Chris Lam – Speculative Futures

Chris’ speculative futures are great!  The concept of the ocular implant is both terrifying and plausible – thinking of the ideas set forth in our readings on speculative futures, I do see a pathway to that.  I am resistant to the concept of implanted technology, so prefer to go with wearable tech (like glasses), but the implants probably make more sense and would be more convenient in many ways.

The second speculative was the one that really captured my interest.

I have been thinking about graphic design recently, due to some things that we are working on at my workplace, and the field is fascinating to me.  How do you distill a whole group of ideas into one image or picture?  Chris has done an excellent job of this, the image that he has created, with the few words on the surface, really do capture the essence of a story.  I love that it provides enough information that we can feel some of the emotion of the story it is conveying.  When I think of the concepts, it feels similar to the emoji activity, in that we are translating and interpreting with this, but there is a much richer palate used to paint the picture, and Chris was not just limited to a limited library of emojis to tell the story.  I think this is a good example of a ‘text’ that is not a full written story.