Humanizing Technology Prize: The Nominees (Self-Help) | Special Series. Humanizing Technology Prize: The Nominees (Self-Help) | Special Series. The New Digital Literacy | Think Tank. In the 21st century economy, we are the programmers and the programmed. What does that mean? According to the media theorist Douglas Rushkoff, author of Program or Be Programmed, people like to think of technologies and media as neutral and that only their use or content determines their impact.
For instance, "Guns don't kill people, after all, people kill people. " And yet, guns are much more biased toward killing people than, say, pillows — even though many a pillow has been utilized to smother an aging relative or adulterous spouse, Rushkoff points out. Our widespread inability to recognize or even acknowledge the biases of the technologies we use renders us incapable of gaining any real agency through them, Rushkoff argues.
So how can we re-envision our relationship with technology? Watch the video here: Image courtesy of Shutterstock. Envisioning emerging technology — by Michell Zappa. Holographic data storage. Holographic data storage is a potential technology in the area of high-capacity data storage currently dominated by magnetic and conventional optical data storage. Magnetic and optical data storage devices rely on individual bits being stored as distinct magnetic or optical changes on the surface of the recording medium. Holographic data storage records information throughout the volume of the medium and is capable of recording multiple images in the same area utilizing light at different angles. Additionally, whereas magnetic and optical data storage records information a bit at a time in a linear fashion, holographic storage is capable of recording and reading millions of bits in parallel, enabling data transfer rates greater than those attained by traditional optical storage.[1] Recording data[edit] Holographic data storage contains information using an optical interference pattern within a thick, photosensitive optical material.
Reading data[edit] Longevity[edit] Terms used[edit] List of emerging technologies. Agriculture[edit] Biomedical[edit] Displays[edit] Electronics[edit] Energy[edit] IT and communications[edit] Manufacturing[edit] Materials science[edit] Military[edit] Neuroscience[edit] Robotics[edit] Transport[edit] Other[edit] See also[edit] General Disruptive innovation, Industrial Ecology, List of inventors, List of inventions, Sustainable development, Technology readiness level Nano- Molecular manufacturing, Neurotechnology Bioscience Human Connectome Project Ethics Casuistry, Computer ethics, Engineering ethics, Nanoethics, Bioethics, Neuroethics, Roboethics Other Anthropogenics, Machine guidance, Radio frequency identification, National Science Foundation, Virtual reality Transport List of proposed future transport Further reading[edit] IEEE International Conference on Emerging Technologies and Factory Automation, & Fuertes, J.
References[edit] External links[edit] Cell Structure and Function – Advanced Biotechnology. Pranav Mistry: The thrilling potential of SixthSense technology. Massimo Banzi: How Arduino is open-sourcing imagination. TED Playlists | Open-source, open world. Massimo Banzi: How Arduino is open-sourcing imagination.