Metaphoras

Humanity  has a need to express itself. Ways of doing this are through communication and creativity. The role of creativity is to constantly shake up old ideas, to always be making something new. Time and space are an important part of creativity. We can only account for time and space through a person’s experience of it. We look at how a work of art will unfold, the sequence of time in a movie, or where our eyes will travel on the space of a painting. The art of architecture controls how we move through space and the time it takes us to move through it- it is interactive in its art. Cyberspace is a new public form of architecture. It is conditioned through timing because physcial distance is no longer a problem and therefore neither is the time spent traveling. Digital film making has also changed the meaning of time and space. Though real time is passing, editing techiques can manipulate how we view time within the film. Space is also manipulated giving the audience multiple perspectives of a a scene. The article also points out that a computer is made out of time. It is continuous and discrete and controlled by the coxwain, sending out millions of pulses per second. The chircuit has changed the ways of time and space. It is merely a series of ones and zeros yet is the creatice design of the circuit that allows us to view it as a form of space in which a click of a button takes us from one location to another. Discussions of space talk about the issue of real and unreal in terms of experience. The space of the internet is boundless, with no limit to how far it can go. Music only exists through time. Where is it played is its only space. Today digital music is performed in the realm of the circuit. The circuit makes the music being played performed both to a private audience (ipod) and a public audience with an infinite number of listeners. Do you think that the internet truly enables you to defy space and time, allowing you to virtually be in two places at once?

Virtual Hunting

A man wants to share the hunting experience with anyone who wants to participate via the internet. It would enable customers to see what its like to hunt-shooting with a click of the mouse and killing live animals. Another man believes that almost all hunters will be opposed  to this. It is not ethical and not the right way to hunt. There is a state law being proposed that requires a hunter to be on site before they can kill an animal. Do you think that virtual hunting is unethical? Does it deny a person the true hunting experience? Do you think that being able to shoot a gun with a mouse click will make it so that people will not fully realize the total impact a gun can have?

Virtual Iraq

A new technology is helping soldiers confront their memories of war. Its called virtual iraq and it attacks PTSD in the way a soldier would. The program uses the  training of soldiers to turn against bad memories. It takes them back to Iraq in a virtually very real setting…right up to the smells and sounds. A soldier is told rel start to recount and start to describe a memory and the doctor makes it happen in virtual reality. The theory of treatment is to gain control of the experience. Some say its not what they want and that it is easier to avoid painful memories…but that makes the memories maintain the power  that they have over you. It is better to face them and make peace with them. If you were a soldier suffering from PTSD would you be willing to participate in this program?