Conclusion on Futures Designs

At first I was very sceptical with this project. My narrow mindedness questioned it.
“How can students in six weeks come up with a future design and technology when there are people sitting in rooms brainstorming to come up with ideas like this.”
How I was sadly wrong.
In the mere 6 weeks I feel I have stumbled upon two or three ideas in my subconsciousness which are commercially viable and in the future, they would be squeezed into a niche market and help change or simplify people’s needs and life.
In such a large community- the world, with some many interests and hobbies and problems in the world I think everyone has an opportunity if they put their mind to it to be a visionary and creative thinker.
In the mist of this project and all the research it opened up a world I was not in touch with the advances in technologies are outstanding. From using brain frequencies for controlling robotic limbs to micro chipped medicine releasing drugs into your system.
The question with this, where is it going to take us?
In the next hundred years if we have the advances of technologies like the last hundred, will we even have to leave our houses to experience “life.” Will holidays consist of putting on virtual goggles and other senses generators to experience for instance swimming in the Great Barrier Reef? A projector to stimulate your skin, to feel the water and 3D holograms of the ocean and the ingredients of the sea.
In the art of artefacts, Latour says “Reality is only present by virtue of the relations human beings have with it.”
Will our ethnomethodolgy insights be distorted by change, to the extent of our everyday perception of life will it be lost in future generations to a new glossy textured bubbled rounded life or on the other hand a much grittier spin off of a Terry Gilliam film. A new wave of useless machines to help you with the most basic tasks in the scene, like in Modern Times.
I can imagine the ad “sick of having to move your hands while you eat!? Then you need Pseudo Eater 3000.”
To be honest considering 2/3 of America are over weight it would properly sell, that’s the sad reality we have come to.


Will we become slaves to technology?
Will people become so attached to computers they will have formal burials of their hard drives?
Can we not safely say that the computers will become more intelligent than us?
Due to computers and robots being able to reproduce quicker than us, is it possible these science fiction films actually a feasible storylines in years to come?
Firstly I think to some degree we are slaves to technology as it is and I can really see people become becoming very emotional about their technology and having to reach out for psychiatric help in years to come with the loss of a loved one(laptop!).
As for robots taking over earth I doubt it but if you asked someone about photography or the internet and explained the idea three hundred years ago, you would have been called mad or in some areas burnt at the stake. I don’t think you can rule anything out in this age especially humans’ creativity and wisdom.

Marshall Mc Luhan said in the Medium is the Message
“When the circuit learns your job, what are you going to do?”
Will eventually computers start doing our mundane jobs and push people out of employment, take for instance truck drivers, with the advances nowadays it is very possible to run the trucks with co-ordinated GPS systems thus sending all delivery drivers to the nearest unemployment line.
It is worryingly possible.

I never truly gave thought to the future in general, besides from year at a time. I’ve opened up a door of a new wave interests and the door has fallen of the hinge. If you asked me three months ago would I would be reading Science and Technology magazines on my own time for enjoyment I would have laughed. For this alone I think this was an interesting and enjoyable project not to mention I have a very commercial viable idea, I intent follow it up and see do I have the means, knowledge and organisation to get this flowing. I feel that people would actually use Music for the Masses. According to the survey there are so many hours where people are playing on their own and this should be tapped into.

Dissertation-initial ideas

my initial ideas are
1. the use of media propaganda in WW2 properly the Nazi side
2. the The Fibonacci Sequence In Art 0, 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, etc.

The first idea the propaganda has been an interest for me for years.
since studying the war when I was 15 dealing with how a chicken farmer like Gobbels could use media to turn a whole nation to such hideous crimes.
marrying constant lies and throwing up and over again and again until the people were convinced what he said must be true. the work Levi Riefenstahl making films for the Nazi party.
the posters, the newspapers the constant pressure of party broadcasts banging in on there heads.


the second idea also i have been thinking about for a while.
since watching a film called Pi, where they are looking for a particular number 216 digits in length.
the Fibonacci Sequence is discussed in this film greatly.
this sequence crops up in art, music and nature all the time.
the problem with this is how do i put this together with Digital Media?
it is used in modern design like the golden mean and the a band called TOOL use it in their music to structure the music and lyrics.

defiantly will be one of there headings because this is where my head is.

Getting there

All the research done finally
sketch book practically full.
All thats let to do is the prep for the presentation.

graphics and words

I've decided definatly to shoot about a 30 second commercial for the internet because this is what i'm interested plus some simple graphics made in combustion and 3ds max to emphasis my points.

here is a sample opening to my pitch



Music for the masses
The first online community was formed in 1995 called “classmates” since then they have grown in leaps and boundaries.
The problem with these social networking sites, there is no, in most cases -originality, people are using other people music art and books on their profile to try emphasis the being who they are, instead of finding their own individual personality. Re-using information already there to create an online persona.
“The web is no longer about idly surfing and passively reading or listening or watching. It’s about peering sharing, socialising, collaboration, creating within loosely connected communities.”
Wikinomics

This is a fresh community with one goal, mass collaboration for musicians and originality. A place like this could empower the secluded musician who has no confidence in his work and the well educated musician to push the boundaries of his knowledge and experimentation. This is the chance to reach out to like minded people, to grow as a writer and performer.
A perfect opportunity to open up to a new world of musical medium exploration. A contemporary web 2.0 concept for the new original amateur music producer.
Marshall Mc Luhan says “clothing is an extension of our skin” if so I believe and many others will agree, music is an extension of our soul.


In 2000-2001, 3 million was invested into a New Paradigm Investigation, “would the impact of the web on business be good or bad?”
The answer was it would be good, you can draw parallels between music and business- the more musicians that will collaborate the higher quality music will be produced.

The unique aspect of this community is that it is musically based, focus on the production and e-learning.
My space who had 181 million registered users; the community has a massive musical influence and hosts a lot of bands, new talent and solo artists. But giving no place for the masses to form musical side projects and using the medium of the World Wide Web to assist in this.
There is a niche in the market for a social community where people are actually creating and doing something productive instead of the people wasting their time looking at pictures that aren’t even related to them.