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.