Thank you Michael and Dave for your replies... Today I was attending a lecture session by Adam Greenfield about "Elements of a Networked Urbanism". The ideas he was showing us were great, cities with great level of intelligence which could be our future cities but still I've found the same struggle within my mind and I would like to share it with you,here it is.." during late 80's and 90's medias started to create a new future for human beings with lots of movies and comic books and stories, A future in which every single object has its own intelligence and they try to show that life would be so much easier in near future and put this concept in mind of every child during those years. Now we found out that those utopias that we have created on those days have tons of side effects which at the time of their creation we were not aware of them or they were not so important as today. Now we start to think about finding the way to solve those problems ( side effects) . The good part is we actually looking for a way to solve these problems but the dangerous part is that we still use new technologies to solve our problems without concerning about its future side effects which we may cause for next generation...let me give an example:
we created a mp3 player which every individual can listen to the music she/he wants.after years we are facing a group of people which all of them wearing headphones and stand side by side of each other on queues without even thinking about the other persons that are by her/his side (iPod life Style)..after few years Psychological studies reveals that we are facing a new problem " People become lonely " and this cause lots of social problems. Then we start to solve these new emerged problems by offer people new devices which instead of only playing music , help them to communicate with other people around them via Blue tooth or WiFi connections. But there is nobody to tell us hey..the only thing that these people really needs is face to face communication with other people just like the things that they had before we changed their life Style. I'm Wondering How can we address these Needs and How we can come up with new ideas that in future would not cause of these problems? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=47301 ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... disc...@ixda.org Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help
