Intro to theme: The shock of the old & envisioning the future

Reading seminar

Preparations: read Alan Kay and Adele Goldberg, Personal Dynamic Media (1977):
http://www.newmediareader.com/book_samples/nmr-26-kay.pdf 

(please shout if you already read this and like another text to read instead!)

Read the text and think out three issues or questions based on the text that you would like to discuss with your peers. It could concern aspects or terminology that you do not understand, how it misses important aspects of current design problems, or anything else. This is one of the classic texts on interaction design, that has been influential to our field in many ways. But what can you, as an interaction designer in year 2013 possibly learn from a text published in 1977?  

Task of the week (individually or in pairs):

• What will interactive technology be like in 36 years from now (i.e. in year 2049)?
• Is it different or similar to e.g. science fiction? (please refer to specific books or movies if you like!)
• How would you like to affect the development, as an interaction designer?
• Bring up hopes, wishes, fears and fantasies, but try and be as realistic as you can! 
• As an alternative - you could formulate it as a letter to yourself at a later stage of your career, about the state of the art now