From Cyberspace to the Internet of Things Flashcards
Cyberspace
The online world primarily encompasses the Internet and its associated networks.
It’s a complex, interconnected environment where individuals, software, and services interact, forming a global domain within the information environment.
Philip K. Dick
New Wave of Science fiction
The simulacra written by Philip
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep written by him
Cyberpunk
Start to use the internet, early days of the internet
News group, being used but not by much
Hyperlinks
Science fiction are thinking about the beginning of the internet and where it can go
Blade runner
Neuromancer
Akira (1988)
1980s - 90s
Characteristics of cyberpunk:
Dystopian science fiction
Noir
Globalization - world where there are no longer cultural boundaries
Postmodernism - pastiche, everything said (no reason to say anything new), all you can do it is to recombine
End of the natural
Corporations over state
Corporation replace countries
Corporations rule the world
Close to the metal (merging of human machine)
Everything becomes sub dermal with technology and the human
Neuromancer
1984 by William Gibson
Written on a typewriter
Coined the term cyberspace
Saw Blade Runner while writing it
Noir narrative-someone who is hired to solve a mystery
Leads to the Matrix
Blade Runner
1982 movie
They are not inside a computer, exist in a world
Exist in a globalized world, customs have come together
Noir detective story
About robots
Harrison Ford, main character might be a robot but he himself is not sure
His role is decide if they are real or not (a replicant), no test could only ask questions
Minority Report
2002 science fiction movie, Steven Speilberg
Noir, detective plot
Emerges cyberspace and the internet of things
Spielberg got futurist
RFID
Radio-frequency identification
a technology that uses radio waves to identify and track objects
wireless
Consists of tags, readers, and software, allowing for automation in inventory management, supply chain visibility, and various other applications.
Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA)
1998, Section 1201
Interoperability - your devices will only work on some devices
Puts artificial lock on copyright material; it encrypts it
Buy something on itunes you can only play it on places that are allowed (itunes)
Volkswagen controversy since they used their computer to be able to tamper with the amount of emissions they were emitting
Everything is licensed, we don’t really own anything
Metropolis
1927
Features the creation of a robot
Connects with the cyberspace fiction
Workers due to mechanical work
A leader that is trying to lead a uprising against the overlords
A robot is created to mislead the workers
Humans create life and we become godlike
Jean Baudrillard
Talked about the simulacra
We lost touch with everything that is real
Everything is a copy of a copy
Examples of simulacra are Disney World and Watergate
Disneyworld
Why we go to disney world it is a fantasy machine
So we have a fantasy world we can enter and we pretend to ourselves that the real world is reality
Watergate
Why did we have scandal
Since everything that is not a scandal, means no corruption
Postmodernism
everything said (no reason to say anything new)
all you can do it is to recombine
Internet of Things
Things are intelligent and have internet
Speakers at home - Amazon Alexa
Interoperability
your devices will only work on some devices
The ability of computer systems or software to exchange and make use of information
Due to licensing and encryptions
Part of DMCA section 1201
Karl Capek - RUR (1920)
The word robot is coined
Rossum’s Universal Robots
Eastern European forced labor is where the name came from
Issac Asimov
Science fiction writer and wrote about robots
Created the laws of robotics
3 laws of Robotics
- Cannot harm humans → cannot do anything to danger humanity
- Must obey human orders - unless it violated the first law
- Must protect itself - unless it leads to the injury/death of a human
