What are aspects of your life that you don’t want to become “smart”? (2)
What if there was a hack and your information got leaked? Do you feel that this is a significant enough threat to revise your previous answer? (3)
Do you trust a company to be respectful of your privacy if they have so much information on your life? (2)
Do you trust your government to be respectful of your privacy or do you think the lust of a 1984 world would be too much for it? (3)
In what single field do you look forward to interconnectivity the most? (3)
How has iot already improved your life? (3)
If it takes significant resources to reverse engineer a technology and it is already doing societal good, is it worth reverse engineering for the sake of investigation? (1)
Do you think that technological progress should be shaped by the dreams of artists from the pasts or do you think that society is evolving at such a rapid pace that these ideals are no longer relevant? (1)
Is pure science for the sake of science not of worth to a critical engineer? (1)
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An integrated speaker and home assistant created by google. Google Home can tell you about the weather, traffic, your flight info, or anything else that’s accessible through the internet. You can interact with it through its voice recognition or its touch screen surface.
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The CCD-Me-Not Umbrella uses infrared light to obscure your motions from the object tracking technology in CCD surveillance cameras. The umbrella is studded with 256 infrared LEDs. In use the umbrella causes the tracking algorithms to recognize non-human forms.
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- What would it take to get to a dystopian society like that in “society of spectacle”
- Do you think that the objects we own will ever be personified such as a refrigerator that seemed smug?
- “How smart does the bed in your house have to be before you’re afraid to go to sleep at night? – really interesting because of how it shows the constant anxiety attached to over measurement of daily activities (aka fitbit)
- Is time really the only commodity left?
- 25% discount of paintings on wall – similar to Amazon kindle adds on screen of kindle until payment
- What exactly does it mean for a “critical engineer” to raise awareness with each technological advance in our techno political literacy?
- Why exactly should the “critical engineer consider the exploit to be the most desirable form of exposure.
- Could there be other solutions to profound problems besides implementing more technology?
- Will the wealth of new data provided by “smart cities” aid anyone in making anyone happier?
- Will technology “literally disappear into the woodwork” as IOT is expanded to the outer reaches of our life?
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