Week 12 DAI 227 Questions. Worth 2 points each.
1) In the article "Between a Blob + a Hard Place" Steven Skov Holt & Mara Holt Skov argue in the File InCA_Spring05.pdf (on page 20) that the 'blobject' phenomenon really took off in the ID (industrial design) profession in the 1990s. Why?
It took off in industrial design basically because of CAD (computer automated design), different modeling techniques and different ways to rapidly proto-type different designs. Crazy new designs could be created and modeled due to calculus and computer designing.
2) Which year in the 1990s was a watershed?
1998 was the year of the watershed for blobjects.
3) What three other products were introduced this year that were good examples of blobjects?
Three products introduced in this time period were the the five flavor Apple iMacs, Volkswagon Beetle, and the Nike Triax Watch.
4) On page 29 of "Shaping Things" Bruce Sterling describes when a 'gizmo' becomes a 'spime'. Copy the sentence here.
“When the entire industrial process is made explicit, when the metrics count for more than the object they measure, then gizmo become spimes.”
5) On page 45 of "Shaping Things" Bruce Sterling describes a defining characteristic of a Synchronic Society. Quote him here.
“A SYNCHRONIC SOCIETY synchronizes multiple histories. In a SYNCHRONIC SOCIETY every object is worthy of human or machine consideration generates a small history. These histories are not dusty archives locked away on ink and paper. They are informational resources, manipulable in real time. A SYNCHRONIC SOCEITY generates trillion of catalogable, searchable, trackable trajectories: patterns of design, manufacturing, distribution, and recycling that are maintained in fine-grained detail.”- Bruce Sterling
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