COMPUTER

1987 - The first laptop successful on a large scale by U.S. Air Force
1989 - Macintosh Portable
1995 - Windows 95

INTERNET,WWW,Virtual networks

1991 - The precursor to Wi-Fi was invented by NCR Corporation / AT&T
2005 FEB- youtube
1993 - First Web magazine , The virtual journal,is published but fails commercially
1993 – Commercial providers were allowed to sell internet connections to indivisuals

POLITICS,SOCIETY,SECURITY

2002 - The total number of CCTV cameras in the UK is around 4,200,000

TECHNOLOGY

2005 - Closed Circuit Digital Photography (CCDP) can take 1600*1200 pixel resolution image
1995 - DVD
1988 - The first true camera that recorded images as a computerized file was likely the Fuji Ds – 1p
1987 - vision correction laser
1993 - Global Positioning System
1997 - Non-mechanical, Digital Audio Player

TERRORISM

2005 - London bombing

COMMERCIAL

2004 – In New York city , a yahoo! Autos promotion displayed on an LED billboard allowed one to call phone number with a cellphone and play a two-person racing game on the billboard
1990s early – The mobile billboard industry

HEALTH / MEDICINE

1997 - Viagra : Pfizer Inc
2006 – The world first ever cancer vaccine

Close-ups

Sketch for Knowledge Network

Here is a draft for an organizational model based on knowledge networks.
All nodes (and their edges) are color-coded according to the category of their topics.
Edge thickness indicates the level of connection between two topics.

This image is created using Silobreaker's Network Search and Adobe Photoshop, as
a sketch for the organizational model being developed by me. I am going to try to
script it using Processing to automate the process of creating the network so that we
could put more data into it in shorter time and to give it more functions (e.g. short
descriptions as tooltips) and add other parameters to the diagram (e.g. Time).


By the way, I found out about Silobreaker in VisualComplexity.com.

Network Culture

"Fredric Jameson's classic description of Postmodernism as the cultural logic of late capitalism is now well over twenty years old. Jameson's analysis is crucial for understanding late twentieth century thinking, but in the intervening years, culture has changed radically. .."

source: http://varnelis.net/network_culture

BRAINSTORM, 2nd

Second part of the group-brainstorm.
(Isolde, John, Pu-Ming, Sofia, Steffie, Timea)






See what's on the wall:

BRAINSTORM, 1st

so here is the first draft. i'm sure there is more... ;)