{"id":37255,"date":"2012-04-04T18:09:15","date_gmt":"2012-04-04T18:09:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/googles-project-glass-imagines-the-cyborg\/"},"modified":"2012-04-04T18:09:15","modified_gmt":"2012-04-04T18:09:15","slug":"googles-project-glass-imagines-the-cyborg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/googles-project-glass-imagines-the-cyborg\/","title":{"rendered":"Google’s Project Glass Imagines the Cyborg Interface of Tomorrow – Kasia Cieplak-Mayr von Baldegg – Technology – The Atlantic"},"content":{"rendered":"

Google’s Project Glass Imagines the Cyborg Interface of Tomorrow – Kasia Cieplak-Mayr von Baldegg – Technology – The Atlantic<\/a><\/p>\n

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A Response to the Google Project Glass video…<\/p>\n

A new video from Google speculates about how glasses could function as our primary interface with the digital world in the future.\u00a0Project Glass<\/a>\u00a0is the work of Google[x], which\u00a0The<\/em>\u00a0New York Times<\/em>\u00a0described as“the clandestine lab where Google is tackling a list of 100 shoot-for-the-stars ideas.”<\/a>\u00a0Wandering into a growing territory\u00a0known as design fiction<\/a>, Google is hoping to\u00a0spark conversation with users about how this technology might work.<\/a><\/p>\n

Design fiction seeks to push the boundaries of what we expect from technology, Julian Bleecker explains in an interview with the\u00a0Atlantic Video channel<\/a>. Bleecker works with the\u00a0Near Future Laboratory<\/a>, a creative lab, to imagine and design the technologies of tomorrow. He weighs in on the value of thought experiments like this:<\/p>\n

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In my mind, it’s relevant today because playing in the space between fact and fiction is at the heart of the networked world’s media culture. It’s a fertile, fuzzy, fun terrain useful for creative thinking about new possible near futures of unexpected products, services, daily experiences. It’s a powerful way to do design when you want something truly disruptive rather than the same thing as last year, only in a different color. Fiction provides a safe space for design to make objects and props and the experiences people or robots have around those things. It’s safer in the sense that you can think about and design the otherwise untenable because it’s all made up anyway. No one’s going to blame you for being imaginative and using design and fiction to encourage weird new experiences. And then you have a rationale for fooling the guys in blue shirts and yellow ties with the checkbooks who are almost always from Marketing. You enroll them in the fantastic possibilities enough that they *want it, even if, at the beginning of the meeting, they thought they wanted last year’s thing only now with a bigger screen, or that same thing Apple makes, only cheaper, smaller and in party colors.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Google’s Project Glass Imagines the Cyborg Interface of Tomorrow – Kasia Cieplak-Mayr von Baldegg – Technology – The Atlantic A Response to the Google Project Glass video… A new video from Google speculates about how glasses could function as our primary interface with the digital world in the future.\u00a0Project Glass\u00a0is the work of Google[x], which\u00a0The\u00a0New […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[],"tags":[1539],"class_list":["post-37255","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","hentry","tag-emergent-digital-practices","post_format-post-format-link"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6PWot-9GT","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37255","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37255"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37255\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}