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Thelma Boateng, Fine Arts 3rd year
DIGITAL CRAFT
How did contemporary technology influenced our body, mind, behavior and our network?
#20 crazy things people do to get wi-fi connection:
In their quest to get Wi-Fi Internet connectivity, people have done some pretty desperate things over the years. I've selected a few:
- 4. "Driven to the local coffee shop and purchased a muffin to use their wireless."
- 7. "I have plugged my laptop into a hospital Ethernet line because the wireless was down."
- 9. "Plugged into the back of a cash register."
- 11. "Turned someone's TV antenna into a wireless internet antenna."
- 12. "Logged into hotel conference rooms to get the connection for free."
- 14. "Plugged into electricity from the city of Seattle that was on a pole on the sidewalk, but only for a few minutes."
- 15. "Held my laptop out a window to get the Wi-Fi next door so I could send an important email."
- 16. "Sat outside an airport for 4 hours so I could use the free wireless across the street."
- 18. "Moved throughout my home because of connection problems, I found myself sitting in a ducky chair in my toddler's room because that is where I got the best connection."
Check the rest out here: [1]
#Tegenlicht documentary: ‘’Digitaal geheugenverlies’’ (Digital amnesia)
Our lives are continuously captured for ‘’later’’.. but is it? Digital files are vulnerable. We think that internet is a library, but it isn’t. It’s worrying that libraries are slowly whittled. (what happens with all those books?) While internet is also not permanent… so much of the web is already gone; they’re changing and coming all the time.
