1) Steve Mann describes his wearable computer invention as a form of ________ for one person (fill in the blank)
(see youtube link to Mann interview in web resource page)
A:
Cybor logging
2) Steve Mann's concept of opposing camera surveillance with "Sousveillance" is described as
a form of “reflectionism”. What is meant by this?
(in ReadingsF
A:
its showing to the watchers above us that they can also be watched using the same technology they use.
and asking them if they like to be watched the same way they do.
3) In the section of "Sousveillance" called "Performance Two" Steve Mann describes how wearing his
concealed device becomes more complex when used in what type of spaces?
A:
Like in a mall, the mall is a semi public place. there is usually a confrontation with the security
department because is very obvious he is wearing a recording device, where as the security persolnal conceal
the cameras in their uniforms.
4) The final paragraph sums up what Mann considers the benefits of "sousveillance" and "coveillance".
What are they?
(ReadingsF)
A:
challenges the current form of surveillance and shows the big inequalities there are interms of public fairness.
we are not allowe to bring our cameras in to take pictures, but they can take our picture whenever they want.
if we were to use coveillance, we would use both sousveillance and surveillance at the same time. every one would be recording
what they do so everone would be able accountable for their own actions, and there would be no need for survaillance
5) In William J Mitchell's 1995 book "City of Bits" in the chapter "Cyborg Citizens",
he puts forth the idea that electronic organs as they shrink and become more part of the body will
eventually resemble what types of familiar items?
(ReadingsF)
A:
the electronic organs would be more interconnected with the human body as they are made without
any plastic materials and they would fit the human body lie clothing.
6) From the same book/chapter, list two of the things that a vehicle that 'knows where it is'
might afford the driver & passengers.
(ReadingsF)
A: A vehicle that knows its location can find the shortest route a driver
needs to go and also locate surrounding places the driver might want to go.
7) Mitchell tells the story of Samuel Morse's first Washington-to-Baltimore telegraph message.
What was it?
(ReadingsF)
A:
What hath God wrought
8) Donna Harroway in "A Cyborg Manifesto" argues that women should take the "battle to the border".
What does she say are the stakes in this border war?
(in ReadingsF)
A:
the war in the border is between machine and organism fighting for territories of production,
reproduction and imagination.
9) Harroway posits the notion that:
"We require regeneration, not rebirth, and the possibilities for our reconstitution include
the utopian dream"
What is this dream?
(in ReadingsF)
A:
The Utopian dream is a world with no gender
10) Many have argued that 'we are already cyborgs' as we use devices such as glasses to improve our
vision, bikes to extend the mobility function of our legs/bodies etc, computers and networks to extend the
nervous system etc. What do you think? Are we cyborgs?
(one paragraph)
I think that in the future we would become more like cyborgs. human technology is going to advance more
and we would be able to mix our bodies with electronic parts so that we can walk agin after losing a leg
with our fully computerized metal leg. we would be able to interact with our surrundings in a virtual world
technology. but as of today even though our lives revolve around all this technology, cell phones, computers, internet
we can still survive in our regular lives without using them, we don't depend on them to survive, may be to work
