{"id":123,"date":"2020-04-10T17:37:43","date_gmt":"2020-04-11T00:37:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/?p=123"},"modified":"2020-05-17T10:41:14","modified_gmt":"2020-05-17T17:41:14","slug":"w02-mobile-technologies-i-want-to-see-someday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/2020\/04\/10\/w02-mobile-technologies-i-want-to-see-someday\/","title":{"rendered":"W02: Mobile Technologies I Want To See Someday&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Pursuant to the thought that so many mobile technologies today seem like magic (in the sense of Arthur C. Clarke\u2019s observation that any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic), what kind of magic would you like to conjure, or have conjured, that doesn\u2019t exist now?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Keep in mind that a technology doesn\u2019t necessarily have to be a physical object anymore, it can be a:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><strong>Capability:<\/strong>&nbsp;&nbsp;something that I can\u2019t do now in the real world that I would love to do;<\/li><li><strong>Affordance:<\/strong>&nbsp; an aspect or feature of the real world &amp; real world objects that doesn\u2019t exist now, but would be wonderful if it did.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But, given our deep affection for gadgets, it could also be a:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><strong>Device:<\/strong>&nbsp; some aspect of digital fashion, fetish or function that I simply couldn\u2019t live without\u2026<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And just for fun, describe your magical wish and predict how many years it might be until it might be realized.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">INSTRUCTIONS:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Read through a set of the existing responses below.&nbsp; Use the&nbsp;<strong>Thumbs Up<\/strong>&nbsp;tool to recommend&nbsp;any within your set that you believe are exceptionally valuable, or that you strongly agree with. Use the&nbsp;<strong>Thumbs Down<\/strong>&nbsp;tool&nbsp;<em>only<\/em>&nbsp;if, in your opinion, the response does not add value to the discussion.<\/li><li>If you have something new and valuable to add, use the&nbsp;<strong>Comment<\/strong>&nbsp;(\u201cLeave a Reply\u201d) field at the bottom of this post to contribute your original thoughts, or click on&nbsp;<strong>Reply<\/strong>&nbsp;to any existing Comment to contribute to that thread.<\/li><\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pursuant to the thought that so many mobile technologies today seem like magic (in the sense of Arthur C. Clarke\u2019s observation that any sufficiently advanced&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/2020\/04\/10\/w02-mobile-technologies-i-want-to-see-someday\/\">Read more<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">W02: Mobile Technologies I Want To See Someday&#8230;<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":125,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-123","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mobiletechnologies","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=123"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":835,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123\/revisions\/835"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/125"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}