Step 1 final; Step 2

206 Step 1 complete by end of class Friday; Step 2 over the holiday as homework.

Notes: some of blog entries are today's innovations. Push these ideas further into the future. 

Finish step 1

By Friday January 17 end of class (completing step 1):

All 10 fragments are posted with references and an image.

Criteria for good fragments

10 good sentences + image + reference

Can build ideas from it 

Believable or plausible in future

Clearly understood idea

An innovation + a future extension

Does not have to exist yet

Reference (url or book title or film title..)

Monday, January 20 is Martin Luther King Day, no class.

Step 2

Homework: From all the fragments on the blog, create three combinations of three images each to create a sequence that you describe in a caption. Use your own or others' fragments. The idea is not to tell a story yet, but instead focus on tying shots together.

By beginning of class on Wednesday, January 22, these should be posted to the blog: 

3 sequences, with 3 images each, and a sentence tying them together. 

Example of one sequence (assignment is to do 3 of these).

A person perceives she is in a busy urban area with lots of media spew, when actually she is standing in a corn field.

Mackenzie Dalglish: Assignment 1 Fragments

1. Synthetic skin that is sensitive to the human range of touch will allow for more effective prosthetics, and also could lead to more precise uses if applied to robotics.

Source: Star Wars

2. A variety of computer that could be controlled and interacted with via thought, where commands would be picked up by a small headpiece or earpiece receiver that could be put on an taken off easily when needed

Reference: Google Glass

3. Printing cells could lead to printing bodily organs using one's own cells as a base, eliminating chances of the body rejecting necessary implants

Source: http://www.livescience.com/26865-3d-printed-embryonic-stem-cells.html

4. Buildings are lined with aerogel to insulate them from outside temperatures, creating cost-effective temperature control and also making life viable in case of climate change

Source: Aerogel

5. Cloning and DNA alterations will prove lifesaving and eliminate nearly all birth defects, but will also lead to "designer people" whose parents choose their eye color, hair color, gender, etc.

Source: Rolling Girl

6. Virtual Reality will become so realistic and common that people will spend more time in idyllic digital worlds than the real world.

Source: The Physics of Christmas

7. Air controller devices will be able to create dense sections of air that can be projected upon, which could be used for advertisements and announcements.

Source: Macross Frontier

8. Lightweight building materials open up the ability to build floating cities to combat the growing population problem, which can be raised and lowered as needed to avoid or catch weather and avoid calamity.

9. A color and material-changing bodysuit makes changing clothing simple, with a wristband that when activated gives people time to picture what they want to wear, and choices are recorded, then created; when people are finished choosing they need only deactivate this thought-matching mode to lock in their choice.

Source: Macross Frontier

10. Lack of usuable energy sources and land on Earth will lead to exploration and mining in other parts of the solar system and deep space.

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asteroid_mining

Reference: http://www.deviantart.com/art/Athax-The-search-427787644

Leah Leiding: Assignment 1, Step 1 Final

1.  In the future, there will be no need to transport water to regions without easy access. Instead dew absorbent blankets will be laid around desert and dry lands that will take in any moisture from the air providing water anywhere is the world.

Source: Dew Bank

http://cdn.c.photoshelter.com/img-get2/I0000f.ixQmoz73Q/fit%3D1000x750/20070726-NAM0528.jpg

2. Monthly water bills will soon be a thing of the past.  In 50 years, water used in houses will only need to be purchased once because houses will be built with their own orbital water purifying systems, providing clean water every day.

Source: Orbital Systems

http://kmcintyre1.blogspot.com/2012/11/erik-johansson-impossible-photography.html

3.  A serum injected into defendants, designed to force the person to answer truthfully, will be used in court trials ending wrongful convictions in the next 100 years.  As global tensions increase, this same serum will be used in interrogations of terrorists.

Source: Divergent by Veronica Roth

http://thefairbanksfour.files.wordpress.com/2011/11/interrogation3.jpg

4. In less than 50 years, cars that drive themselves will be put on the market.  In 100 years, that is all that will be available, evolving the pace of daily life and the way that cities are built.

Source: Autonomous car

5. In 100 years, a camera ball with navigational abilities will be used in house fires to detect if any humans or animals are trapped inside so that firefighters can be more efficient and safe.

Source: Panono

http://www.aikencolon.com/assets/images/fluke/thermalimagers/ti125-110-100/Fluke-TI-Series-Building-Diagnostics-Infrared-Camera.jpg

6. Siri can hear what you say and transfer it to your phone screen, but in 50 years a wearable chip that accesses your brain waves will follow your thoughts to transfer them to your phone without you ever opening your mouth or using your hands.

Source: http://www.awgp.org/global/user_images/New-Thought.jpg

7. As 3D printing and medicine progress, the two will be combined to print organs for transplant patients using the own patients DNA.  In a few hundred years, this technology will become so advances, that whole human beings will be printable.

Source: Grey's Anatomy

http://i.huffpost.com/gen/1143836/thumbs/o-HUMAN-CLONING-facebook.jpg

8. With the research in hydroponics advancing, in 100 years, every major city will have "green skyscrapers" that aid in reducing carbon dioxide in the atmosphere as well as bring organic life back into the cities.

Source: Hydroponics

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9. In a few 100 years, social classes will have become so extreme that the upper class will make use of metamaterials essentially "erasing themselves" from the world and creating their own nation in absolute privacy.

Source: Metamaterials

http://memediary.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/this-mirror-building-is-almost-invisible.jpg

10. Aerogels are claimed to be the lightest solid in the world, but a new proposal suggests that they can clean up oil spills with their absorbent qualities.  In 50 years, this carbon aerogel will be able to not only absorb oil, but other pollutants to our seas.

Source: Aerogel

http://farm7.staticflickr.com/6051/6342209693_c33e554811_z.jpg

Leif Seifert: visualBlog: step 1: The Sequel: The Remake: Remastered

1. In the future, the fascination with reality TV grows until the point where literally every person on earth is filmed constantly for the entertainment of everyone else.

site:  http://www.vh1.com/



2. Subsequent to their planetary colonization, humans undergo speciation consequent of  the varying habitats in which they exist.  


Source: The X-men



3. In the future, the human population will become so dense that cities develop in levels, with people occupying upper (suspended above ground) and lower (underground) Burroughs.

 
Source: Deus Ex


4. In the future, miniature self propelled cameras will fly about and record the actions of every single person on earth.
 

Source: super mario 64


5.  In the future, humans will possess complete control over the elements through the use of nano technology.
 
Source: boosterdesigns.com


6. In the future, global communication and travel will have become so common place that the majority of people on earth will speak a new hybrid language consisting of English and mandarin Chinese.
 
Source : http://www.bbc.co.uk



7. In response to humanities escalating encroachment on nature, the human race will diverge and evolve into two factions; waging war on each other over the ideologies of natural preservation versus domination.

source: The WWF



8. By the year 2200, the human race will have taken to the stars and abandoned earth, leaving behind only those deemed intellectually unworthy. The remaining population will fall to the inevitability of extinction, lest their leader Terry Cruise can rise to the challenge, and lead his people into a new golden age of humanity on earth.

Source: Fox Studio's



9. Eventually, science and medicine will advance to the point where people literally can not grow older. This new youth would be the death of seemingly needless cosmetic companies, were it not for the newly developed fad of looking and feeling older than ones self, made possible by Aging Cream: from Loreal.

source: Guy Pearce + Loreal





10.  In the future there will be an absolute 0 tolerance for crime, as a new breed of law enforcement cracks down on all those who would threaten the balance of  civilization, headed up by non other than than a talking robot dog.


Source: Power Rangers

Sam Owens - Step 1

Fragment 1 Portal Gun:

A device that creates multiple portals in which people or objects can travel between instantly, which in later years will eliminate other means of transportation.

Reference: Portal (video game)

Fragment 2 Dream Share:

A machine that connects to the users subconscious that allows them to control their dreams or share them with others.  This technology could lead to people dividing their time between reality and dreams or living mostly in one or the other.

Reference: Inception (movie)

Fragment 3 Motion Capture:

The technology to make a machine or cgi element follow the user’s movements accurately.  A robot following a human’s actions could perform tasks in which humans could not do physically themselves.

Reference Real Steel(movie), Pacific Rim(movie)

Fragment 4 Holographic Interfaces:

A computer that displays information not on a screen but through projection that allows the user to interact with it directly.  Once it becomes portable, everyone would be able to use it anywhere conveniently.

Reference: Mass Effect (video game)

Fragment 5 Robotic Prosthetics:

Prosthetics made out of synthetic materials that are controlled by the user’s nervous system, and function as good as or better than the original body part.  Some people might amputate themselves to get these stronger limbs.

Reference: Deus Ex Human Revolution( video game), Fullmetal Alchemist (anime)

Fragment 6 Hoverboard:

A transportation device that is powered by jets which travels above the ground at fast speeds and is easy to transport when not in use.  It becomes a quick form of travel and could be used for extreme sports.

Reference: Spiderman (moive/comic)

Fragment 7 Virtual Reality:

A reality created through a computer that can change a user’s environment to anything he/she wants which allows the user to enjoy scenery he/she cannot normally or easily visit.  This would lower tourism since anyone could visit anywhere inside their virtual reality room.

Reference: Star Trek (TV show)

Fragment 8 Warp Drive:

A device that allows space crafts to travel faster than light allowing for deep space travel and exploration.  This could lead to finding new sources of life and colonization of new worlds for humans to live on.

Reference: Star Trek (TV show)

Fragment 9 Cloning:

Creating humans, animals, or objects of exact dna of an original host which can be used for organ transplants, preventing species from becoming extinct, and creates copies of priceless artifacts.

Reference: The Island (movie)

Fragment 10 Anti-Matter:

A fuel that creates an enormous amount of thrust with a small amount of resources, which will not take up and destroy the earth’s resources and destroy the environment.  In the future it could be developed to power machines other than for space travel.

Reference: Star Trek (TV show)

Trey Chavez - Step 1 continued

• Miracle drug cures cancer; causes some to develop super powers.
• Hour Man

• Augmented reality is so ubiquitous that people are unaware of the extent to which their reality is distorted.
• What Happens If Google’s Glasses Are Evil?

• Multiple cameras affixed all over the body increase visual perception by feeding information directly to the brain, but cause strange and unforeseen changes in human physiology.
• Artist forced to remove head camera implant

• Humans gain the ability to communicate with plants, who reveal information about God.
• The Secret Life of Plants
• Psychobotany

• "Dream-viewing" technology becomes available but people suddenly stop having dreams.
• Vision Reconstruction

• WikiLeaks reveals transcripts of communication between the United States Government and a 900 year old human living on Mars.
• Have We Already Colonized Mars?

• Scientists are able to directly manipulate a person's thoughts, which is hailed by the media as a way to cure the mentally ill.
• Researcher remotely controls colleague's body with brain

• A new drug enables humans to grow teeth indefinitely, but they become increasingly fang-like and eventually begin growing in strange places.
• Scientists Grow Teeth From Gum Cells

• When talent becomes downloadable, a rapid spate of human evolution ensues, followed by boredom.
• Soon, You May Download New Skills to Your Brain

• Conveniences and commodities of modern life contribute to extreme urban isolation, causing human beings to devolve into feral creatures.
• High Rise by J. G. Ballard