WEEK 6 QUESTIONS

1) Steve Mann describes his wearable computer invention as a form of architecture for one person.

2) Steve Mann's concept of opposing camera surveillance with "Sousveillance" is described as a form of “reflectionism,” or "inquire -in-performance." Steve Mann's idea of "reflectionism" is best described is best described as a way of surveilling the surveyor. After all if we established the establishment we should be able to created a mirrored image of itself to keep itself in check. If we survey the surveyor we are able to get what we want because after all it is supposed to be a democracy not a police state. 

3) Steve Man Talks about hidden cameras becomes more complexed if used in places that are more surveilled or "semi-public," such as malls. He then goes on to talk about how on the street, in public people become immersed in the playfulness of the camera and don't really mind being filmed whereas in more private places or "semi-public," people reacted much harsher and confrontation was much more prominent. 

4) The final paragraph sums up what Mann considers the benefits of "sousveillance" and "coveillance". The benefits are such ways of "surveying the surveyor," or keeping the establishment in check. Since the dawn of surveillance technology, the use has been primarily one-sided, therefore Mann suggest the use of portable surveilling technology enables individuals membranes of the larger network to unite and strategies against the lack of protection given by the surveyors. 

5)  In William J Mitchell's 1995 book "City of Bits" in the chapter "Cyborg Citizens", he puts forth the idea that electronic organs as they shrink and become more part of the body will eventually resemble clothing and eventually be woven into the fabric of cloth. 

6) A vehicle that knows where it is will able able to do quite a bit Mitchell list quite a few, such as, commentary on local history and listed agricultural products of an area.

7) Mitchell tells the story of Samuel Morse's first Washington-to-Baltimore telegraph message was, "what hath God wrought."

8) Donna Harroway in "A Cyborg Manifesto" argues that women should take the "battle to the border". Donna talks about what is at stake in this battle, things such as "…territories of production, reproduction, and imagination." These a extremely significant things at stake for women because Donna argues that they need to be heard and a utopian world with a one gender society is not possible.

9) The Utopian dream the Harroway is talking about is of a utopian genderless future society. A society where gender is completely transparent and not an issue. She suggest that gender isn't thrown out, but overtime dropped from society.

10)  I do believe that we are cyborgs, this is because of the type of technologies we use effortlessly and dependently daily. I wake up depending on an alarm clock, can interact with people far away live, on a cellphone, and I get around the city depending on traffic lights, MUNI times, and  other machines that are extensions of human desire. I have thought of humans as cyborgs since I first saw the first blue tooth cellphone devices. It was as if people we telecommunicating, lost in the matrix, or completely insane. I believe that the more we urbanize the more we become cyborgs because of our dependency on technologies.