week, I looked at…” “My case study revealed …” “One obstacle I encountered is…” “One thing I’d like to examine more is …” And, “To me, spooky tech is…” As a collective, some of us explored topics around social impact of technology around user privacy and IoT hacking, some explored spiritualist apps. There’s also cases around using technology to create illusions… just to name a few. Apart from getting a broader range of cases to explore, with these further explorations, more themes emerged, and we started from there to discuss our strategy of the framing of our project “Spooky Tech”. Case Scouting Strategy Starting from discussing how we gathered information, some of the strategies proved to be quite handy: Finding things in daily life experience that are spooky and scout... Read more...
18 Jun 2020
To start Week 2, we took the zoom chat window to respond to prompts posed by what I suppose could have been a chatbot, but we have reason to believe was Daragh. Prompts like … “This week, I looked at …” “My case study revealed …” “One obstacle I encountered is…” “One thing I’d like to examine more is …” And, “To me, spooky tech is…” Allowed each of us to reflect on, and respond to, our initial forays into whatever worlds we considered “spooky tech”. Though the fullness of the chat window was lost to the digital ether after ‘end call’ preceded ‘save chat’, the prompts set the tone for rich discussion. In this spirit, Week 2 was much more about raising questions and identifying places to focus future discussions than it was about finding answers. Our original share-back was, fittingly, about a chat bot. This chatbot, however, was... Read more...
12 Jun 2020
Spooky Tech aims to survey cases for a digital inventory of ‘spooky technologies’. Over the next ten weeks, twelve students from across Carnegie Mellon will compile, curate and organize these examples. This blog will share snippets of how we’re working. We’re using it to collect and share the stories, conversations, musings and reflections that reveal the process ‘behind the scenes’. Each week we’re inviting one of our students to take on the role of rapporteur: to record our discussions and share their point of view. The blog will also track our progress over two main phases of activity: Weeks 1-4: Inventory - we’ll gather, write up and prepare cases Weeks 5-9: Book Sprint - we’ll organize our examples into a designed volume It’ll also share perspectives on the conversations we’re having and questions we’re raising: What is spooky tech? How does spooky tech relate to historical examples? What is the... Read more...