Engineering Design Studio (A5, 015)
Thursday, October 13, 2016, 11:50 am – 13:05 pm

• Attendance
• Machine types Sandbox (please add/update your description)
• NYU Classes: misleading homework of reading assignment
• Tour to RAK and Sharjah is booked…

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?

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?

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.

– Kevin Kelly's talk at TEDxS, 2010