#ip03

Lives are busier than ever! “According to a study by the American Psychological Association, 18 to 35 year olds are the most stressed out generation ever—earning ourselves the nickname “Generation Stress.”” - https://relevantmagazine.com/life/millennials-are-most-stressed-out-generation-and-s-spiritual-problem “stress is caused by three primary factors—money, work, and the economy” -  https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-02-15/americans-just-broke-the-psychologists-stress-record

Stress on its own will kill you, mentally if not physically. However, part of stress (at least for me) is not having enough time in the day. A solution often used is to reduce sleep to get everything done, allowing us to relax. The problem with this is how sleep affects the body.

“Sleep deprivation actually causes the brain to feed off of neurons and synaptic connections“ - http://nypost.com/2017/05/30/the-brain-literally-eats-itself-when-its-overtired-study/ “Your body needs sleep, just as it needs air and food to function at its best. During sleep, your body heals itself and restores its chemical balance. Your brain forges new connections and helps memory retention. Without enough sleep, your brain and body systems won’t function normally. It can also dramatically lower your quality of life. A review of 16 studies found that sleeping for less than 6 to 8 hours a night increases the risk of early death by about 12 percent.” - https://www.healthline.com/health/sleep-deprivation/effects-on-body “If sleep deprivation continues long enough, you could start having hallucinations—seeing or hearing things that aren’t there. A lack of sleep can also trigger mania in people who have manic depression.“ Which I have experienced. More than once I have gone 3 days without sleeping and the most I have gone is 4.

I have seen a lot of people that are troubled with the 30 minimum blogs. And I am one of it. It really makes me confuse what are we doing now? What can I learn from something I lose interested? I don’t want talk about is it right or not that what we are doing now. I just have some feeling that what we are doing now is show the teacher we want the credit more than we want to learn something.

It is not what I want, I can write more than 30 shit blogs because it attaches to minimum 30 and I say yes I did it. The result is I didn’t learn anything, I just finish the homework that my lecture gives. Laurent and Pete are uploaded a lot of useful video or article on Google+.But I didn’t write a blog for each because some of them I dislike.

What is more important to me?Quantity or Quality? 

In each of blog and research, I really paid a lot of time on it. It is not just skin read some book or read a comment on the website. To write down a blog post about a book or an article, it requests me more than I thought. It does not introduce what this book talks about, I have to add my feeling and learning reflection in it. My personal view for this project is we are recording our feeling.What do you feel when you read the books? This kind of topic would be more helpful for me to create a link between the book and myself.

In the 3 different step of ctec500, I most like the IP01. In that time I use all my imagination to transfer the music box. I didn’t have a great sleep in the week because I am making a video with hand drawing. But I don’t feel hard, I enjoy what we are doing.It really develops my creative ability.

At IP02, I didn’t get a great result and I agree is my mistake. I didn’t make a great time plan also make me run out of time in some steps. Some of my friends say don’t worry at least you passed.But I do not feel confident about my mistake. To be honest, I have to say thanks to Pete.It is like the lecturer said we want you to get wrong in the first year.It is not late for me to fix them and improve my work in next time.

Integrative Practice group review (Podcast)

 The six of us decided it would be a good idea to get together to do a bit of a review on the Integrative Practice paper. This first podcast contains our thoughts and opinions around the first two assignments as well as the things we have learn along the way as well as in reflection. The intention of this exercise was for us to see what other people have taken away from this paper, as well as try give some constructive feedback and raise awareness of what it was like from a student’s perspective. We have split this podcast into two sections the reason being that the second is more of a general over view of the paper as well as the last assignment and the first as I have said a reflection on the first two assignments.

Our population is currently at around 7.5 billion and “The world has added one billion people since 2005 and two billion since 1993.” It is predicted we will reach a population of 9.8 billion by 2050.  (United Nations, 2017).

According to Gimenez (2012), we Currently have enough food to feed 10 billion people and people starve because of greed. Furthermore, Edward O. Wilson (2002) also said that the earth can currently support 10 billion people in his book ‘The Future of Life’. However, neither of these sources linked back to any research or where they got their numbers. Alternatly, Waggoner (1996) says we should also consider and leave room for nature to survive, to do this we would need to drastically change our habits.

I believe (and I am not alone) that we can easily feed everyone on this planet with our current food productions. So why do people go hungry? Three main reasons Greed, Wastage, and poverty gaps. “The global volume of food wastage is estimated at 1.6 billion tonnes of ‘primary product equivalents.’ Total food wastage for the edible part of this amounts to 1.3 billion tonnes.” (Food wastage: Key facts and figures, n.d.). The average person eats 500kg per year (How Much Food Does the Average Person Eat per Year, 2013) so dividing that from the edible part of the food waste, that is enough to feed 2,600,000 people for a year.

The solution to wase food is up to you. How much food do you throw out or is left uneaten? how often do you overeat? If you own a business, how much food goes to waste there?

One solution to growing more food without destroying more forests is vertical farming.

With vertical farming, you can grow a lot more in a smaller land area. This has shown to be very effective when adding hydroponics and LED lighting. This video goes into the basics of the idea:

"The world has enough for everyone's need, but not enough for everyone's greed." -  Mahatma Gandhi

References: 

Food wastage: Key facts and figures. (n.d.). Retrieved 10 24, 2017, from Food and Agriculture  Organization of the United Nations:  http://www.fao.org/news/story/en/item/196402/icode/

Gimenez, E. H.  (2012, 02 05). We Already Grow Enough Food For 10 Billion People — and  Still Can’t End Hunger. Retrieved from The Huffington Post:  https://www.huffingtonpost.com/eric-holt-gimenez/world-hunger_b_1463429.html

How Much Food  Does the Average Person Eat per Year. (2013). Retrieved 10 24,  2017, from A to Z of Brain, Mind and Learning:  http://health.learninginfo.org/how-much-food-average-person-eat-per-year.htm

United Nations,  D. o. (2017). World Population Prospects: The 2017 Revision, Key Findings and Advance Tables. New York: United Nations.

Waggoner, P. E.  (1996). How Much Land Can Ten Billion People Spare for Nature? Daedalus,  The Liberation of the Environment, 125(3), 73-93. Retrieved 10 23, 2017,  from http://www.jstor.org/stable/20027371

The article “Is It Time To Go Back To Basics With Writing Instruction? “ by mind shift, says many students struggle with expressing their ideas through writing and many students are at a low writing level. They speak of a teaching style/course that teaches from the basics.

I believe writing is a limited medium, yes it is important, no it shouldn't dictate everything. In Highschools, most subjects (at least the graded ones) are either marked in math or English from my experience. If you do not excel at Literacy or Numeracy, you can be extremely limited. Another problem is the content as is introduced in the following music video:

Sure, it is a bit controversial, but, he raises good points. School hasn't changed in over a century. We have made huge advancements and the whole world is a different place now, yet the school system hasn't changed at all. This is talked about very well here.

So what can we do? We need to change, the world is going in the way of creativity, most of the factory line jobs that school was designed for don't exist anymore and the rest won't exist in the near future. School needs to stop killing creativity (and it does) and start making it stronger. According to the following article, Creative jobs will be the last to be automated.

http://fortune.com/2015/04/22/robots-white-collar-ai/

Reflecting on how technology makes people more powerful (BUSH, 1945).

This is taken back to 1945 to the vision of scientist Vannevar Bush and the reflections that he had at the end of WW||. He was heavily influenced by the war effort that has just ended. As he was traveling across the pacific, he was reflecting on the computing technology during the war effort and the functions of machines but he was also reflecting on the state of science. Part of what he did in this piece was trying to imagine a new use in a new future for some of the technologies that people have been using for the past decade. He predicted and looked for a vision for our community in era where the science would be able to change dramatically because of how information technology would be able to pull together the fabrication of information available to us and create new ways that would support human cognition, collaboration and discovering an innovation. To do so, he envisioned a machine for us called the ‘memex’. Memex would be a store house of the wars information, documents, books and journals associated with science because up until then, science changed dramatically but the practice of science was the same. This machine would argument the people’s natural capability in terms of how they’ll be able to visualise information, how they would be able to see it on the screen, and it would become a memory that is being replaced. This would help them follow an associative trail, not traditional trails. An associative trail that mirrored how people thought and worked through the information. For this innovation, he also understood that how people interacted with information was critical so it needed to be visually available, it needed to be able to communicate and collaborate but being able to interact with the information was the main aspect.

Before memex was designed with features that would help us do these extremely easy work, and because this was 1945 when Bush envisioned this, it is two years before the invention of the first transistor. It was really the transistor and nothing else that lead to todays modern computers and all their capabilities. Therefore, Bush was limited to a sense of him not seeing the invention of a core technologies that were needed to build the machine that he needed to realise for his vision. But instead, he tried to coach the vision in the terms of the day. What he mainly talks about is the systems of microfilm but because he had set his heart on one thing, it would’ve totally be invisible for him to create. He did live to see the dawn of the transistor age and the computer age and the dawn of the machines that were able to start to realise his visions but it was really the act of connecting these machines together.

I would then argue the closest thing in his vision is the idea of a search engine. Rather than having to think about all the things now that we don’t have to remember about the world, it is so easy to look up things on the search engine and for these, new interfaces are built to work this function and one common example in this modern world is ‘Google’ and Google now has nearly the same service as Bush’s vision from what it was imaged to be to what it is now in todays world. (Chartio, 2017). These tools allow us to voice query these data bases of information and have them answer these questions about the world. These are some additional things that we do not have to pack into our brain and not worry about encoding the memories. An example of this would be uploading photos on Facebook and a year later, it would notify you as a memory and this is triggering our memories in many ways.

This is sad but I think if VANNEVAR BUSH was alive today, he would’ve seen the reality of his vision. He died in 1974 but if he was alive, I think he would recognise a lot of his vision of the memex in today’s internet.

This article has a far visionary thinking and hypothesizing that goes on it and it is a great example of someone who again would not understand that technologies that were required because they hadn't been invented. Yet at the time, they wrote the article but understood some of the things that they wanted to build and the ways that they could put this technology to use to argument and to complement human intelligence

Another important piece for the internet vision. A good artist copies, a great artist steals.

Final Sound Composition/ Edit

This soundscape includes many things that are nostalgic for people of a similar age, 90′s children. It includes sounds from toys, especially the Tamagotchi and music from TV shows. This is a basic reflection of my childhood. The first part of the sounds are more harsh and dramatic, it the gradually becomes softer and more melodic. This is able to give off nostalgic and calming effects.