While the video has all the subtlety of an Old Navy TV ad from 2001 (obvious lure is the iPhone, not so much the university), the potentialities revealed are riveting - and a bit disturbing.
Some of my disturbance comes from concern that, if students don't have to look at a map and learn where a room or building is, perhaps they never learn to "figure out" those types of things. IE, perhaps we encourage devolution by accepting such heavy reliance on a replacement for brain-power and the mental calisthenics by which such power is developed and nourished. Am I just old and paranoid? I don't think so. Left unstimulated, neural pathways go dark. I think that we, as IxDs, have some obligation to maintain engagement while providing ease. I personally don't want to help bring about a world akin to "Idiocracy." . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=26579 ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help
