http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k-0VMnFmnL0
investigative report assignment proposal
2012 -
10.01
In one or two solid paragraphs, please articulate the following:
- *What is the development or phenomenon you are investigating?
- *What is its relevance to the future?
- *What is your research/investigation plan? What kinds of sources might you cite (interviews, existing news articles, statistical data, websites)?
- *Who is your audience?
- *Name a particular element/technique/style from one of the pieces we’ve read in this unit and explain how it might inspire your own work.
Due in class, Friday, October 5th.
drones, drones, everywhere
2012 -
09.28
In addition to our two assigned readings for today (“How robot drones revolutionized the face of warfare” and “Scientists Worry Machines May Outsmart Man”), it’s very much worth looking into the “Living Under Drones” report, recently released out of Stanford and NYU Law and currently garnering quite a bit of attention. The Guardian has a succinct writeup here; the full report is here, along with a useful executive summary.
where are we now?
2012 -
09.10
Courtesy of YouTube and something called Crackle (not to be confused with the delicious chocolate bar), here’s a complete, legitimate, streamable copy of Moon:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gbCfsAC-Aoo
the semiotic ghosts of futures past
2012 -
08.29
the rhetorical future, round one
2012 -
08.27
Apple and dystopia:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HhsWzJo2sN4
Reagan and utopia:
The US military’s science-fictional appeal:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fiB3vrhPDNs
AT&T tries its hand:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5MnQ8EkwXJ0