I found out that today is Data Privacy Day when I went on to Google this morning š Ironic!
Happy Data Privacy Day. Protect the privacy and value of your personal digital data. #mscedc
— Cathy Hills (@fleurhills) January 28, 2017
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By the late twentieth century in US scientific culture, the boundary between human and animal is thoroughly breached.
Donna Haraway, Cyborg Manifesto
BBC News – Robots and drones take over classrooms https://t.co/Nmz5GCfrGe #mscedc
— Cathy Hills (@fleurhills) January 27, 2017
This article is more about teaching students to program robots and drones in the classroom rather than robots doing the teaching, but that’s not far off (thinking of Teacherbot). The increasing number of news items on AI, robots, technology in medicine … makes me think that time has speeded up again and what it means to be human is getting unstoppably enmeshed with tech. We have to keep vigilant and track where power and interest and ethics lie.
The description of UTCs (university technical colleges) in the item made me think, what about the kids who don’t get programming?
@philip_downey Really? Send me that in writing š #mscedc
— Cathy Hills (@fleurhills) January 26, 2017
Happy tweets with classmates
@philip_downey Are you being ironic? Are you <italics> tweeting </italics>about tech over-reliance? Not a criticism! #mscedc
— Cathy Hills (@fleurhills) January 26, 2017
The revolution has already happened
Bill Thompson says
we are now in a post-digital era where talking about things digital stops being as useful because there is nothing that is not touched by electronics …
This show was recorded INSIDE BBC Broadcasting House in Central London interviewing the amazing Bill Thompson for a second time. We talk about digital transformation, digital rights, security of data and reputation. Recorded live on the studio floor of the BBC Science team responsible for BBC Click. (text from SoundCloud via ifttt)
I enjoy listening to Bill Thompson’s commentary on the BBC Click podcast. It’s something I do regularly to help keep up to speed on technological advances.
Blurred human/animal/machine boundaries https://t.co/LWqlCqtrpg this recipe & literally wired beetle #mscedc pic.twitter.com/bgZjXzFSYV
— Cathy Hills (@fleurhills) January 24, 2017
This tweet via ifttt requires celebration because I’ve finally got tweets to appear as I want them to. Whilst wandering through the ifttt applets, I had various reactions to individual recipes. Some of them could be really insecure if the hardware they employed wasn’t sufficiently locked down, and some, like the one above, made me feel slightly uncomfortable. Although it would be great to get up to freshly-brewed coffee, I would prefer to be the person who switched the machine on rather than delegating agency to another piece of software. There’s something strange about a machine knowing my consciousness was emergingĀ from sleep.
Global Risks Rprt '17 https://t.co/HYqORp15DX AI & Robotics above avg for potential benefits & risks. Need 4 better governance. #mscedc
— Cathy Hills (@fleurhills) January 23, 2017
VODER (1939) – Early Speech Synthesizer
Considered the first electrical speech synthesizer, VODER (Voice Operation DEmonstratoR) was developed by Homer Dudley at Bell Labs and demonstrated at both the 1939 New York World’s Fair and the 1939 Golden Gate International Exposition. Difficult to use and difficult to operate, VODER nonetheless paved the way for future machine-generated speech.
via YouTube https://youtu.be/0rAyrmm7vv0
I linked to this YouTube clip as an interesting example of early digital culture – a precursor to Siri and Alexa.Voder was demonstrated in 1939, a fact which plays mind-tricks, showing both how fast technology has progressed this century but also emphasising that it hasn’t caught us unaware either. In many areas, issues of governance, security, digital rights and openness (to name only a few) are playing catch-up.
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Whenever I think of Audrey Watters I picture her lifting a corner of the carpet to see what has been hidden underneath. We should all take a look!
Find her blog Hack EducationĀ on “the history of the future of Education Technology”: