"Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works." -Steve Jobs
That nerd has got the right idea.
A major topic of discussion that is very pertinent to technology invading classrooms is Offloading. This was defined by myself (kind of) as making a human task able to be done by a tool that can do it more efficiently, making the potential for us to produce more.
As soon as this idea was circulating around the room I began to draw a picture.
The picture started with a large circle. This circle represented the time it takes for humans to create "work". As we evolve, we come up with better and faster ways for the "work" to be done. This led to an arrow in my picture pointing to a smaller circle labeled "Making the 'work' easier through technology". Then in my picture I have an arrow drawn to another large circle. Inside that circle I wrote "we now have more time to create new 'work'", which eventually points to a smaller circle with the same label as the first. And then my drawing connects as a cycle.
The way we evolve as a society is in itself a form of design. We must be warned because if we do not bide our time to create new "work", then we turn into a society fully dependent on the machines that we have created for our old "work".
What is funny is that I am reminded of a Mike Judge movie entitled, "Idiocracy" which is based in the future where people are so dependent on machines that they have stopped thinking for themselves. It is a really really dumb movie, but the more I learn in this class, the more I find myself referencing it.
Ok, hopefully I made a good point. Peace out.
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