Pages

Showing posts with label Future. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Future. Show all posts

Thursday, 21 January 2016

Sensors in Architecture

If there is an area that we need to understand, and develop an understanding in, it has to be Sensors. Buildings will come to depend on them, not just for basic performance, but security and structural strangth.

The video below looks at the way pin or access codes are used, and how we might switch to a lot of other snipits of information that the phone will collect that will let a door know if you have access to a room.

But the research might be well beyond this, sensors will monitor eveything, people, weather, and room use, doors opening, temp, calendars, building use as a whole.

no more tags, or card readers, my University is so dependant on them, but its so dumb, If i scan to go out, and suddenly remember a book on my desk, and do not actually go out, the door will not open for me, just because I have scanned to go out.

Placing sensors might simply be so simple as random in plasterboard, once the building software scans the sensor it will use that data, and here is the first problem I see, in the hacking that might be done via that sensor, but its a small problem in comparison to the ease and security the new sensor system might offer.





Saturday, 2 January 2016

Futurism and The Jetsons

It happens so often, your attend a lecture given by a futurist, and as part of it, they mention the Jetsons, most are not old enough to have watched the cartoon, but its gets rolled out as part os what we might see. So I thought its time, and the right place to look at the Jetsons, and examine the way, it played it role in Futurism.

First shown in 1962 it lasted until 1988, revolves around a family set in a Skypad Apartments in Orbit City, in a future with the trappings of science fantasy depictions of American life in the future, 2062 to be precise.

So first port of call might be an excellent article by Matt Novak in the Independant, an article on the Smithsonian site is also well worth reading. But is a much larger article, again from Matt Novak, that is the real overviw I think you should read. It takes in more than just the Jetson, looking at the golden age of Futurism. Although its a USA, American idealism, I recognise so many themes from on of my all time great comic The Eagle.

This subject is part of a much larger presentation I give, for more details and a chance to book me,