John Maeda

Historical Notion

• Convention computation has the problem of being invisible, and human computation share the same problem.
  • Many women, first to programing in the ENIAC were long uncredited.
  • 🗯 The book [[202007301613 Computational Thinking]] helped me look and know many fathers of computation.
• Weizenbaum spent his years after inventing [[Eliza]] speaking out about the dangers that computation posed to society, rather than profiting from or growing his career of his groundbreaking invention
  • While today we expect any ambitious technologist to immediately rush ther invention to market wihtou hesitation. ★
• The world "telemetry" was coined in the ninetenth-century. Descrived the use fo an electrical apparatus that transmitted the snow depth from Mont Blank
  • 🗯 Nowadays telemetry is a plug and play feature (analytics)

Computational Thinking

• We should focus on understanding computation. Because when we combine design with computation, a kind of magic results; when we combine business with computation, great financial opportunities can emerge. ★
• Computational design: bytes, pixels, voice, and AI. We use to virtually craft in the digital world.
• Once initiated, the computational process will run at top speed form the very moment it comes alive. And if were to hit some kind of error, it would immediately stop. The entire world it lived within would vanish in that same instant too.
• Each successive loop introduces a new dimensions
  • 🗯 I never thought that each loop is a new dimension, an entire new world inside a procedure machine
• How to speak both machine and to speak humanism?
  • Technologist = I do, because I can
  • Humanist = I do, because I care
• The cloud is not just a network of computers but a network connection human beings
• The grand task of addressing the impending automation of an imbalanced society is upon us right now ★
• Symbolic computation: Fancy name for arranged in a series of IF-THEN. Less about calculations and more about processing higher-level-informations.
• Maeda believes we are entering in the fourth phase of computational. Human intelligence is blended with computational intelligence.
  • 🗯 How we translate real-world information into the digital world?
  • 🗯 How can we work in tools to make a symbiosis of human and machine?

Art, Technology and Design