Architecture has often looked at science fiction to understand the way that new technologies have an effect on the buildings we create. Here we advocate for a broadening of the canon suggesting that ...there are other traditions and forms of speculative fiction that destabilize the canon through which we imagine the future of buildings. Inspired by the recent coinage of "auto-theory" and the work of feminist writers such as Donna Haraway, Eula Biss, Valeria Luiselli, and Selva Almada we write this essay in the form of a semifictional diary spanning six nonconsecutive days during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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As two Latin American writers operating in English-speaking academia, we draw on our own positionality to think through the consequences that the canon of speculative fiction has on our ability, as designers, to imagine. The paper is driven by the narrative of teaching "online" and turning our home into a 'smart' one while teaching design studios on speculative futures. Interspersed in the narrative are the conversations we had with students during this period and our collective readings of three works of speculative fiction-one proto-science-fiction and two Latin American-which we use to try and make sense of our new forms of (technified) domesticity.
What is the relationship between vision and sound in more‐than‐human environmental sensing? This article traces an ethnography of glaciologists' experiences with technological sensing systems that ...surpass human sensing capabilities, producing an expansion of sensory knowledge that enmeshes both imagery and acoustics. Sound and vision emerge no longer as separate modalities, but in a united vocabulary of sensing in which the human and the machine are collaborators, producing a multi‐eared and multi‐eyed system by which icebergs and glaciers are observed and perceived as a quickly morphing process, rather than as a static object. It examines the manifold aesthetic variations and conversions of data from acoustic sensing systems into sounds and images that work together to reshape the scientific imagination of the cryosphere. This process ultimately reveals how technology changes perceptions and how glaciers, human bodies, and machines become intertwined with each other in a more‐than‐human system that holds the promise to diversify knowledge.
EDUROV is an educational underwater robot proposal from the researchers of the Oceanic Platform of Canary Islands (PLOCAN) and the Computer Vision and Robotics research group of the University of ...Girona (VICOROB), launched in January 2012 with the support of the Spanish Foundation for Science and Technology (FECyT). This program has evolved in the last decade in order to make it more sustainable, allowing the teleoperation of underwater vehicles from anywhere in the world. EDUROVs have passed through several phases, beginning with a basic electronics robot, followed by the incorporation of open-source electronic prototyping platforms and finally reaching the current state of teleoperation. Results based on 1–5 Likert scale questions show that both students and teachers consider the program useful to introduce technical and scientific concepts. It is concluded that the use of low-cost materials and tools that are easy to obtain, following education on sustainability approaches, also makes them possible for use in high schools, and science teachers can easily carry out the activity. Moreover, the possibility of remote teleoperation of underwater vehicles, together with the collaboration among groups of students in different locations that are in contact through these online tools, allows one to motivate students to work on the project from a different perspective.
The purpose of this research work is to evaluate the functionality of the intrusion detection systems (IDS) based on Open Source platforms using the anomalies detection technique, defining several ...concepts about intrusion detection systems. For the evaluation of the IDS a methodology based on the application and quasi-experimental research was used, considering the existing knowledge and the implementation of the cases of: learning, simulation of attacks and application by means of virtual scenarios, on which they were installed the Snort, Suricata and Bro IDS and the different Benchmark tools. The correlation of the alerts issued by both Snort and Suricata using the anomaly detection technique based on statistical data, allowed to determine the true positives (TP) for the effective alerts and the false negatives (FN) for the anomalies.
The Office of Technology Assessment (OTA), which was created by the Technology Assignment Act of 1972, was—and still remains even after its abolishment in 1995—a unique congressional agency. OTA ...provided members of Congress with their own means of understanding and evaluating complex science and technology matters—of which there are no shortages. It spurred an entire literature of academic research both about OTA and the idea of technology assessment more generally. Understanding the legislative history and implementation of the Technology Assessment Act is crucial not just for scholarship, though. OTA was a blueprint for institutionalizing politically accountable technology assessment. Even as technologies advance at rapid rates, OTA still offers valuable lessons that scholars and policy-makers alike ought to glean. This paper places OTA in a contemporary context of (institutionalized) technology assessment. It contributes to a better understanding of OTA's origins by tracing its lineage to a set of federal reports beginning in 1929. It then analyzes OTA's response to pragmatic implementation questions of how to strike a balance between speed, depth, scope, and temporal focus. Lastly, it uses a public values framework to critique OTA's failure to adequately incorporate participatory elements into its processes.
•Understanding the history and implementation of the Technology Assessment Act is crucial for scholarship and policy-makers.•I trace the Office of Technology Assessment's lineage back to a set of federal reports beginning in 1929.•I analyze OTA's implementation, with regards to striking a balance between speed, depth, scope, and temporal focus.•I use a public values framework to critique OTA's failure to adequately incorporate participatory elements into its process.
The history of communications technology is in part a history of miniaturization. The issue of the miniature is here brought to the fore to demonstrate its centrality within technology and visual ...culture. The photograph can be viewed as a miniature in terms of its status as a minute visual reproduction and hence distortion of the exterior world that the camera attempts to capture. That the photograph seizes images of the world to render them miniatures is demonstrated through the history of the medium and through the meanings evoked by its process of reduction. The significance of the photograph as a visual and material miniature is viewed against the backdrop of the multiple meanings evoked by the miniature through its status both as a metaphor and as a tangible object.
Technology and science experiences play a fundamental role in a society of constant changes and the seemingly endless streams of easily accessible information. Because of this, adult continuous ...education has arisen as a means of enhancing the understanding of current social, scientific and technological challenges. The “Technology and Science Experiences virtual scenarios” project aims to engage adults in collaborative learning within Second Life, supplying them with learning resources, sources of expertise and flexible, levelled, engaging activities. The potential of Second Life in education is being explored alongside the creation and implementation of a virtual scenario case study entitled “The solar system”.
Habermas em seu diagnóstico da sociedade não faz uma crítica à razão técnica como tal, maselabora uma crítica à sua universalização, à perda de um conceito mais compreensivo de razão em favor da ...validade excessiva do pensamento científico e tecnológico. Não se trata de preconizar a ruptura radical com a razão técnica, senão situar adequadamente esta dentro de uma teoria da compreensão da racionalidade. Para situar a questão da técnica e ciência dentro da teoria da racionalidade habermasiana, analisamos temas centrais da primeira fase do pensamento do filósofo alemão, como positivismo, tecnocracia, colonização do mundo da vida, suspeita à filosofia da consciência. A delimitação de um espaço legítimo para a técnica e ciência, reconhece sua importância para a reprodução material da sociedade, mas ao mesmo tempo, estabelece o mundo da vida como uma esfera inacessível à razão instrumental, pois legitimamente é regida pela razão comunicativa. A ação não distorcida da razão instrumental está restrita ao sistema. E sua legitimidade ética, política, estética, é estabelecida por algo externo a si, o mundo da vida.
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