Emerging technologies for learning (volume 1)

Collection of 5 articles on emerging technologies and trend

Big Data and the Digitalizing Society in China

This thesis investigates the development of big data and the smart city, and the relationship between humans, digital technologies, and cities in the context of China. Contributing to the emerging interest of human geography in how big data and other digital technologies reshape the urban space and everyday life, the thesis presents a distinct data story about a digitalizing society of China. In a big data era, accompanying the ubiquity of digital devices and technologies is the lack of consciousness of their socio-political consequences, which nonetheless constitute an important productive aspect of society. Engaging with the discussions in human geography and beyond about the relationships between digital technologies and Deleuzian ‘societies of control’, Maurizio Lazzarato’s work on the production of subjectivity and Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari’s conception of the machine and the organism, I argue for further understandings of the coexistence of control and discipline as distinct yet dependent modes of social control. I place specific emphasis upon the coexisting processes of dividualisation and individualisation in the operation of big data and other digital technologies. The thesis further illustrates this through the empirical analysis of the development of two smart urbanism projects, the City Brain and the Health Code, and of short video platforms in China, which for me represent two different aspects of everyday life influenced by big data that concern two different political relations, that is, biopolitics, as understood by Michel Foucault, and noopolitics (i.e., politics of the mind) as understood by Lazzarato. In order to de-fetishize big data, the thesis proceeds to discuss its technicity by characterising big data as mnemotechnics, a real-time technology, and a cosmotechnology respectively through the work of philosophers Bernard Stiegler and Yuk Hui. This intervention is also a proposal to rethink and reinvent the relations between humans and digital technology. Turning to Foucault’s ‘aesthetic of existence’, the thesis discusses the possibility of alternative ways of life in a big data era and drawing on Deleuze and Guattari’s work, proposes ‘becoming a digital nomad’ as a methodology to live with digital technologies, explore new possibilities and events, embrace unplanned encounters, and make new, temporary connections in the big data era

Analyzing the m-business landscape

The m-business landscape never stops to change and the impacts on the mobile market are constant as players reposition themselves on the market according to the new opportunities and threats brought by rapid technological developments. This paper provides a conceptual tool to better understand this player arena and its objective is threefold. The first one is to analyze the role of the key actors using ontology for defining and assessing their business models. The second objective is to analyze and visualize the interaction of actors with each other from a value system perspective. The final objective is to evaluate and represent the dependencies of the actors, their strategies and their convergence or divergence on different issues by using an approach borrowed from policy makin

Nomad's Community

The nomadic lifestyle is an exciting way to live. Exploring new places and meeting friendly people is a constant for a nomad. The pandemic has forced many people to work from home or start their own business. Many businesses are continuing to offer and encourage their people to work remotely because of the increased productivity and happiness of their employees. Now that COVID restrictions have lifted, everyone has been looking for an adventure- however this opportunity does not need a return ticket. Nomad?s Community provides an opportunity to live somewhere new as often as every month. Instead of signing an apartment lease and being tied to a city, Nomad?s Community provides an affordable lifestyle that allows travel and encourages adventure. Marketed towards digital nomads, remote workers, adventurers, travelers, and retirees, this new lifestyle allows people to experience new places and travel while being a part of a greater community

Naval Reserve support to information Operations Warfighting

Since the mid-1990s, the Fleet Information Warfare Center (FIWC) has led the Navy's Information Operations (IO) support to the Fleet. Within the FIWC manning structure, there are in total 36 officer and 84 enlisted Naval Reserve billets that are manned to approximately 75 percent and located in Norfolk and San Diego Naval Reserve Centers. These Naval Reserve Force personnel could provide support to FIWC far and above what they are now contributing specifically in the areas of Computer Network Operations, Psychological Operations, Military Deception and Civil Affairs. Historically personnel conducting IO were primarily reservists and civilians in uniform with regular military officers being by far the minority. The Naval Reserve Force has the personnel to provide skilled IO operators but the lack of an effective manning document and training plans is hindering their opportunity to enhance FIWC's capabilities in lull spectrum IO. This research investigates the skill requirements of personnel in IO to verify that the Naval Reserve Force has the talent base for IO support and the feasibility of their expanded use in IO.http://archive.org/details/navalreservesupp109451098

Transient mode of local exchange

Thesis (M. Arch.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 2012.This electronic version was submitted by the student author. The certified thesis is available in the Institute Archives and Special Collections.Cataloged from student-submitted PDF version of thesis.Includes bibliographical references (p. 76-77).This thesis presents the idea of a networked, transient mode of local food exchange and proposes a responsive infrastructure for integrating dynamic markets within the urban fabric. Focusing on market typologies as an area for critical intervention, I propose a design strategy whereby vendors are liberated from regulated market schedules and retail locations, and mobilized to operate as independent distributors informed by real-time supply and demand fluctuations. A research study is presented on early European traders, modern location theories, and contemporary supply chain logistics in order to contextualize the proposition within a historically evolving spatial relationship between producers and consumers. Using social, environmental, and economic lenses, I assess the benefits of a transient food market for South Tyrol, Italy, a region with a long tradition of agricultural production but where modern advances in technology provide significant advantages for exporting products rather than selling locally. The design research and proposal is presented as four distinct ideas that articulate the emerging role of the 1) producer, 2) products, 3) people, and 4) places within a digitally connected and socially networked environment. The convergence of these ideas establishes the critical design project, which is formalized and tested through a series of future projections that speculate on the spatial evolution of cities as people become increasingly connected and guided within an urban operating system. Topics discussed within this thesis include responsive "plug in" infrastructures, networked people and products, real-time data mining and analysis, and urban operating systems inspired by theories and applications of architectural cybernetics.by Jennifer Dunnam.M.Arch