Apple Watch Observations. 123pp, v12.28.14, btc ---------------------------------------------------------------------- no copyright, redistribution & storage ok (see disclaimer) web-version: https://appleobservations.wordpress.com/ PDF-version: http://tinyurl.com/AWO-final-12-28-14 ^ ebook version pending, website/info for updates
Critique of the Apple Watch concept in a good-bad-&-ugly scenario, accounting for app mania & the "apps apps apps" mantra preceding creation of the App Watch, standing in for the watch of the future. Thus proprietary apps, OS & ecosystem approach as a conceptual and ideological limit, though also in a context of hidden politics, exploitation of technology and rapidly developing police state. In this way dual-use blackbox devices, antagonistic electronics operating with different value systems, human and antihuman, truth absent within computer data models, no structural basis for knowledge, the bit itself becomes the sign of truth, where $=bit (on=money, off=no-money) in terms of evaluating data, leading to slavery dynamics, censoring data by denying access via authoritarian control over culture, on behalf of tyrannical power politics of Big Daddy as state oppressor, not Big Brother. In this way, as an optimistic view, establishing new rights to data access via wearable technology, micro-data & -payments in surrounding pervasive wireless infrastructure, beyond the detached and aristocratic mindset of Silicon Valley utopianism, developing tools for humanity, to support & secure freedom. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ^ PDF file only temporarily available at this url location, other revised versions will be accessible via main website/info. I. theme: computer watch as data orrery... The formula of time+complications is translated into a screen with vanishing watchface screensaver, apps as complications, incredibly shallow, not investigating questions related to time. Analysis of this result leading to model and conceptualization: time + sensors + datalogging + networking = Apple Watch Next, cultural dimensions and first-person experience added as a substitute for time: (context = space-time & place) In this way, data could be mapped and tracked in proximity to timepiece wearers, the clockwork mechanism functioning at the level of ideas, syncing metaphysics with grounded pov. II. theme: data-access issues and ideas (IoT)... electric infrastructure > telecommunications > networking > data access There is a wall built of existing infrastructure that forbids access via middle-management, preventing access to maximally profit so that only the wealthy have mobile data services (atop voice), while this exploitative and oppressive approach is proclaimed to be the foundation of the Internet of Things, and yet private frameworks are the limit to this occurring. Thus establishing public data access, not subsidizing existing frameworks and instead maximizing economy and microscopic bandwidth & throughput via low-power Wi-Fi connections (ZigBee/other) in a model of distributed sensor networks, where wearables are part of this ubiquitous access and exchange, opening up and sustaining a new cultural realm of data relations beyond issues of private quarterly-profits and spreadsheet constraints. If the Apple Watch developed an extroverted relation with the existing Wi-Fi infrastructure it would be a paradigm-changing device in economic, social, government, and cultural terms. III. interested in establishing list to discuss & debate ideas... It is wondered if anyone would be interested in establishing an email discussion list related to general AWO themes as a beginning point for any such artifact/infrastructure/system issues, observations, analyses, as the general framework. A proposed list name, 'net.watch-list', is keyed from the text, simultaneously referencing a potential Wi-Fi based wristwatch with public access to pervasive data services, though also the reality of being watched in surveillance-based global society, as this also relates to watching the watchers, everyone an eye as observations empirically correlate, find ground or fail to unify as this increases isolation, alienation, silence, self-censoring. The main concern with an open discussion (whether public or private) would be institutional or legal support or backing that may limit outside subversion or interference in list operation. So that people can feel safe communicating in a free society, versus on the verge of persecution and collapse if attacked. My vote would be for a public list connected to a University, where a lot of people are discussing the same realm of ideas, not limited of course to AWO or authorial perspective, though involving dynamics mentioned, hypotheses, many viewpoints. correspondence: [email protected] {The Internet Emporium}: related project http://internetemporium.wordpress.com/ http://tinyurl.com/priam-kissing-the-app-watch http://tinyurl.com/app-watch-as-datalogger http://tinyurl.com/apple-watch-order http://tinyurl.com/internet-acropolis # distributed via <nettime>: no commercial use without permission # <nettime> is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: http://mx.kein.org/mailman/listinfo/nettime-l # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: [email protected]
