The phenomenal of Augmented Reality and Virtual Reality has a great impact on many industry from real estate to healthcare. Global Healthcare Augmented Reality and Virtual Reality market is projected at $5.1 billion by 2025 by Zion Market Research. The technology brings in more flexibility in dealing with complication in healthcare industry. However, it is…
Lynne Yun-Find the Code Behind Type Design
Lynne Yun is a type designer and educator based in New York City. She is famous for her work in typography, hand lettering, and calligraphy. Lynne enjoys the balancing act of form and function that is required when designing tools for communication, from crafting handwritten calligraphic pieces to designing type for the screen. As a…
Future technology should focus on giving people more possibilities instead of limiting
The “Black Mirror” Nosedive clip combines AR technology, social media, and socioeconomic systems. In this worldview, people can rate each other from 1 to 5 stars during interactions. Each person’s final comprehensive score will affect the social resources they can get in life. Such as apartment qualifications, air tickets, discounts, etc. I am very longing…
“Nosedive” versus Real-world
The “Nosedive” deals with an era in which social network scores determine everything in life. The only person who can decide who “I” is the SNS score given by the opponent. If they have caused trouble to others or done something wrong, anyone who has witnessed the sight can cut their reputation scores. I don’t…
Thoughts on Privacy in Sci-Fi and IoT
Sci-fi movies bring people not only visual and sensory experience, but also philosophical and political thinking about science and technology and the future. Many sci-fi books or movies have mentioned topics like “chip” and “consciousness upload”. Similar elements appear in the trailers of Feed and Alternative Carbon, which shows that people have never stopped thinking…
The Ethics of The Technology
“Nosedive” not only looks at how social media affects society, but also imagines how it might be changed in the future. The Atlantic describes this episode as “a version of America where every tiny interaction is ranked by the people involved on an app that [is synced] with augmented-reality contact lenses.” The episode focuses on…
A Dystopian Utopia
When we think about the word “dystopia,” we usually think about movies that have to deal with zombies or catastrophic disasters. We visualize the dystopian world as an apocalyptic atmosphere or a disoriented society with people that are consistently suffering. However, technology dystopia may pull the trick on us to believe otherwise, shaping the illusion…
