Does it sounds familiar? Blogject is actually a combination of two words which is blog and object. Blog is where people can write their electronic diaries, comments and share thoughts. As for blogject, same concepts apply but one thing different is that instead of human blogging, it is the "object" that is blogging.
This term is created by Julian Beecker earlier in his discussion.
Blogjects in the near-future will participate in the whole meaning- making apparatus that is now the social web, and that is be Julian Bleecker comming the "Internet of Things". The most peculiar characteristic of Blogjects is that they participate in the exchange of ideas. Blogjects don't just publish, they circulate conversation
Like what it meant in the paragraph above, instead of playing the passive role, blogjects are the active one. It is so much like a human but the only different is that they are non-living things. For example, the Pigeon that Blogs. It is a project by Beatriz da Costa in order to study the quality of air in certain areas. The Pigeon that Blogs is made up of a flock of pigoens that equipped with a sensor to allow them to communicate with the Internet wirelessly. Besides, they also have a GPS (Global Positioning System) on them which enable the researchers to track the exact location of them. More importantly, an environmental sensor so as they fly, it'll record the toxin and the pollutants in the air.
There are three characteristic of the blogject which is
- it can be track or trace the places they went and the exact location of them now.
- it have self-contained of all the things/events they went through and embedded within themselves.
- it is assertively passive where they act and participate in conversations.
One of the example found online is this,
Isn't this cool? You're literally communicating with your home. It might not be something we'll get instantly but I'm sure with the advanced technology, it will definitely come true.
So is blogject benefiting us? I would not say yes nor no to this question because there are still flaws in it. Like, what if false communication occurred? Everyone's interpretation to everything is different. How to ensure communication breakdown won't happen? Just like my previous post, now that human can communicate not only with the smartphone/Google but also the house, the car, the computer and et cetera, will be world still remain the same as how it used to be?
Think yourself! =)
I don't think blogjects is beneficial to us, because it is not as vivid as human. Likewise, I agree you mentioned that "what if false communication occured?" We are the human who can overcome it but does the "thing" can overcome it? Nobody knows. Personally, I think the "things" that replace the blogger might not that flexible. Human could think, take steps to ensure there should not be any communication breakdown but as for blogjects. I can't say it really cannot, but it is really unpredictable.
ReplyDeleteHello Jia Xin! It's alarming to think that not only our smartphones can communicate but the object in our house can too! Blogjects certainly ease of a lot of our burden, and is a unique innovation that will be open to all with advanced technology as you've mentioned in the future.
ReplyDeleteOther than the Pigeon that Blogs example, there's actually a lot Blogjects that exists today! One of them as I recalled, it a farmer putting a sensor on his cattles' ears. This device is actually a Blogject which detects each cattle in terms of their temperature, their weight etc.
Pigeon that Blogs offer us information about the air around us. Whereas, the cattle example shows Blogjects being an assistance in business. Either way, we can already see the potential of Blogjects helping humanity out.
However, there's a threat that possess in the future. We all know that when something becomes popular, everyone would start to imitate. And some do so poorly. When that happens, I fear irrelevant Blogjects that will contribute to human beings being lazy will surface. We already can see how Internet has some detrimental effects and I have a feeling, Blogjects will eventually venture into this bad phase.
But of course we can never expect anything to be so prim and proper without flaws so I guess what we can do now is to understand the concept of Blogjects, continue to create more useful and beneficial Blogjects and be aware of the potholes that might appear so we can patch things up before a heavier damage. Thanks Jia Xin for this post! The video is superb, it basically highlights the whole concept of Blogjects in the most creative way!
Hey Jia Xin
ReplyDeleteI have to say that blogject may seem like the next big thing for the future generation but this sort of technology could be abused. Although the thoughts of having tags that can measure temperature and weight and even heart rate could actually benefit us a lot, think about it if we have microchip planted into our bodies to help monitor our bodies so that chip can detect illness as early as possible so that it can alert its host to see a doctor, this could save a lot of lives.
However, like what you said what if false communication were to occur like say the microchip was faulty and gave wrong diagnostic to the doctor? Technology has the tendency to fail at times we least expect them.
I like the video your show, it is so cute and technology. The person is communicating with the objects and the objects can fulfill all the needs that offer by the people. The idea shown in the video is cute and creative, but they are good and bad on this kind of advance technology. People will become lacking from doing the housework as the object will help to solve it. People will getting more lazy and lazier.
ReplyDeleteIt has its good side and its bad sides. The bad side of it is that it invading our privacy. It trace our location, record what we had done and even share it with other people like internet bloggers and so on. Its feel like there is a person keep following you and jot down all the things that u had done. Its like a spy or somethings. But in the other way, its just like u mention above, its like a diary of us the record down what we had done and it will be fun when we look back what we had done. Its part of our memory. It helps us to remember our memory or record it down because our brain do not have the ability to remember all the things that happen everyday.
ReplyDeleteBlogjects! The new term in this century or should I said there already appeared for a long time just we didn't realized that? Anyways, I think it's very convenience for the human in their daily life because it helps a lot by recording down what you done, where is the location of the car keys, helps you to clean the room. It really sound amazing, isn't? But what's come to my mind is that what happen if we are too rely on this blogjects? Will the human lost their ability to even take care themselves? Also the privacy, will the blogjects records down and might be pass through the connection which is a possibility of the risk. But when comes to technology, we as a human must be wisely but not to be controlled by the technology.
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