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Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
mediaarchaeologylab@post.lurk.org ("media archaeology lab") wrote:
This is the activity we did with students today, and we'd love to hear your responses as well...
1. Pick an older device you have access to.
2. Identify it! (when is it from, what is it called, what is it for, what kind of device is it?)
3. Turn it on, use it as though you've never touched it or seen it before, try to understand it just by interacting with it.
And then reflect on the following...
4. How does it look backwards - what does it have that previous technologies also had?
5. How does it look forwards - what does it have that present-day technologies also have?
6. How does it diverge - what does it have that previous technologies didn’t have and present-day technologies didn’t keep?
7. In what ways is it a kind of “wish fulfillment”, trying to make previously fictional technologies real?