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Life Imitates Art at Intel
figa writes "Eric Paulos and Elizabeth Goodman at Intel's Research Laboratory at Berkeley are using the Situationists' exploration of urban space and psychologist Stanley Milgram's social experiments to design wearable devices."
A signifigant portion of the subjects did this. Meaning that you have a good chance of being a sheep too. Thats the scary part...
baaa...
A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government. -edward abbey
Has anyone done any studies that have pointed to the opposite? That people are encumbered by too many gadgets, and work best with limited exposure?
I've seen too many people who use PDAs, making it harder for them to get things done (have to spend 5x as long writing information compared to using a pen/paper)
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The Situationists made the powers-that-be so nervous, that when they helped catalyze the revolt in 1968 that had virtually every blue collar worker in France on strike, it was the French Communist Party that ultimately had to put it down.
You can be sure Debord would put a gun to his head before doing R&D for the Intel corporation. In his last book, he said he feared the spectacle would try to integrate even his ideas in some borg-like fashion, and thus he had to be even more cryptic than he already was. It seems his fears have come true. Paulos is spectacular all the way.