The use of technology
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— Intro We are challenged to rethink what is the future of caring spatial environments and what it means to be human in a highly technologized environment. Technology is something to acknowledge while designing architectural contexts for the future. Technologies emerging throughout time, do formulate the way we live, act, stress and proceed. “We shape our tools and thereafter our tools shape us” as the Canadian philosopher; Marshall McLuhan, once said. When looking along examples of technology tools that played a role in forming our relations to spatial surroundings and realities, a long list goes: • The stone artifact was the first primitive extension of our body; a survival tool. • Then the fire came as one of the oldest milestones of development; a radical technology for nutritions1. • After that writing became a way to capture thoughts; power through information technology. • Later, money evolved as a technology to express regulated exchange; technology of value. • In modern times, the internet is a mass communication technology for hive mindset. “We persist a long time, and make big changes between generations. We use cognition to come up with new intelligence while we presist” Joanna Bryson, Is AI Changing us?, TEDxCERN, November 2018. Human, perception, cognition and technology are always in constant weave. So as designers that construct architectural contexts, the use of technology should not be missed in architectural fabrications of the future. Charles Fort, an American writer and paranormal researcher, stated that not each time we have
1 When Fire Met Food, The Brains Of Early Humans Grew Bigger : The Salt Because we had better food, our brains grew bigger than those of our primate cousins, scientists say. Early humans cooked, which makes meat and veggies more digestible and nutrients more available to the body. source: https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2012/10/24/163536159/when-fire-met-meat-the-brains-of-early-humans-grew-bigger?t=1630785178110
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