===== Men & Machines | Mind Hacks =====
Engineering Design Studio (A5, 015)\\
Thursday, October 13, 2016, 11:50 am – 13:05 pm 

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=== Foreword ===
  * Attendance
  * [[machine_types|Machine types Sandbox]] (please add/update your description)
  * NYU Classes: misleading homework of reading assignment
  * Tour to RAK and Sharjah is booked…

=== Case Study Presentation ===

| 18 | Mind Hacks  | October 13, 2016  | Hamza  |

=== Discussion ===

Hamza will lead through the discussion:
  * What do you think about ways of manipulating ourselves or others using a //mind hack//?
  * How can technology give our lives a greater meaning? What do you think?
  * What do you think about the future in the context of //Mankind and Technology/Men & Machines//?


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In his book //What Technology Wants// Kevin Kelly describes technology as a natural system – an extension of biological evolution. By mapping the behavior of life, we paradoxically get a glimpse at where technology is headed – or "what it //probably// wants". 

  * **Chapter 2: Inventing Ourselves**
    * What changed life substantially?
    * Please describe how Kelly retraces the development of the last 50.000 years…
    * Following John Neumann's determination about an evolution of technology: What will be the problems of the future?
  * **Chapter 3: History of Seven Kingdom**
    * What is meant with the term //Technium//?

=== Reading Assignment ===

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Mind Hacks\\
By Tom Stafford, Matt Webb\\
Publisher : O'Reilly\\
Pub Date : November 2004\\
ISBN : 0-596-00779-5\\
Pages : 394\\

PDF available via NYU Classes.

Please read the following:
  * Preface
  * the part about //Why Mind Hacks?//
  * From first chapter 1: **Hack 11.**// Why People Don't Work Like Elevator Buttons// and **Hack 12.** //Build Your Own Sensory Homunculus//. 

=== Links ===
– [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nF-5CMozGWY|Kevin Kelly's talk at TEDxS]], 2010