Event Two: Midterm presentations

 Midterm Presentations

All the presentations were remarkably interesting. Seeing everyone have such deeply considered ideas made me think about my own midterm quite a bit. Most of the ones presented had to do with exploring concepts and unknowns, whereas mine was more of a straightforward invention. For the final I will be sure to try and talk to more classmates and see the approach they take.

I noticed quite a few of the projects had to do with dreams, memories, or feeling which, I think are all intertwined. I like how they all focused on expressing these things to others, SolArt by Mary being a great example. The concept being to track, record, and display dreams and emotions onto a 3d printed chip.

I think it is amazing as a thought experiment because it really does touch on so many questions. One of which is privacy, which I would have liked to hear Marys' point of view on. Personally, I think of dreams as very intimate and private things, so if this were created I would not want the company having access to them at any kind of data base. Marketing is also fun to think about, if these dreams are recorded would marketing companies want access to them so that they can target products? Though perhaps I an off the mark completely and people will be super open about them, posting the recordings on line, perhaps even volunteering/selling their dream data to companies.

Image Sources

Picture 1: Citrix. (n.d.). sharefile. https://barnraisersllc.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/collaboration-illustration.jpg.

Picture 2: From Marys' presentation

Picture 3: From Marys' presentation

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