Thursday, March 8, 2012
Artifacts
So, I wasn't in class Monday and didn't know about bringing artifacts to class. So I'm just going to talk about the pictures and documents shown in class from the video. These were shown from the early 1920's (I think. I can't really remember honestly). It was about electricity being brought into a home where electricity wasn't popular and not many people had. This was important because the men in the family were trying to better their lives and make it easier to survive. I'm honestly not really sure what kind of argument can be made about this because I'm not really sure how to do that quite yet. But this was a big step in the 1920's for this particular family, especially since the parts that were needed weren't around and the father had to find other ways of creating these parts. It was somewhat interesting to listen to, but history really isn't my thing so I think I'm really going to have a hard time with this paper. I guess I'll just have to wait and see what I actually do my paper on.
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You could possibly do an argument on how people lived without electricity and how they lived with it. How did electricity affect people when it became popular and used? Kinda like the television or car. They started out big, chunky, and expensive but ended up growing exponentially after some time. I have no idea what kind of an argument I'm going to make either but I'm sure we will both figure it out :)
ReplyDeleteI think what mostly we're supposed to write about is whether or not whatever artifact we look at fits into Steven Johnson's mold of how ideas come about. I'm not exactly sure on this, but that's my understanding of it so far. In the case of the generator, you could look at it and see if it was something that was in the adjacent possible or not. You could also refer to the incubator made out of car parts as this is essentially what he did by making his generator. Not out of car parts, but the idea is the same.
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