MDEF: Tech Beyond the Myth - Week 1Class notes (2022)

--- tags: mdef year: 2022 --- MDEF: Tech Beyond the Myth - Week 1 Class notes (2022) ================================== **Technology beyond the myth: Forensics of the obsolescence and Our world in data** 9-12 NOV 2021 MDEF <iframe src="https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/e/2PACX-1vQR0jHfmYjJf-yF-b6300PCrYN0QLYOqAIqGD31eZjEGwKaLHon_VhTQP30Veatc0ioFTLRN6TIMMTT/embed?start=false&loop=false&delayms=3000" frameborder="0" width="100%" height="600px" allowfullscreen="true" mozallowfullscreen="true" webkitallowfullscreen="true"></iframe> [Slides Source](https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1wo9NGrwnGzOoEcGbobuVXV_MgIbc5r4TI093xial3eY/edit?usp=sharing) ## Forensics of the obsolescence #### Other Slides [Fab Lab Barcelona - Sense Making](https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1BiB9RlbJf9CSEGIk7dIyA2XwKLx-lKGVBj3Cg4_742Y/edit#slide=id.gac13ea56d5_0_0) ### Forensic Template https://hackmd.io/IFpmoizIRRygTzq2N4Cxwg?both ### Results: Forensic Reports :::warning :exclamation: _Please, paste the links to your Forensic Reports below. Remember, the template is [here](https://hackmd.io/IFpmoizIRRygTzq2N4Cxwg?both)._ ::: 1. [iRobot Roomba](https://hackmd.io/INk2gThpSkObQQ_E62gxow?view) 3. [Princess Induction Cooker](https://hackmd.io/m-yjJgxyR6We6cR5qtdgzA?view) 4. [iMac Destructor](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ZNUcvKs4-x-L-aVGBumVndaLHpxK71t9pLupsMx1hZ0/edit?usp=sharing) 5. [APPLE Powerbook](https://hackmd.io/R0RFkjt7RaeO5gX_PEmZdQ?both) 6. [Hitachi TV](https://hackmd.io/k6mQVyogRHG1THKUaOLR9g?view) ## A world in data ### Class tools https://hackmd.io/i46Hmb2vTcKI6_DIoaxDvQ ### Open Data Repository https://github.com/fablabbcn/mdef-a-world-in-data ### Sense Making Journal Template https://hackmd.io/HeL0zMM4QIuEW9pXt4QAaQ ### Results: Sense Making Journals :::warning :exclamation: _Please, paste the links to your Sense Making Journal below. Remember, the template is [here](https://hackmd.io/HeL0zMM4QIuEW9pXt4QAaQ?both)._ ::: 1. [Lonely young people](https://hackmd.io/@YILZtPbvS8ysod9oGVZhwg/rkuj0ajPY) 2. [Eating space at IAAC](https://hackmd.io/@rubendehaan/HkiYyRjDF) 3. [Urban Gardeners](https://hackmd.io/T-GuyioJTf2Mz_rITDlOBQ) 4. [Food Origins](https://hackmd.io/YdIVHkalQhu7uryzWZcYFw?both) 5. [Gender Expression](https://hackmd.io/EtXk_eLfTmeD98oJX0lKrQ) ## References ### Random Readings :::warning Crowdsourced during the class... ::: **Inspiration** https://es.ifixit.com/ https://www.lowtechmagazine.com/ https://hackaday.com/ https://medium.com/think-do-tank/e-waste-the-fastest-growing-waste-stream-in-the-eu-8c52fd7b5530 https://www.startribune.com/for-tech-weary-midwest-farmers-40-year-old-tractors-now-a-hot-commodity/566737082/ https://www.bunniestudios.com/blog/?p=3040 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hp6F_ApUq-c http://joi.ito.com/weblog/2014/09/01/shenzhen-trip-r.html https://jamesprovost.com/portfolio/makers-bill-of-rights https://hackmd.io/vFWCoPjtSz2LkzM6rFBu4g?both= https://fcc.report/ https://archive.org/details/TheHackerEthicAndTheSpiritOfTheInformationAge https://www.ladyada.net/library/openhardware/license.html https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tariff_engineering https://www.strava.com/heatmap#7.00/-120.90000/38.36000/hot/all https://www.saluscoop.org/ https://pdf1.alldatasheet.com/datasheet-pdf/view/115167/STMICROELECTRONICS/STR736FV1T7.html **Monopoly of big tech** https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/11/google-sends-anti-regulation-propaganda-to-small-businesses-using-google-maps/ (from today!) http://teleread.com/microsoft-to-shut-down-zune-music-pass-service/index.html https://patents.google.com/ **Privacy** https://www.vice.com/en/article/jg84yy/data-brokers-netflow-data-team-cymru https://www.vice.com/en/article/qj454d/private-intelligence-location-data-xmode-hyas https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/oct/04/shoshana-zuboff-surveillance-capitalism-assault-human-automomy-digital-privacy **Science and questioning** https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-00857-9 https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30894741/ ### Courses https://ethics.fast.ai/syllabus/ ### Books Below is an eclectic list of books that range from technology criticism, design principles towards hand on guides on building hardware and software. We choose them because we like them. [![](https://i.imgur.com/wptLD8P.jpg)](https://www.goodreads.com/review/list/70336932-pral2a?utf8=%E2%9C%93&utf8=%E2%9C%93&shelf=mdef-the-way-things-work&view=covers&title=pral2a&sort=rating&order=d&per_page=100) **Check the list in [Good Reads](https://www.goodreads.com/review/list/70336932-pral2a?utf8=%E2%9C%93&utf8=%E2%9C%93&shelf=mdef-the-way-things-work&view=covers&title=pral2a&sort=rating&order=d&per_page=100)** _**They are ordered from shorter to longer so you can start with a short reading essay in your busy schedule**_ _Some of the books can be found online for free, use google and archive.org_ **The Epic Struggle of the Internet of Things**, _Sterling, Bruce_. Strelka Press, 2014 (ISBN [9785906264305](https://www.goodreads.com/search?q=9785906264305)) 30 pages. **The Politics of Design: A (Not So) Global Design Manual for Visual Communication**, _Pater, Ruben_. BIS Publishers, 2016 (ISBN [9789063694227](https://www.goodreads.com/search?q=9789063694227)) 32 pages. **The Design of Scarcity**, _Goodbun, Jon_. Strelka Press, 2014 (ISBN [](https://www.goodreads.com/search?q=)) 44 pages. **Thing Explainer: Complicated Stuff in Simple Words**, _Munroe, Randall_. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2015 (ISBN [9780544668256](https://www.goodreads.com/search?q=9780544668256)) 64 pages. **The Politics of Bitcoin: Software as Right-Wing Extremism**, _Golumbia, David_. Univ Of Minnesota Press, 2016 (ISBN [9781517901806](https://www.goodreads.com/search?q=9781517901806)) 100 pages. **Society of the Spectacle**, _Debord, Guy_. Rebel Press, 1967 (ISBN [9780946061129](https://www.goodreads.com/search?q=9780946061129)) 119 pages. **Introduction to Networking: How the Internet Works**, _Severance, Charles_. Charles Severance, 2015 (ISBN [](https://www.goodreads.com/search?q=)) 122 pages. **Getting Started with Arduino**, _Banzi, Massimo_. Maker Media, Inc, 2008 (ISBN [9780596155513](https://www.goodreads.com/search?q=9780596155513)) 128 pages. **Fifty Dangerous Things (You Should Let Your Children Do)**, _Tulley, Gever_. Tinkering Unlimited, 2009 (ISBN [9780984296101](https://www.goodreads.com/search?q=9780984296101)) 130 pages. **Shaping Things**, _Sterling, Bruce_. Mit Press, 2005 (ISBN [9780262693264](https://www.goodreads.com/search?q=9780262693264)) 149 pages. **Four Futures: Life After Capitalism**, _Frase, Peter_. Verso, 2015 (ISBN [9781781688137](https://www.goodreads.com/search?q=9781781688137)) 150 pages. **Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth**, _Fuller, R. Buckminster_. Lars Muller Publishers, 1969 (ISBN [9783037781265](https://www.goodreads.com/search?q=9783037781265)) 151 pages. **Vehicles: Experiments in Synthetic Psychology**, _Braitenberg, Valentino_. Bradford Book, 1984 (ISBN [9780262521123](https://www.goodreads.com/search?q=9780262521123)) 168 pages. **Ep, Vol. 2: Design Fiction**, _Gruijthuijsen, Krist_. Sternberg Press, 2019 (ISBN [9783956790485](https://www.goodreads.com/search?q=9783956790485)) 170 pages. **Platform Capitalism**, _Srnicek, Nick_. Polity, 2016 (ISBN [](https://www.goodreads.com/search?q=)) 171 pages. **Free Software, Free Society: Selected Essays**, _Stallman, Richard M._. Julian Yap, 2002 (ISBN [9781882114986](https://www.goodreads.com/search?q=9781882114986)) 186 pages. **Tomas Saraceno: Flying Plaza**, _Saraceno, Tomás_. Spector Books, 2018 (ISBN [9783959050296](https://www.goodreads.com/search?q=9783959050296)) 208 pages. **Troubleshooting Analog Circuits**, _Pease, Robert A._. Newnes, 1991 (ISBN [9780750694995](https://www.goodreads.com/search?q=9780750694995)) 217 pages. **Humankind: Solidarity with Non-Human People**, _Morton, Timothy_. Verso, 2017 (ISBN [9781786631329](https://www.goodreads.com/search?q=9781786631329)) 224 pages. **Making It: Manufacturing Techniques for Product Design**, _Lefteri, Chris_. Laurence King, 2007 (ISBN [9781856695060](https://www.goodreads.com/search?q=9781856695060)) 224 pages. **The Message Is Murder: Substrates of Computational Capital**, _Beller, Jonathan_. Pluto Press, 2017 (ISBN [9780745337302](https://www.goodreads.com/search?q=9780745337302)) 224 pages. **Think Like a Programmer: An Introduction to Creative Problem Solving**, _Spraul, V. Anton_. No Starch Press, 2012 (ISBN [9781593274245](https://www.goodreads.com/search?q=9781593274245)) 233 pages. **Future Histories: What Ada Lovelace, Tom Paine, and the Paris Commune Can Teach Us About Digital Technology**, _O'Shea, Lizzie_. Verso, 2019 (ISBN [](https://www.goodreads.com/search?q=)) 240 pages. **The Design of Everyday Things**, _Norman, Donald A._. Basic Books, 1988 (ISBN [9780465067107](https://www.goodreads.com/search?q=9780465067107)) 240 pages. **Otl Aicher**, _Rathgeb, Markus_. Phaidon Press, 2007 (ISBN [9780714869384](https://www.goodreads.com/search?q=9780714869384)) 240 pages. **Inventing the Future: Postcapitalism and a World Without Work**, _Srnicek, Nick_. Verso, 2015 (ISBN [9781784780968](https://www.goodreads.com/search?q=9781784780968)) 245 pages. **Arduino Development Cookbook**, _Amariei, Cornel_. Packt Publishing, 2015 (ISBN [](https://www.goodreads.com/search?q=)) 246 pages. **Wiring the IoT: Connecting Hardware with Raspberry Pi, Node-Red, and MQTT**, _Rogers, Lucy_. O'Reilly Media, 2017 (ISBN [9781491953334](https://www.goodreads.com/search?q=9781491953334)) 250 pages. **Technology as Magic: The Triumph of the Irrational**, _Stivers, Richard_. Bloomsbury Academic, 1999 (ISBN [9780826413673](https://www.goodreads.com/search?q=9780826413673)) 256 pages. **Wasting Time on the Internet**, _Goldsmith, Kenneth_. Harper Perennial, 2016 (ISBN [9780062416476](https://www.goodreads.com/search?q=9780062416476)) 256 pages. **The Hacker Ethic: and the Spirit of the Information Age**, _Himanen, Pekka_. Random House, 1999 (ISBN [9780375505669](https://www.goodreads.com/search?q=9780375505669)) 256 pages. **The Humane Interface: New Directions for Designing Interactive Systems**, _Raskin, Jef_. Addison-Wesley Professional, 2000 (ISBN [9780201379372](https://www.goodreads.com/search?q=9780201379372)) 256 pages. **Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy**, _O'Neil, Cathy_. Crown, 2016 (ISBN [9780553418811](https://www.goodreads.com/search?q=9780553418811)) 259 pages. **The Utopia of Rules: On Technology, Stupidity, and the Secret Joys of Bureaucracy**, _Graeber, David_. Melville House, 2013 (ISBN [9781612193748](https://www.goodreads.com/search?q=9781612193748)) 261 pages. **Building Blockchain Projects: Building decentralized Blockchain applications with Ethereum and Solidity**, _Prusty, Narayan_. Packt Publishing, 2017 (ISBN [](https://www.goodreads.com/search?q=)) 268 pages. **Unruly Places: Lost Spaces, Secret Cities, and Other Inscrutable Geographies**, _Bonnett, Alastair_. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2014 (ISBN [9780544101579](https://www.goodreads.com/search?q=9780544101579)) 270 pages. **FAB: The Coming Revolution on Your Desktop–from Personal Computers to Personal Fabrication**, _Gershenfeld, Neil_. Basic Books (AZ), 2005 (ISBN [9780465027453](https://www.goodreads.com/search?q=9780465027453)) 278 pages. **The Grid: Electrical Infrastructure for a New Era**, _Bakke, Gretchen_. Bloomsbury USA, 2016 (ISBN [9781608196104](https://www.goodreads.com/search?q=9781608196104)) 288 pages. **Whole Earth Field Guide**, _Maniaque-Benton, Caroline_. Mit Press, 2016 (ISBN [9780262529280](https://www.goodreads.com/search?q=9780262529280)) 288 pages. **How We Got to Now: Six Innovations That Made the Modern World**, _Johnson, Steven_. Riverhead Books, 2014 (ISBN [9781594632969](https://www.goodreads.com/search?q=9781594632969)) 293 pages. **La silicolonisation du monde: l'irrésistible expansion du libéralisme numérique**, _Sadin, Éric_. L'Échappée, 2016 (ISBN [9782373090161](https://www.goodreads.com/search?q=9782373090161)) 296 pages. **Starting Electronics**, _Brindley, Keith_. Newnes, 1994 (ISBN [9780080969923](https://www.goodreads.com/search?q=9780080969923)) 296 pages. **Present Shock: When Everything Happens Now**, _Rushkoff, Douglas_. Current, 2013 (ISBN [9781591844761](https://www.goodreads.com/search?q=9781591844761)) 296 pages. **New Dark Age: Technology and the End of the Future**, _Bridle, James_. Verso, 2018 (ISBN [](https://www.goodreads.com/search?q=)) 304 pages. **Hacking Electronics: An Illustrated DIY Guide for Makers and Hobbyists: An Illustrated DIY Guide for Makers and Hobbyists**, _Monk, Simon_. McGraw-Hill/Tab Electronics, 2012 (ISBN [9780071802369](https://www.goodreads.com/search?q=9780071802369)) 304 pages. **Designing Reality: How to Survive and Thrive in the Third Digital Revolution**, _Gershenfeld, Neil_. Basic Books, 2017 (ISBN [9780465093472](https://www.goodreads.com/search?q=9780465093472)) 304 pages. **Catching Fire: How Cooking Made Us Human**, _Wrangham, Richard W._. Basic Books, 2009 (ISBN [9780465013623](https://www.goodreads.com/search?q=9780465013623)) 309 pages. **How to Diagnose and Fix Everything Electronic**, _Geier, Michael Jay_. McGraw-Hill/Tab Electronics, 2010 (ISBN [9780071744225](https://www.goodreads.com/search?q=9780071744225)) 316 pages. **Every Tool's a Hammer: Life Is What You Make It**, _Savage, Adam_. Atria Books, 2019 (ISBN [9781982113490](https://www.goodreads.com/search?q=9781982113490)) 320 pages. **The Shock of the Anthropocene: The Earth, History and Us**, _Bonneuil, Christophe_. Verso, 2013 (ISBN [9781784780814](https://www.goodreads.com/search?q=9781784780814)) 320 pages. **Biomimicry: Innovation Inspired by Nature**, _Benyus, Janine M._. William Morrow Paperbacks, 1997 (ISBN [9780060533229](https://www.goodreads.com/search?q=9780060533229)) 320 pages. **Mario Bellini**, _Morteo, Enrico_. Phaidon Press, 2015 (ISBN [9780714869452](https://www.goodreads.com/search?q=9780714869452)) 320 pages. **Cybernetic Revolutionaries: Technology and Politics in Allende's Chile**, _Medina, Eden_. MIT Press (MA), 2011 (ISBN [9780262016490](https://www.goodreads.com/search?q=9780262016490)) 326 pages. **The Mushroom at the End of the World: On the Possibility of Life in Capitalist Ruins**, _Tsing, Anna Lowenhaupt_. Princeton University Press, 2015 (ISBN [9780691162751](https://www.goodreads.com/search?q=9780691162751)) 331 pages. **Capitalism in the Web of Life: Ecology and the Accumulation of Capital**, _Moore, Jason W._. Verso, 2015 (ISBN [9781781689028](https://www.goodreads.com/search?q=9781781689028)) 336 pages. **From Counterculture to Cyberculture: Stewart Brand, the Whole Earth Network, and the Rise of Digital Utopianism**, _Turner, Fred_. , 2006 (ISBN [9780226817439](https://www.goodreads.com/search?q=9780226817439)) 339 pages. **Radical Technologies: The Design of Everyday Life**, _Greenfield, Adam_. Verso, 2017 (ISBN [9781786634498](https://www.goodreads.com/search?q=9781786634498)) 340 pages. **Making Things Move: DIY Mechanisms for Inventors, Hobbyists, and Artists**, _Roberts, Dustyn_. McGraw-Hill Education Tab, 2010 (ISBN [9780071741675](https://www.goodreads.com/search?q=9780071741675)) 350 pages. **Beautiful Data: A History of Vision and Reason since 1945**, _Halpern, Orit_. Duke University Press, 2014 (ISBN [9780822357445](https://www.goodreads.com/search?q=9780822357445)) 352 pages. **SUNBURST and LUMINARY - An Apollo Memoir**, _Eyles, Don_. Fort Point Press, Bostom, 2018 (ISBN [9780986385902](https://www.goodreads.com/search?q=9780986385902)) 357 pages. **Handmade Electronic Music: The Art of Hardware Hacking**, _Collins, Nicolas_. Routledge, 2006 (ISBN [9780415998734](https://www.goodreads.com/search?q=9780415998734)) 360 pages. **Fritz Kahn**, _Debschitz, Uta Von_. Taschen, 2009 (ISBN [9783836548403](https://www.goodreads.com/search?q=9783836548403)) 360 pages. **Free Culture: The Nature and Future of Creativity**, _Lessig, Lawrence_. Penguin Books, 2004 (ISBN [9780143034650](https://www.goodreads.com/search?q=9780143034650)) 368 pages. **Technology Choice: A Critique of the Appropriate Technology Movement**, _Willoughby, Kelvin_. Intermediate Technology Publications, 1990 (ISBN [9781853390579](https://www.goodreads.com/search?q=9781853390579)) 368 pages. **Make It So: Interaction Design Lessons From Science Fiction**, _Shedroff, Nathan_. Rosenfeld Media, 2012 (ISBN [9781933820989](https://www.goodreads.com/search?q=9781933820989)) 368 pages. **Building Open Source Hardware: DIY Manufacturing for Hackers and Makers**, _Gibb, Alicia_. Addison-Wesley Professional, 2014 (ISBN [9780133373905](https://www.goodreads.com/search?q=9780133373905)) 368 pages. **Quantum Computing Since Democritus**, _Aaronson, Scott_. Cambridge University Press, 2013 (ISBN [9780521199568](https://www.goodreads.com/search?q=9780521199568)) 370 pages. **The Master Switch: The Rise and Fall of Information Empires**, _Wu, Tim_. Knopf, 2010 (ISBN [9780307269935](https://www.goodreads.com/search?q=9780307269935)) 384 pages. **Robot in the Garden: Telerobotics and Telepistemology in the Age of the Internet**, _Goldberg, Ken_. Mit Press, 2000 (ISBN [9780262571548](https://www.goodreads.com/search?q=9780262571548)) 392 pages. **Dieter Rams: As Little Design as Possible**, _Lovell, Sophie_. Phaidon, 2010 (ISBN [](https://www.goodreads.com/search?q=)) 398 pages. **Raspberry Pi Cookbook**, _Monk, Simon_. O'Reilly Media, 2013 (ISBN [9781449365226](https://www.goodreads.com/search?q=9781449365226)) 414 pages. **To Save Everything, Click Here: The Folly of Technological Solutionism**, _Morozov, Evgeny_. PublicAffairs, 2013 (ISBN [9781610391382](https://www.goodreads.com/search?q=9781610391382)) 415 pages. **How the Internet Works (How It Works)**, _Gralla, Preston_. Que, 1991 (ISBN [9780789736260](https://www.goodreads.com/search?q=9780789736260)) 416 pages. **We-Think: Mass Innovation, Not Mass Production**, _Leadbeater, Charles W._. Profile Books(GB), 2009 (ISBN [9781847653895](https://www.goodreads.com/search?q=9781847653895)) 423 pages. **The Idea Factory: Bell Labs and the Great Age of American Innovation**, _Gertner, Jon_. Penguin Press, 2012 (ISBN [9781594203282](https://www.goodreads.com/search?q=9781594203282)) 432 pages. **Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism**, _Jameson, Fredric_. Duke Univ Press, 1991 (ISBN [9780822310907](https://www.goodreads.com/search?q=9780822310907)) 438 pages. **Adventures in the Anthropocene: A Journey to the Heart of the Planet we Made**, _Vince, Gaia_. Vintage, 2014 (ISBN [9780099572497](https://www.goodreads.com/search?q=9780099572497)) 448 pages. **Extraordinary Origins of Everyday Things**, _Panati, Charles_. William Morrow Paperbacks, 1987 (ISBN [9780060964191](https://www.goodreads.com/search?q=9780060964191)) 463 pages. **Fossil Capital: The Rise of Steam Power and the Roots of Global Warming**, _Malm, Andreas_. Verso, 2015 (ISBN [9781784781293](https://www.goodreads.com/search?q=9781784781293)) 496 pages. **Designing for Emerging Technologies: UX for Genomics, Robotics, and the Internet of Things**, _Follett, Jonathan_. O'Reilly Media, 2014 (ISBN [](https://www.goodreads.com/search?q=)) 504 pages. **The Technological Society**, _Ellul, Jacques_. Vintage, 1954 (ISBN [9780394703909](https://www.goodreads.com/search?q=9780394703909)) 512 pages. **The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution**, _Isaacson, Walter_. Simon and Schuster, 2014 (ISBN [9781476708690](https://www.goodreads.com/search?q=9781476708690)) 542 pages. **User Centered System Design: New Perspectives on Human-Computer Interaction**, _Norman, Donald A._. CRC Press, 1986 (ISBN [9780898598728](https://www.goodreads.com/search?q=9780898598728)) 544 pages. **Real World Instrumentation with Python: Automated Data Acquisition and Control Systems**, _Hughes, John M._. O'Reilly Media, 2010 (ISBN [9781449396633](https://www.goodreads.com/search?q=9781449396633)) 622 pages. **Arduino Cookbook**, _Margolis, Michael_. O'Reilly Media, 2010 (ISBN [9780596802479](https://www.goodreads.com/search?q=9780596802479)) 662 pages. **Designing Interactions [With CDROM]**, _Moggridge, Bill_. MIT Press (MA), 2006 (ISBN [9780262134743](https://www.goodreads.com/search?q=9780262134743)) 766 pages. **Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst**, _Sapolsky, Robert M._. Penguin Press, 2017 (ISBN [9781594205071](https://www.goodreads.com/search?q=9781594205071)) 790 pages. **Practical Electronics for Inventors**, _Scherz, Paul_. McGraw-Hill Companies, 1998 (ISBN [9780071452816](https://www.goodreads.com/search?q=9780071452816)) 952 pages. **The Art of Electronics**, _Horowitz, Paul_. Cambridge University Press, 1980 (ISBN [9780521370950](https://www.goodreads.com/search?q=9780521370950)) 1152 pages.