SciFi IXD

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Science fiction writers have been writing about future technology for as far back as H.G. Wells at the turn of the century. They often write ideas based on current science and then infuse them with fantasy or their extrapolations of where that technology is going. The Personal Dynamic Media that Alan Kay and Adele Goldberg presented was a mockup of a future envisioned idea.

In Old Man’s War, John Scalzi envisions every person having an external PDA and also an internal BrainPal. Sketch your idea of what the PDA and BrainPal interfaces and interactions might look like or how they might work based on the descriptions in the story? Scalzi is writing about a future state of people on other planets so consider how evolved these devices / interfaces might be compared to today.

Post your sketches and any annotations to the class blog. Make sure to select the SciFi category.

• The “Shock-Factor”
  by Elaine Choi
  Science Fiction provides viewers with a stylized portal into the future, where we can see what it may look like. These shows are based on the writers’ understandings of today,…
• PDA/BrainPal
  by Ruth Bhavsar
• Devices of the Future
  by Elspeth Tordoff
  This is how I imagine John Scalzi’s futuristic device looks like + his BrainPal
• PDA & BrainPal
  by Vincent Chen
• Communicate with cats by PDA and brainpal
  by Tai Hao
• PDA and BrainPal: To Self & To Others
  by Jasmine Sun
• Check it out! The new PDA
  by Hermione Hu
• PDA&BrainPal Sketch
  by DeeDee Kwon
• My External PDA and Internal BrainPal Sketch
  by Betty Deng
• Mapping the Futures of Other Worlds
  by Elaine Choi
  In reading John Scalzi’s Old Man’s War, I found that my mind was drawn to imagine the described extrnal PDA’s and internal BrainPal™ interfaces to be similar to our current…
• Envision of PDA and BrainPal
  by Ted Huang
• Imagined PDA and Brain Pal
  by Mengyao Xiu
  Brain Pal Inspired by John Scalzi’s fiction, I am thinking of the way to combine AR interfaces with actual objects. For example, people can plug in chargers into the interfaces…
• PDA and BrainPal interfaces
  by Lylyna Heng
  PDA Sketch and BrainPal Interface + Interaction Scalzi’s writing had covered many aspects of the possibilities that humans could interact with a smart device and its useful in making life…
• PDA & Brainpal’s Effects on the Future
  by Evan Tang
• PDA & BRAINPAL
  by Zijie Zhou
• New technology of the Old Man’s War: PDA and Brain Pal
  by Elena Wang
• PDA and BrainPal: The Future of Technology
  by Jonahtan Rabago
• PDA + BrainPal
  by Noah Ahrens
  Brain Pal Sound Sight Verbal feedback Thought feedback PDA Medical feedback Stylus Tangible All-functioning device
• Brain Pal & PDA Sketch
  by Brian Zhao
• Let The Brain Talk
  by Rebecca Lin
  I was thinking maybe in the future, the PDM connection is not only between humans but also with animals (or even plants). We can then feel everything on this planet,…
• Wild Thoughts on future devices in “Old Man’s War”
  by Amanda Liu
• PDA & Brain Pal for CDF
  by Philip Joo
  Here’s what I got from the reading of the PDA and Brain Pal’s capabilities/features. Once the features were written down, I sketched out my design of the PDA. From the…
• PDA And BrainPal
  by Peter Peng
• Meet your PDA and BrainPal
  by Anh Truong
• future envisioned idea
  by Betty Li
  Notes Sketches: 1:Navigation——This navigation is displayed on the glasses, leading them go to the stateroom. 2:Microphone—— Can contact other people and give instructions. 3:Screen on the wrist 4:Time——When the time…
• PDAandBrainPal
  by John Cho
  PDA: Health check Indication thru brain pal, Warning when health get worse Alarm: pop up screen with music, Music get silenced after touching the snooze button. BrainPal: Transfer Neural data,…
• Old Man War Tech
  by Corey Rossi
  I took a bit of a different direction and drew the PDA to look like it came out of Back to the Future (the movie). I also made it that…