Arquivo para October, 2013
Bare life and Digital Vertigo
31
Oct
There is no doubt that we live in a ‘ bare life ” category Giorgio Agamben also means that there is a common man who is the ” homo sacer” this ignored by the state and the laws , who live in slums , shanties , who do not reach the benefits of society.
Bare life , as opposed to those who might think that it is life that is “transparent” in social networks , or other category socio- political , is for Agamben an area highly artificial power structures generate the delete protection legal forms life that are not subjected to your order.
The ” homo sacer ” is this common man sentenced to banishment by Roman law , through the Nazi concentration camps , but present in the prisons of Guantanamo and throughout the Arab world , using a feature Keen , could use the Brazilian short-filme Window of My room (2004) , Cao Guimarães , which shows two bodies in combat , choreography sensual and aggressive .
With imagination influenced by filmmaker Alfred Hitchcock , Keen uses film, Vertigo , as a starting point, Keen tries to lead us to believe that social media , with its huge generation of personal data , would lead us to think that our true identities today would only be present on the internet of course thinking that people are not and do not know .
Overexposure , he made over the internet , but he does not speak of “bare life” and “homo sacer” , is an excess of transparency Keen calls “publicalidade” , a mix of publishing and advertising , where everyone would know all the other , but if they do not know to use the groups and privacy restrictions , which is very different is the use of private information by organizations and government agencies , it is the “security ” .
QR, what is
30
Oct
Being a two-dimensional code, QR (Quick Response) can store more information than exponentially
one -dimensional bar code (white and black is 0 is 1) , storing content information complex , adjacent to the URL , for example, directs this blog .
The code was generated from the Google url shortener , then selecting ” details” .
Using some gadget camera or scanner , the code is converted into text, which can then be interpreted as using the text ( interactive) , with a URI address , phone number , located georeferenced , an email, a contact or SMS .
The QR Code was first used in the production of vehicles, but is now used both in inventory management and inventory control in industry and commerce.
From 2003 applications were developed to facilitate users to enter data in mobile phone using the phone’s camera .
QR codes are also common in magazines and advertisements , to record addresses and URLs , as well as detailed personal information.
The bionic man today
29
Oct
He already has human functions : walk, talk , and he has a beating heart (which can do exactly the function of
the human heart ) , but its purpose is not human , is to show the human functions made by technology, and that reason they are first totally bionic man in the world ( bionic man)
So he is ” a mixture of body parts , the bionic man is an amalgam of the most advanced human prostheses ,” as stated in the magazine LiveScience , ” the robotic limbs to artificial organs Circulatory System pumping blood ,” the floor and simulations take as perfect man .
The creature ” came to life ” in ” The Incredible Bionic Man ,” which premiered on Sunday ( October 20 ) at the Smithsonian Channel in a video (see the video of the Bionic Man) .
The devices used in the different organs were developed by different laboratories , such as the eye and the heart, such as prostheses that can be implanted in humans.
Still just merely a machine , without any kind of sense , the fiction of man is six million dollars , or Bicentennial Man , are still in the cinema .
He already has human functions : walk, talk , and he has a beating heart (which can do exactly the function of the human heart ) , but its purpose is not human , is to show the human functions made by technology, and that reason they are first totally bionic man in the world ( bionic man) .
So he is ” a mixture of body parts , the bionic man is an amalgam of the most advanced human prostheses ,” as stated in the magazine LiveScience , ” the robotic limbs to artificial organs Circulatory System pumping blood ,” the floor and simulations take as perfect man .
http://www.livescience.com/40535-show-unveils-worlds-first-bionic-man.html
The creature ” came to life ” in ” The Incredible Bionic Man ,” which premiered on Sunday ( October 20 ) at the Smithsonian Channel in a video (see the video of the Bionic Man) .
The devices used in the different organs were developed by different laboratories , such as the eye and the heart, such as prostheses that can be implanted in humans.
Yet it is only a machine , without any kind of feeling , the fiction of Man of the six million dollars , or Bicentennial Man , are still in the cinema.
Study shows use of technology in teaching
28
Oct
The study Learning Objects in the Classroom: Resources , Methods and Strategies for Improving the Quality of Education was developed over two years by a research group at the University UNESP Araraquara in Brazil, that evaluated the performance of 400 students from eight classes 2 and 3 ° years of high school with the class of learning objects , which are the technological resources that allow some interaction with the content , such as animations , simulations and educational games .
The use of games is already common and integrating the game Minegraft , eg using building blocks ,
is now used worldwide to teach literacy and mathematics aggregate biology (photo )
Research has shown that students in the classroom who had used technological tools had higher yields by taking as a basis the average five or below this value had a gain of 51 % performance in physics and mathematics , the project is coordinated by Professor Silvio Fiscarelli department didactic UNESP Araraquara .
Also, students with an average above five , had an average gain of 13 % , showing that the appropriate use of technology is beneficial to education .
For the project were used 20 technological tools in the classroom, with some created by the core teaching of UNESP , but most was used for educational repositories as BIOE ( Bank for International Educational Objects ) and rived , the SEED program (Department of Education distance ) or translated in international repositories .
The project now has the support of FAPESP (Research Support Foundation of the State of São Paulo ) , and extend the study to 660 students , with 600 students being done in the three years of high school , and extended to the areas of Portuguese , chemical and philosophy.
Besides the training of teachers , this new phase will also include 35 notebooks , so that students no longer need to go to the computer lab with the activities are carried out within the classroom .
Internet security company and world
26
Oct
The reasons confess to spying on the network leaked by Edward Snowden , a former official of the
U.S. National Security Agency ( NSA , its acronym in English ) , and inconfessas which is the desire of the state to control its citizens , opened debates about national security and privacy and taking global proportions .
However , for now , there are more proposals were rejected than statements about what they want , the reason is the complexity of interests involved in a debate , and motivators among countries is Brazil .
In the United States , one of the promoters is study center Wilson Center in Washington , more present , however the view of experts that political issues , but at least brought fundamental questions on the technical and ethical .
What they desire is to harness the desire of governments to citizens patrol , not always terrorists , but not respect fundamental freedoms and privacy rights in Western societies , it would be possible ?
The confrontational discourse of ” sovereignty ” is an ideological appeal to national issues , the demonstrations in France , a country with a nationalist color highlights on the expulsion of aliens , seems to strike a chord among the young .
Attempting to national states , creating networks ” own ” , called by experts ” Balkanization ” is nothing more than repeat the nationalist discourse and fail to see the world as it already is , ie , a society – world as Edgar Morin calls .
So , if we have a solution that it is global , without taking away freedom of world relations , networking, of all humanity , respecting the privacy of every internet user .
More confused minds the Web
25
Oct
In a report in brazilian magazine Epoca, also the book of Mark Bauerlein to Nicholas Carr, author 
of The dumbest generation there is a pessimistic analysis in that it anticipates a new Dark Age , when individuals who are now children and adolescents reach maturity .
In analyzing this author in Epoca magazine , ” once youthful minds restless and full of knowledge , what we see in schools is an anti -intellectual culture and consumerism ” , attributed to Bauerlein , a professor at Emory University in Georgia , which oversees studies about American cultural life .
His study on the influence of digital media was done with 81,000 American high school students and second it was found that 90 % ” read or study ” less than five hours per week , and spend many hours watching TV , surfing the internet or playing video games , an average of 6 hours per week , and then takes to conclusions , saying ” do not know practically nothing of history” , etc. .
I do not know if the data of the 60 youth would be different , just did not have internet and had the war in Vietnam and Brazil , were times of military rule , and even speak the word dictatorship was forbidden , educational systems were repressive and little inventive , luckily I entered the first class of computing and had some regular teachers , who read and reported on the country’s history , but was also minority.
We read romance, but it was something with sugar water , but we really wanted was a color TV to watch the Brazil game , can not remember if he sang ” this is a country that will put forward will ” actually liked math and I only understand policy when I entered the university, but I am the fruit of the hippie generation and the ” hairy ” .
The lessons were always silly stories , had to memorize dates and know what were the ” national heroes ” finally no critical analysis of reality , the university was reading because it was an alternative set of left and needed to have arguments against the ” dictatorship ” today I thank the “rebels ” of my youth , without them I would also be a ” dumbest generation” .
How long we were in front of the TV culture engulfing canned ? what they say about Arab or Muslim culture in our newspapers ? someone knows something of African culture ? Whose dumpest generation ?
The problems that befell this generation has no connection to the lost generation (1914 – 1924) , the baby boomers generation ( 46-64 ) and hippie generation ( 64-84 ) ? is it only now are ” dumbest ” ?
The brain Carr and the Internet
24
Oct
For over a century we are questioning modernity , the Enlightenment and our values , suddenly 23 years now
found a scapegoat : the internet and one application that is Web.
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Take this fact to say that the Web with all pomp and mystification that many attribute to it , is nothing more than an application in the last layer of the internet, and yes this means the connection between millions of machines and people.
So I take seriously Nicolas Carr a harsh critic of the internet , he participates in the design of cloud computing World Economic Forum , regularly writes about technology and culture in The Guardian , The New York Times , The Wall Street Journal , The Financial Times , Die Zeit , the Times and other newspapers, is member of the Encyclopedia Britannica , but has no entry in Wikipedia, but he is there.
In “The shallows” , he clarify that the issue is before the internet thing he knows, though mental journey that Carr in his own brain , the birth of the alphabet, the Gutenberg press , the anticipation of the computer by Alan Turning and even the event of cartography and the appearance of the watch.
New slide to not see a convergence of “media”, but a merger, it reduces the internet to “a binding force of all technologies precursors “: typewriter and typography ; map and clock , calculator and phone, mail and library ; radio and television .
In new reductionism applies to Taylorism , work method in assembly lines to what he calls mental, ” In the past the man was first. In the future the system must be first. “, is not true, the future is different of the past, it is law of history.
What Taylor envisioned for manual labor , Carr Google applies to mental work , creating a “business of distraction ” in which intelligence is now seen as the excellence and speed in data processing , instead of observation and contemplation .
Now the “society of the spectacle” , “society of the replica” , the text of Walter Benjamin “The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction ,” was published in 1955 , the fragmentation of knowledge and superficiality are themes from long then you need to find the time and the real motives of this “superficiality” contemporary .
European Parliament for digital privacy
23
Oct
The committee of the European Parliament for digital privacy, Libe, approved on Monday a new draft regulations for the 
privacy issue , the document follows the great initiative of the European Commission for more data security .
Across Europe , digital privacy advocates agree that there are on the right track , it is urgent to tighten legislation to protect internet users .
One of the rules is to make more visible what appears almost imperceptible on their data , the clauses that are usually hidden in the general conditions, and are presented as the default setting when you register on some website .
Companies with headquarters outside the EU although they can circumvent the existing safety data , they should seek those with laws more flexible , which made Ireland and the United Kingdom ‘s most popular destinations , but the situation should change with the adoption of equal rules for the entire block.
One of the proposed rules Libe is that users can delete their personal network more easily , allowing clear without being previously stored .
Users also have the right to know which companies or government agencies also your data may be transferred , this means privacy.
Ranking of digital natives
22
Oct
The idea that there are digital immigrants , those adults that little more evil or adapt technologies and that there are
digital natives , generations born after the Web and has less than 24 years is the best justification for the many prejudices with the use of technology.
Who questions the use of the car , or even the TV which was widely questioned in the 60s and 70s ? Generation ” erring ” and was passed up questioning consumption and wars , but in the end everything turned fashion jeans and peace has not been achieved despite the end of the Vietnam War .
Now the generation that has between 15 and 24 years is stigmatized , ” superfluous ” or ” without focus and without focus ” actually means little or nothing , the social and cultural problems of our time are the result of their own and not on whether or not technologies , unfortunately the consumer society is there and has not yet been overcome.
Brazil is the fourth country in the world in digital natives , those under 24 years, China in first with 75.2 million young people in this age , the data are from the International Telecommunication Union ( ITU , its acronym in English ) .
The United States is second, with 41 million digital natives , India comes in third with 22.7 million people , and Brazil has 20.1 million .
The term was first used in 2001 by Marc Prensky , in the article ” Digital Natives , Digital Immigrants ” , published in the work On The Horizon , NBC University Press
Device cell with smell
21
Oct
Some years ago the Japanese discovered that it was possible to transmit smell, turned into
sound waves , the device now , called Scentee , the iPhone is connected to vent odors triggered by a command cell as the BBC news .
But this will not be as magical as well , for this the Scentee have a set of special cartridges with special odor , that when combined create other smells , and the promise is that the device will be released in Japan next month .
The computer teacher at City University London Adrian Cheok , who work in the development of the equipment said : ” If you’re in a good mood and wants to send a nice message for your friend , you can send with a perfume” , but added ” it is also possible send a stinky gas , if you had a bad day , “he says .
As explained Cheok device should have other applications in the future , for example , send a message ” but with a smell along .”
The idea is to transmit smells old , in the 1960s , a system called Smell- O-Vision was created to emit odors during the presentation of a film , but this project did not prosper and eventually abandoned
